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Cardozo gift. In a recent gift, Mr. Michael H. Cardozo has added to
the Benjamin N. Cardozo Papers a group of seven letters written by
the Supreme Court Justice to various relatives from 1930 to 1935.
Justice Cardozo writes at length in the letters, numbering some
twenty-one pages, about various law schools and legal education, as
well as his own experiences as a student and other family matters.

Chase ^ft. Mrs. Frances Walker Chase has presented, for addition to
the collection of her late husband. Professor Richard Volney Chase
(Ph.D., 1946), a first edition of Robert Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle,
published in 1946 by Harcourt, Brace. The copy of the author's sec¬
ond book of poems, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, is auto¬
graphed by the author on the half-title.

Congdon gift. Mr. Don Congdon has established a collection of
papers of the literary agency, Don Congdon Associates, Inc., which
he founded in 198 3. The initial gift comprised some 11,400 items of
correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, and contracts document¬
ing the editing and publishing, serial rights, dramatic rights, foreign
rights, and copyright of numerous American and English books.
Included are extensive files of letters and contracts pertaining to Ray
Bradbury, Lillian Hellman, William Manchester, William L. Shirer,
William Styron, and Frangois Truffaut.

Davis gift. The coUeaion of chess books formed by the late Royal
Stanton Davis (M.D., 1932) has been presented in his memory by his
widow Mrs. Marian Davis. Comprising 107 volumes, nearly five
hundred issues of periodicals, and two scrapbooks of newspaper clip¬
pings of chess plays, the collection is strong in works published at the
end of the nineteenth and during the early decades of the twentieth
centuries.

Goodrich gft. Nearly 12,000 manuscripts and pieces of correspon¬
dence have been added to the papers of the late Professor L. Car-
rington Goodrich (A.M., 1927; Ph.D., 1934) by his widow Mrs.
Anne Goodrich. In addition to letters written to him by Pearl S.