Our Gro"wing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF
 

Butcher gift. More than two hundred books, issues of periodicals, and
files of clippings and typescripts have been received from Professor
Philip Butcher (Ph.D., 1956) pertaining to his literary researches and
writings on George Washington Cable, black writers, and contempo¬
rary social and literary history.

Coovergift. Nineteen rare editions and five autograph letters and man¬
uscripts in the fields of literature, belles lettres, and fine printing, dat¬
ing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been
donated by Mr. Christopher Coover (M.S. in L.S., 1983). Among
the group are fine copies of publications by Robert Browning, John
Addington Symonds, Henry W. Longfellow, George Meredith,
John Nash, Tennyson, and Rabelais, among others. Of special note
are; Robert Browning's An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley, London,
1888; Lord Tennyson's The May Queen, London, 1880, with chro¬
molithographs by L. Summerbell; and a volume of tracts and pam¬
phlets printed by or for the Blandford bookseller, printer, and binder,
John Shipp, including an otherwise unrecorded printing of A/z Ode
on Our Saviour's Nativity, published by Shipp in 1826.

Curtis Brown Ltd. gift. Nearly seven thousand letters, manuscripts,
and contracts, dating from the 1950s through the 1980s, have been
added by Curtis Brown Ltd. to the collection of their papers.
Included are files of Perry Knowlton and Curtis Brown Management
Ltd., a subsidiary theatrical agency, and numerous letters from Louis
Auchincloss, Gilbert Highet, Jacqueline Onassis, and Ogden Nash,
among other writers.

Furman University Library gift. Knowing of our extensive collection
of Alexander Hamilton manuscripts and correspondence, Furman
University Library, through the suggestion and assistance of Hamil¬
ton family descendants, Mrs. Marie Hamilton Barrett and Mrs. Eliz¬
abeth Schuyler Campbell, have transferred to the Collection several
 

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