Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF
 

Beshenkovsky gift. Mr. Eugene Beshenkovsky has presented a copy
of Sobesednik liubitelei rossiiskago slova ("Interlocutor for Lovers of
the Russian Word: Containing Various Works in Poetry and Prose
of Some Russian Authors"), 1784, part XV of a literary journal
published by Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg.

Borchardt gift. For addition to the papers of their literary agency,
Mr. and Mrs. Georges Borchardt have donated approximately
42,000 letters, contracts, copyright and royalty statements, and
related documents for the period, 1955-1986. There are files for
French, English, and American publishers, agents, and authors,
including Jean Anouilh, James Agate, Laurent de Brunhoff, Jean
Cocteau, Penelope Gilliatt, Robert Graves, Ruth Rendell, Frangoise
Sagan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alan Sillitoe, and Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin.

Chrystiegift. Mr. Thomas L. Chrystie (A.B., 1955) has donated fif¬
teen editions of literary and historical works, including Jefferson
Davis, The rise and Fall ofthe Confederate Government, New York,
1881; Henry W Herbert, Frank Forester's and Horsemanship ofthe
United States and British Provinces of North America, New York,
1857; and Hardouin de Beaumont de Perefixe, Histoire du Roi
Henri Le Grand, Paris, 1786.

Coggeshall gift. Mrs. Susanna Coggeshall has donated approxi¬
mately five thousand letters and manuscripts to the collection of
papers of her mother, the late Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor
under President Franklin Roosevelt. Included in the gift are family
and professional correspondence, personal notes and memoranda,
documents and memorabilia, manuscripts for articles and lectures,
and family photographs.
 

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