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42                                  Kenneth A. Lohf

frey, Andrew Lang, James Montgomery, Robert Montgomery, and
George Thomson. Also donated was a rare eighteenth-century
book. The Tryal and Condemnation of Arundel Coke alias Cooke Esq;
and of John Woodbume Labourer, for Felony, printed in London in
1722 for John Darby and Daniel Midwinter.

Rothkopfgift. Mrs. Carol Z. Rothkopf (A.M., 1952) has donated a
series of 103 letters written in 1867 and 1868 by Gabriel
Bernheimer and Thekla Trautmann, grandparents of Marguerite A.
Cohn. Gabriel Bernheimer was a traveler in wines, spirits, and
tobacco, and the letters between him and his wife, written in
French, German, and English, reflect family concerns and the life
on the road which included stops in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Philadel¬
phia, Pittsburg, and numerous other towns in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Missouri.

Sievan gift. Mrs. Lee C. Sievan has donated fifty-three volumes,
comprising first English and American editions of the writings of
twentieth-century novelists and poets, including Lawrence Durrell,
James Jones, Frank O'Hara, Archibald MacLeish, and Dorothy
Parker, among others.

Taylor gift Mrs. Davidson Taylor has presented thirty-four photo¬
graphs of the novelist and short story writer Sophie Kerr for addi¬
tion to the collection of her papers. They provide a pictorial record
of Sophie Kerr's life over more than sixty years. In addition, Mrs.
Taylor has donated a letter written in 1961 by the poet John Hall
Wheelock to her and her late husband, Davidson Taylor, with a
holograph manuscript of a poem entitled "Song" on the attached
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