Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Banner gift. Mr. James M. Banner, Jr. (Ph.D., 1968), has donated
the notes he kept as a graduate student in 1960-1961 of the lectures
of Professors Shepard B. Clough (The French Revolution), Peter
Gay (The Age of the French Revolution), Garrett Mattingly (The
Age of Expansion), and Richard B. Morris (Colonial America).

Borchardt gift. Mr. and Mrs. Georges Borchardt have donated for
addition to the collection of papers of their literary agency approxi¬
mately eighteen thousand letters, manuscripts, and contracts relat¬
ing to English, American, and French authors, publishers, and
other agents, dating from the period 1971 to 1986. Among the
author files are papers relating to the publications of Michel Butor,
John Gardner, Penelope GUliat, Norman Podhoretz, and Elizabeth
Sprigge.

Braden gift. Mr. William Braden has presented a group of approxi¬
mately seventy-five letters written by his father and grandfather,
Spruille Braden and Colonel William Braden, respectively, during
the period 193 3-1935 when his father and grandfather were serv¬
ing on various diplomatic assignments in South America.

Bronk gift. Nearly twelve hundred pieces of correspondence and
manuscripts have been donated by the poet William Bronk for addi¬
tion to the collection of his papers. There are approximately one
thousand letters to Mr. Bronk from his publisher, James Weil, and
groups of letters from Robert Creeley, Cid Corman, Samuel French
Morse, W. H. Auden, and Eugene Canade, dating from the late
1930s to the 1980s. There are two notebooks containing hand¬
written drafts of his essay, "Silence and Henry Thoreau," which
was published by Mr. Bronk in The Brother in Elysium, and twelve
autograph and typewritten drafts of poems dating from the 1940s.