Our Growing Collections

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Abrahamsen gift. Dr. David Abrahamsen has presented the archive
of research papers pertaining to the famous Jack the Ripper murder
case of 1888-89 which he collected in connection with the writing
of his book. Murder and Madness: The Secret Life of Jack the Ripper In
addition to the manuscript and research papers relating to the book,
the gift includes an important collection of copies of documents
from Scotland Yard and the various hospitals and institutions in
England that participated in the original case, the group comprising
more than 1,600 pages of contemporary police reports, testimony,
and forensic evidence. Dr. Abrahamsen's gift also includes books
dealing with the famous series of gruesome murders, as well as a set
of Moses Mendelsohn's Philosophischen schriften, Vienna, 1783, in
two volumes.

Butcher gift. In a recent gift Professor Philip Butcher (Ph.D., 1956)
has added to the collection of his papers eleven printed items and
approximately seventy-five letters and other pieces of correspon¬
dence pertaining to his research on black writers and his associa¬
tions with professional organizations.

Caldwell gift. Professor Patricia Lee Caldwell has presented, for
addition to the Ellery Queen Collection, thirty-five volumes of the
Queen novels by her late father, Manfred B. Lee, which he
co-authored with Frederic Dannay. Twenty-six of the volumes pre¬
sented are inscribed by Manfred Lee to members of his family, and
they include the following rare and scarce first editions: The Roman
Hat Mystery, 1929; The Dutch Shoe Mystery, 1931; The Tragedy ofX:
A Drury Lane Mystery, 1932; The Chinese Orange Mystery, 1934;
The Spanish Cape Mystery, 1935'; The Four of Hearts, 1938; Calamity
Town, \9\2; There Was an Old Woman, \9 M; The Murderer Is a Fox,
1945; Ten Days' Wonder, 1948; and Cat of Many Tales, 1949. Later
novels in the gift are: Double, Double: A New Novel of Wrightsville,
 

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