Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Adams estate gift. From the estate of the late James Truslow Adams
(Litt.D., 1924) more than 2,300 pieces of correspondence, manu¬
scripts, and memorabilia have been received, including: a portion of
the typewritten manuscript of An American Family, extensively
corrected; five scrapbooks of clippings by and about Adams; a file of
condolence letters received by Mrs. Adams on her husband's death
in 1949; and files of correspondence with public figures, academics,
writers, and personal friends. The latter files contain letters from
Norman Cousins, Bing Crosby, Thomas E. Dewey, J. Edgar
Hoover, Cordell Hull, E. F Hutton, Lillian Hellman, Charles
Morgan, Allen Nevins, Rex Stout, Mark Van Doren, and William
A. White. Also presented by the estate is an oil portrait of Adams
painted in 193 3 by P. W Muncy.

Blake gift. Mrs. Edith Blake has donated, for addition to the papers
of her late husband, Henry Beetle Hough (B.Litt., 1918), the
printer's typescript and master galleys, both with corrections and
emendations, of his autobiography, Soundings at Sea Level, pub¬
lished in 1980 by Houghton Mifflin.

Brown gift. Mr. James Oliver Brown has presented first editions of
Charles Scribner's In the Company of Writers, and Herbert Gold's
Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti and Travels in San Francisco,
each of which is inscribed to him by the authors.

Canade gift. Knowing of the extensive collection of papers of the
poet William Bronk held in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
the artist Eugene G. Canade has donated 13 0 autograph letters and
eleven autograph and typewritten manuscripts that he has received
from Mr. Bronk. Forming an important biographical record cover¬
ing the past fifty years, the letters deal with the poet's writings and
publications, mutual friends, work by other writers, personal mat¬
ters, and current literary activities and plans; with many of the let¬
ters Mr. Bronk has enclosed drafts and typescripts of recent poems.
 

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