Activities of the Friends

Finances. For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 1991, the
general purpose contributions totaled $40,132, a twenty percent
increase over the previous year. Special purpose gifts, designated for
book and manuscript purchases, for the establishment of new
endowments, and for the increase of the principals of established
endowments, amounted to $73,111. The appraised value of gifts in
kind received from individual Friends for the same period was
$158,331. The total of all gifts and contributions since the establish¬
ment of the Friends in 1951 now stands at $9,062,009.

Fall reception. The Arthur Rackham exhibition will open with a
members preview reception on Wednesday afternoon, December
4, from 5 to 7 o'clock, in the Kempner Room in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library. On view will be more than one hundred paint¬
ings, watercolors, drawings, sketchbooks, and prints acquired over
the past twenty-five years since the Rackham centenary exhibition
was held in Low Library in 1967; in addition, highlights from the
centenary exhibition will also be shown, including the Rackham oil
self-portrait, early landscape drawings, a sketchbook for Mid¬
summer Night's Dream, and original illustrations for the artist's
most imponant book publications.

Future meetings. A reception on Wednesday afternoon, March 4,
1992, will open the spring exhibition, and the annual Bancroft
Awards Dinner will be held in the Rotunda of Low Memorial
Library on Wednesday evening, April 1, 1992.
 

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