Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Anonymous gift. An important collection of approximately seventy
items relating to Joseph Urban has been received from an anony¬
mous donor, including Urban's typewritten scenario, embellished
with six detailed watercolor sketches, for the Metropolitan Opera's
1924 production of Tales of Hoffman; Hans Christian Andersen's
Fairy Tales with an extra suite of prints, published in 1910 by
M. Munk in Vienna, and illustrated by Heinrich Lefler and Urban;
a scrapbook of clippings and leaflets pertainingto the opening of the
Wiener Werkstaette showroom in New York in January 1922; and
photographs of Urban and his wife, Mary, and of buildings in
Florida designed by Urban.

Association of American University Presses gift. The association has
donated, for inclusion in the depository set in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, the sixty-eight volumes that were selected for
the 1990-1991 Book Show as being the highest quality books pub¬
lished during that year.

Barrett gift. Mrs. Marie H. M. Barrett has presented letters and doc¬
uments pertainingto the Hamilton family of which she is a descen¬
dant: an autograph letter written by the grandson of Alexander
Hamilton, John Cornehus Adrian Hamilton, to his mother, Maria
Eliza Van den Heuvel Hamilton, dated Detroit, July 30, 1845; two
letters written by Alexander Hamilton (1815-1907) to his father
John Church Hamilton, dated New York, June 28 and August 3,
1866, concerning the construction of the Hamilton Building at
229 Broadway in New York City; and a group of documents, both
printed and in photocopy, dated 1916, relating to the estate of
Adelaide Hamilton, the last child of John Church Hamilton and
Maria Eliza Van den Heuvel.

Bronk gift. Mr. William Bronk has presented a collection of thirty-
two letters that he wrote to his sister, Elizabeth, during the Second
World War while serving in the U. S. Army as a noncommissioned
 

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