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numerous other subjects; the letters form an extraordinary record
of Kees's thoughts and activities during his most productive artistic
period. The gift also includes letters from the artist's wife, Ann
Kees, his father, John A. Kees, and the typographic designer Adrian
Wilson, as well as a group of printed ephemera relating to exhibi¬
tions of Kees's artwork.
 

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

David Alethf.a, associate professor of philosophy at the
University of Hawaii-West Oahu and author of works on
Denis Diderot and on the French structuralist movement,
had the advantage of numerous conversations with Lewis
Galantiere in the mid-sixties.

Kenneth A. Loi \i- is Columbia's Librarian for Rare Books
and Manuscripts.

Carol Z. Roihkopk, a free-lance editor and writer who
took her master's degree at Columbia in British literature
studying with William York Tindall, is editing The Selected
Letters of Edmund Blunden.

Barbara Schmiiz, whose catalogue Islamic Manuscripts in
the New York Public Library will appear later this year, is
currently preparing a catalogue of the Islamic manuscripts
and albums at the Morgan Library and is the recipient of a
1991-92 Fulbright Award for a nine-month visit to India
to do research for a book on eighteenth- and nineteenth-
century manuscripts and paintings made for the Muslim
courts.
 

ISSN 0010-1966
Photography by Manin Messik