Kenneth A. Lohf Collecting for Columbia                 11

column, "Our Growing Collections," which for some twenty-five
years has interested readers and pleased donors.

While Ken's service as secretary-treasurer provided the direction
and continued growth of the organization and its programs, he rem¬
inisced with great pleasure about the Council officers and members
with whom he was associated since the death in 1972 of Charles
Mixer, who had served previously in that office. "The Friends have
been fortunate in having the support of so many fine collectors and
bibliophiles, and those who were the major forces in organizing the
group in 1951, among them the Viscountess Eccles and yourself
Dallas, have done a great service to the Libraries in inspiring that
support. Later notable officers of the Friends, among them Alan H.
Kempner, Morris H. Saffron, Gordon N. Ray, and Frank Streeter
have continued that tradition with distinction. In addition, donors
have been especially generous in entrusting us with their family
papers and their treasures, and many of these donors have over the
years become my personal friends, such as Lira Hornick, George
M. Jaffin, Corliss Lamont, Jack Harris Samuels, lola Haverstick,
and Louise Woods, among many, many others. All of them have
enriched my professional and personal lives more fully than I can
ever express."

I continued with my questions: "Ken, the Council of the Friends
is continually astounded at their meetings by your reports of vast
collections of papers and books which have been donated. Running
through the catalogue, I note the Samuels Collection of two hun¬
dred volumes of seventeenth-centurv English drama (17); the
Carnegie Corporation Papers (60); the Community Service Society
Papers and the large group of early twentieth-century photographs
(62); the Harper & Row contracts, including many for the publica¬
tion of Herman MeK'ille's novels (41); and the Simon & Schuster
Papers, from which is exhibited Mrs. Schuster's gift of Beerbohm's
drawing of G. B. Shaw lecturing to the Fabian Society (59). Added
to these are the large collections of papers donated by literary
agents, notably James Oliver Brown and Paul Revere Reynolds. We