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coin Assassination. In addition, there are extensive files of handwrit¬
ten and typed transcripts and photocopies of numerous nineteenth-
century American letters, manuscripts, diaries, and documents
relating to the Civil War. The gift also includes material for other
published and unpublished writings by Mr. Roscoe, including The
Trent Affair, Drama in Black, Only in New England, and To Live and
Die in Dixie.

Sykes gift. From the library of the late Gerald Sykes, Mrs. Claire
Sykes has donated sixty-one volumes of fiction, poetry, and other
literary works, including several American first editions by James
Aldridge, Janet Frame, John Hawkes, and Randall Jarrell. Of special
interest are T S. Eliot's The Classics and the Man of Letters, London,
1942, in wrappers, and Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, Los
Angeles, 193 3, inscribed by the author. To her husband's papers,
Mrs. Sykes has added photographs, clippings, and approximately
fifty letters written primarily during the 1970s by editors, pub¬
lishers, and other writers to Sykes. Included is a letter from
Lawrence Durrell, dated Gard, France, July 18, 1983, regarding his
health, his feelings about aging, and their writings.

Tilton gift. Professor Emeritus Eleanor M. Tilton has donated to
the Rare Book and Manuscript Libary her professional papers and
library related to her teaching and research on Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and other nineteenth-century
English and American authors. Also in her library of more than two
thousand volumes are works on art, philosophy, and history. Of
particular note are two hundred rare editions including works by
James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Henry James,
Wallace Stevens, and Anthony TroUope. Included in the gift is Her¬
man Melville's Israel Potter, New York, 1855, third edition, signed
by Melville's brother Allan; James Russell Lowell's copy of George

Opposite: Thistle device from Ducks & Green Peas (Lohf gift)