OuK Growing Collections
 

England and New York (London, 1676). Other
mapmakers included T.  C.  Lotter, William

Blaeu, and Emanuel Bowen.

Dreyfuss gift: Hugo Dreyfuss, on behalf of the
Dreyfuss-Glicenstein Foundation, generously
presented to the Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, an oil portrait on board of the twen¬
tieth-century Polish novelist Joseph Wittlin.
Wittlin was the subject of a conference held at
Columbia in September 1996, and his portrait
was featured in an exhibition organized in
the Library in conjunction with that confer¬
ence entitled Letters from Exile: Polish Writers
and Scholars.

Elizabeth Kane bequest: A great treasure was
added to the Library this fall when a large oil
portrait on canvas of the English poet and
statesman Sir Philip Sidney (1554—1586) was
received by bequest from the late Elizabeth
Kane. The portrait, painted by an unidentified
contemporary, shows a young, handsome, and
somewhat amused Sidney, dressed in black,
with his hand on his sword. It will hang in the
Donors Room, where Sidney will join his
fellow authors Dickens, Alexander Pope,
Walter Scott, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Hopkins gift: Frances L. Hopkins of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, presented to the Library a
group of papers relating to the Dawson case
againstjohnjay,Jr., in the nineteenth century.
These papers are a further enrichment of the
 

large Jay family papers collection held at
Columbia.

Jane Howard gift: The late Jane Howard, just
before her death from cancer early this fall,
added to her papers already in the Library
research files and manuscript drafts for her
books Please Touch, A Different Woman, Families,
and Margaret Mead. She also donated manu¬
scripts and notes for the series of profiles in
Tears Magazine entitled "Women for Lears."

League of Women Voters of the City of New York gift:
Marjorie Kelleher Shea delivered important
historical materials donated by the League of
Women Voters of the City of New York to add
to their collection in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library. Included among them
were a letter from President Woodrow Wilson
to Mary Garrett Hay, Chairman, NYC Woman
Suffrage Party, dated 8 November 1917,
rejoicing in the passage of the woman suffrage
amendiuent in New York State; a letter from
President Herbert Hoover to Carrie Chapman
Catt from 13 April 1932; and a note to the
League from Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
regretting his inability to attend a memorial
service for Katrina Ely Tiffany in 1927. A
further donation comprised files of clippings
and photographs, including some memorable
pictures of suffrage parades and rallies in New
York City and elsewhere in the state.