I     Our Growing  Collections
 

Somerville gifi: Mrs. John Somerville donated
files   and   manuscript   materials   produced

by her husband, the late Professor John
Somerville (B.A., 1926; M.A., 1929; Ph.D.,
1938).

Thompson gift: Susan Thompson (D.L.S.,
1975), long a faculty member of the School of
Library Service at Columbia, donated to the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library her profes¬
sional papers. Dr. Thompson's papers pertain
to a variety of topics relating to the history of
libraries, books, and library science in the
twentieth centurv and promise to be a rich
source for scholarship.

Webb gift: Margaret Webb gave to the hbrary
three interesting books: The Life of William
Wykeham (London, 1758), The Black Book of
Carmarthen (Pwllheli, 1906), and the first book
of a new press in the Orkney Islands, Bellavista
Publications of Kirkwall, Orkney, ScapaFlow in
Peace and War by W.S. Hewison.
 

Yefimov gift: Igor Yefimov, of Tenafly, New
Jersey,   added   materials   to   the   Hermitage

Publishers papers now in the Bakhmeteff
Archive, further strengthening both that
archive and the remarkable collection of
publishing papers and archives in the Library.

Purchases: Funds from Rare Book and
Manuscript Library endowments enabled
the Library to purchase a number of inter¬
esting books and several significant collec¬
tions of manuscripts this year, including the
George Economou-Rochelle Owens Papers,
the Vera Blackwell-Vaclev Havel Collection,
and the archives of Group Research, Inc., an
organization that for over thirty years
collected matrials relating to the activities of
ultra-conservative political groups in the
United States.
 

Weil gifts: James Weil has been engaged for
some years now in publishing the poetry of
William Bronk and of John Keats. This year,
donations from his press have included,
among others, Bronk's Missing Persons and
three works by Keats: The Nile, The Grasshopper
and the Cricket, and The Laurel Crown.
 

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