OUR  GROWING   COLLECTIONS
 

RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT
LIBRARY

Biitfher Cijl: Philip Butcher, a scholar and literan'
historian who has written extensivelv on George
Washington Cable, Adelene Moffat, Sterling A.
Browne, and William Stanley Braithwaite added
several boxes of books, manuscripts, and corre¬
spondence to the personal papers already in the
Library. In addition, he donated typed copies
of the diaries and journals he kept during his
military service in World War II, along with
supporting correspondence and clippings, some
300 pages in all of documentation of the war expe¬
rience.

l.aiin'ynmko Cif: The Rare Book and Manuscript
Library was pleased to add to its collections more
than twenty-eight linear feet of papers and
records from the Ukrainian literary historian and
critic Yurii Lawrvnenko, a gift of Maria
Lawrynenko through her daughter Larissa
Lawrynenko. Along with copies of his many arti¬
cles and his 1985 memoir, Choma purha (The
Black Blizzard), the personal archives include
audio tapes of his broadcasts for Radio Free
Europe and materials deriving from his docu¬
mentation of Displaced Person camps in the years
following World War II.
 

Kelleher Cdfl: Mary Moore Kelleher added to her
earlier donations of the papers and artifacts of her
father, the composer and Columbia professor
Douglas Moore, several amusing programs and
documents recording Moore's participation in
amateur summer theater as a high school student,
as well as his handwritten log, or record book,
written as an adult, of the performances of his
early works.

Kciiiif'dy lif'qai'sl: The late Sighle Kennedy
bequeathed to Columbia her research and study
collection of items related to Irisli literature in
general and Samuel Beckett in particular,
including several autograph letters to her from
the novelist-playwright. Ms. Kennedy spent mucli
of her life investigating the impact of Dante on
Beckett. Her legacy, which included as well the
books, monographs and correspondence about
the topic she had assembled since her years as a
graduate student at C'olumbia, promises to
provide a useful resource for those engaged in
similar topics of study in modern literature.

Lalouche I'urcliasr: Proceeds from the endow¬
ment established in memory' of the late Brander
Matthews, a member of the Columbia English
Department faculty from 1891 until 1924 and the
first professor of drama in the United States,
allowed the Libraiy to purchase an important
group of papers and diaries of the lyricist John