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tion of Whistleriana, which was augmented by their second gift in 1921, has been still further enriched by recent additions. The material received, besides books, pamphlets, catalogues, and six volumes of newspaper clippings relating to Whistler, includes some 136 letters written by him to William Heinemann.

Mrs. Ida Husted Harper of New York City, who was the literary executor of the late Mrs. May Wright Sewall, has presented to the Library 185 volumes, 136 pamphlets, and 194 photographs and prints from the library of Mrs. Sewall, the gift representing the latter's special interest and work in behalf of women.

Among other gifts were: From Miss Lucy E. Anthony, Moylan, Pa., five volumes, three of them from the library of Susan B. Anthony, the other two from the library of Rachel Foster Avery; from Mrs. Hamilton M. Barksdale, New York City, a copy of the volume entitled “Barksdaledu Pont and allied families"; from the Hon. William E. Borah, United States Senate, the two volumes forming the catalogue of the Bachstitz Gallery; from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, one of 123 copies of "Invocation," by John Masefield, printed by the Laboratory Press of the Carnegie Institute; from Mr. William Andrews Clark, jr., Los Angeles, Calif., a copy (No. 36) privately printed of Shelley's “Adonais,” together with a copy of the reproduction of the Pisa edition of the poem, and also a copy (No.69) supplementary to the Catalogue of Wilde and Wildeiana, in the library of Mr. Clark; from the Comité Cultural Català de New York, Lucretius "De la Naura," translated into the Catalan by Dr. Joaquim Balcells; from Mrs. D. I. Evans, Shenandoah, Pa., a collection of books in the Welsh language (65 volumes and 2 pamphlets), forming a part of the library of her husband, the late Rev. D. I. Evans; from Mr. William Farnsworth, Boston, Mass., a privately printed monograph, “The cemetery at Souain, dedicated to the members of the Foreign

Legion and other soldiers of France who fell near this spot GIFTS. in the battle of Champagne, September 25 to 29, 1915;" from Mr. Thomas S. Forsyth, Washington, D. C., a privately printed volume, "A history of the Forsyth family," compiled by Jennie Forsyth Jeffries, Indianapolis, Ind., 1920, and also a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, dated July 27, 1912; from the Hon. Francis P. Garvan, New York City, a copy of the volume entitled "Yale University, a plan for its future building," by John Russell Pope; from Miss Ann R. Gavett, Brookline, Mass., 19 additional volumes, supplementing the Henry James collection made by her sister, the late Mrs. Clarence W. Jones, and presented to the Library last year; from Señor A. González-Prada, first secretary, Peruvian Embassy, Washington, D. C., six volumes written by his father, Señor Manuel GonzálezPrada, together with a copy of the publication, "El Derecho y el animal;" from Mr. Charles F. Heartman, Metuchen, N. J., two copies of the new edition of his Bibliography of the New England Primer; from Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" in the original edition of 1734; from C. H. St. John Hornby, Esq., London, England, a copy of the facsimile edition of the Douce Apocalypse, published by the Roxburghe Club; from the Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Washington, D. C., an illustrated copy of "The Twenty-third Psalm;" from Mr. David G. Joyce, Chicago, Ill., a privately printed copy of "Diogenes at the Saville Club," by Robert Louis Stevenson; from Dr. Howard A. Kelly, Baltimore, Md., a copy of number four of an edition of 12 copies of "A synopsis of the accipitres," by H. Kirke Swann, second edition, London, 1922, privately printed on large hand-made paper, with 77 colored plates; from Miss Mary Leighton, Middleton, Mass., 10 volumes from the hand of her father, William Leighton; from Mrs. Luther S. Livingston, Cambridge, Mass., "Benjamin Franklin's Story of the whistle, with an

GIFTS. introductory note by Luther S. Livingston, and a bibliography to 1820," Cambridge, 1922; from Joseph H. Longford, Esq., London, England, a copy of his book now out of print, "The story of old Japan;" from Mr. Leonard L. Mackall, Savannah, Ga., a copy of Wendt's Musenalmanach for 1831, containing Goethe's poem "Den Vereinigten Staaten"; from Miss Cornelia I. Morgan, Washington, D. C., a collection of 80 volumes from the library of her father, the late Senator John T. Morgan, together with papers of Senator Morgan, documents, press clippings, speeches, and correspondence, covering the period 1878-1907; from Mr. F. M. Munroe, Huntington, N.Y., a copy of "Cinna. Tragedia de P. Cornellio," 1731; from Mrs. Clarence F. R. Jenne, president National Society United States Daughters of 1812, one of four copies of the "General entry book of American prisoners of war at Quebec;" from Mr. Charles C. Paulding, New York City, James K. Paulding's copy of "The Constitutions of the United States," 1806, with Paulding's autograph on the title page, his marginalia, and his bookplate; from Mrs. Charles W. Richardson, Washington, D. C., "The remarkable adventures of Jackson Johonnet," Providence, 1793, "A compleat body of distilling," by G. Smith, London, printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725, "A pathetic history of the plague in London in the year 1665," Portland, printed for William Edwards, 1806, "An Authentic narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Miss Eliza Bradley," Boston, printed by James Walden, 1820, and "Der güldene Schlüssel desz Alten, und der süsse Kern desz Newen Testaments," by Michael Walther, Nürnberg, Wolfgang Endter, 1646; from Mr. Walter Scott, New York City, a copy of “Vestiarium Scoticum, from the manuscript formerly in the library of the Scots College at Douay, with an introduction and notes by John Sobieski Stuart;" Edinburgh, William Tait, 1842; from the Right Honorable Lord Carmichael of Skirling, president of the

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, GIFTS. a copy of the volume entitled "The treasure of Traprain, A Scottish hoard of Roman silver plate," by Alexander O. Curle, Glasgow, 1923; from Dr. S. W. Stratton, Cambridge, Mass., a collection of the writings of the late Dr. Edward B. Rosa, 13 volumes, 63 pamphlets, and 19 photographic reproductions (negatives); from Mr. George F. Strong, Cleveland, Ohio, five miscellaneous volumes; from Capt. F. M. Van Natter, Washington, D. C., a copy of "Jeanne d'Alsace," by Capt. Joseph Mills Hanson, A. G. Printing Dept., G. H. Q., A. E. F.; from the Rev. V. J. Villaverde, president Rosaryville Theological Seminary, Pontachoula, Fla., a synopsis of the theses that a doctor in sacred theology was to defend, printed on pongee, Barcelona, 1701; from Mr. James Benjamin Wilbur, Manchester, Vt., photographic reproductions (negatives) of a collection of papers, mainly letters, relating to Ira Allen and other early settlers of Vermont, together with a photographic reproduction of a New Hampshire Legislative Journal of 1762; from Mr. David R. Williams, Utica, N. Y., five publications in the Welsh language; from Mr. William Frederic Worner, Lancaster, Pa., the Philadelphia Courier, 1840-1842, the Charleston, S. C., Mercury, 1860-1861, The United States Gazette, Philadelphia, 1823-1826; from Mr. George Parker Winship, Cambridge, Mass., seven photographic negatives of the record book of the Society for propagating the Gospel, additional to negatives earlier donated by him.

Gifts from publishers have continued of books supplied in connection with the printed card service; that is, for each book furnished a catalogue card is printed and an entry made in our catalogue as well as in the card proof circulating among subscribing libraries.

In the enumeration that follows of some of the more important purchases of the year, space does not permit, nor does the occasion require, an account or inventory of the

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acquisitions of ordinary current publications made in the usual course, which with manuscripts, music, maps, and prints,' form the bulk of our purchases. The survey here given, though necessarily restricted, is intended rather to show some of the results that have followed endeavors made to supplement and strengthen significant fractions within the larger unit.

As always, our interest in writings on American history is keen. If, for the moment, we do not take account of some early imprints, Leyden and Mexican, noted below, the earliest piece in this field that the fortunes of the year brought to us was a copy of “A discovrse and discovery of New-Found-Land," by Sir Richard Whitbourne, London, Felix Kingston, 1622. This is the second edition, enlarged to contain in addition to the material in the first edition, 1620, which the Library already possessed, Whitbourne's "Loving invitation," and, also, letters written from the "Province of Avalon" in Newfoundland, addressed to Sir George Calvert, the founder of the colony, who afterwards abandoned it in favor of Maryland.

To our set of the Jesuit Relations we have added the "Relation de ce qvi passé en la Novvelle France, és années 1657 & 1658," by Paul Ragueneau, Paris, Sebastian Cramoisy, 1659. This now gives us 34 out of the 41 relations in the original issue.

To our Indian treaties we have added "The particulars of an Indian treaty at Conestogoe, between his excellency, Sir William Keith, bart., governor of Pennsylvania, and the deputies of the Five Nations, in July, 1721,” Philadelphia, Andrew Bradford. This is the De Puy copy, originally from the library of Anthony Benezet, is one of the two copies known to exist, and its possession now gives us 24 out of the 50 original issues listed in Mr. De Puy's "Bibliog

1 For specialized material acquired either by purchase or through gift and not named in the pages that follow, see below under the reports of the divisions having the care of such material.