Conrad Collection

THE GIFT TO DARTMOUTH COLLEGE of a 72-volume collection of Joseph Conrad first editions from George Matthew Adams, author and book collector of New York City, was announced by President Hopkins on October 15. Mr. Adams presented this rare and valuable collection through the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, as a memorial to his father, the late Rev. George Matthew Adams. Mr. Adams is the father of George Matthew Adams Jr. '31 of Washington, D. C.

Another valuable collection recently presented to the College through the Friends of the Dartmouth Library is the Aldous Huxley collection of too items received from Richard H. Mandel '26 of New York City, who previously gave the College his collection of H. L. Mencken first editions. Each of the hundred books by or about Huxley is a first edition.

Every book written by Conrad is represented in the Adams Collection in mint condition and in the first edition. The gift also includes a number of association copies and books about Conrad, together with a manuscript letter from Conrad to Edward Garnett, a lithograph portrait of Conrad by Carton Mooreparke, an etching of Conrad by Walter Tittle, and a deluxe edition of the catalog of the Keating Collection of Conrad at Yale.

Among the rarer items in the Adams gift are a very fine presentation copy of Reminiscences" from Conrad to Edward Carnett, a presentation copy of the rare w edition of "Twixt Land and Sea" r°m Conrad to Gordon S. Maxwell, and a COPy of the extremely rare, privately printed Notes on Life and Letters," of ich there were only thirty-three copies.

Ie lithograph portrait of Conrad was rawn by Carton Mooreparke when the mous author visited America in 1923.