Mencken Manuscript

BAKER MEMORIAL LIBRARY announced early in February that H. L. Mencken had presented the College with the manuscript of Happy Days, the recently published autobiography of his youth. The gift, made through the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, will be placed in the Treasure Room along with the Mandel collection of Mencken items given to the College last year.

Other manuscripts and typescripts received by Baker Memorial Library in recent months include the English writings of Sheila Kaye-Smith, A. G. Strong, Compton Mackenzie, Claude Houghton, R. H. Mottram, A. E. Coppard, Havelock Ellis, Edmund Blunden, Ford Madox Ford, Llewelyn Powys, H. J. Massingham, Morley Roberts, Frank Swinnerton, and Eden Phillpotts. From American writers the Library has received manuscripts by Marjorie Rawlings, Paul de Kruif, Munro Leaf, Hamlin Garland, Raymond Pearl, Ernest Thompson Seton, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Waldemar Kaempffert.

Prof. Arthur Fairbanks '86, a generous donor of books to the Dartmouth librarv has augmented his previous donations by 504 volumes on Greek religion and my- thology; and Julian Hovey '16 has recently sent to the Library as a deposit a large collection of material relating to his father Richard Hovey '85. This Hovey material gathered by Mrs. Richard Hovey after the poet's death in igoo, had been in the possession of Willard Huntington Wright, better known as S. S. Van Dine, until his recent death. In all, there are two or three hundred pages of manuscript in Hovey's hand writing, much of it unpublished.