Adams Collection

GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS, New York author and book collector who last fall gave the College a rare collection of Joseph Conrad first editions, has made another generous addition to Dartmouth's library treasures by presenting the College with a 29-volume collection of Herman Melville first editions. Mr. Adams made his gift through the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, of which he is an executive committee member, and designated it as a memorial to his father, the late Reverend George Matthew Adams, in whose memory the Conrad collection was also presented.

Among the rarer volumes in the Herman Melville collection is a first American edition of Moby Dick, into which an autographed Melville letter has been bound. The two-volume edition of Clarel, even rarer than Moby Dick, is included, together with scarce first editions of Typee, FiftyYears Exile, Omoo, and The ConfidenceMan. The collection is in excellent condition and is protected with handsome leather slip cases. It has been placed in the Hough Treasure Room of the Library where the George Matthew Adams Collection of Conrad first editions is also located.

Other gifts to Baker Library recently have included a collection of typescripts and printed editorials from H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, adding to the valuable contributions which the noted American author and journalist has made to Dartmouth in the past. Harry Goldman '16 of New York City has presented the College with signed letters of Eleazar Wheelock and his son John Wheelock, and has also given a collection of modern autographs. Through the generosity of Mrs. Charles R. Mattson of Overbrook, Pa., the College has also recently acquired twenty autographed letters of Daniel Webster. These cover the early period of 1801 to 1818 and make an especially valuable addition to the Webster material in possession of the College.

A number of Dartmouth alumni have continued to remember the Library with desirable gifts of manuscripts, first editions, and other rare items. They include Fred Lewis Pattee '88, Basil O'Connor '12, Robert F. Leavens '01, Edgar A. Hill '24, Richard S. Flirschland '35, Thomas B. Curtis '32, William C. Harrington '28, John C. Sterling '11, Albert B. Tootell '99, Warde Wilkins '13, Howard F. Dunham '11, Robin Robinson '24, and Herbert F. West '22.

Fdward C. Newman '42 and his father, A. C. Newman, have contributed to the Library's rarities, and Robert Frost '96 has given an unpublished manuscript poem, A Letter to Ezra Pound. Other gifts have been received from Mrs. Bella C. Landauer of New York, Mrs. Margaret BourkeWhite Caldwell, Winston Churchill, Willard Connely, Owen Lattimore, Cornelius Weygandt, Prof. Howard Meneely of the Dartmouth faculty, Mrs. Henry H. Townshend of New Haven, and Mrs. Mira Maclay of Berkeley, Calif.

To VISIT WEST COAST Dean E. Gordon Bill, whose alumni tourin late March and early April will lake himas far West as California.