Christmas Gift

As A CHRISTMAS GIFT to the College, . George Matthew Adams, a member of the executive committee of the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library and father of George Matthew Adams Jr. '31, presented the library with his collection of 24 first editions of the works of H. M. Tomlinson. The collection is complete, with the exception of two or three association items, and practically every volume in it is in mint condition.

Mr. Adams' latest donation to the College library is only one of many collections of first editions of- noted authors which he has presented. His most recent gifts include a 32-volume collection of Vachel tindsay; a collection Of the works of the naturalist, Richard Jefferies; a collection of the writings of Michael Fairless; a fine copy of Meredith's Evan Harrington in three volumes; and a four-volume illustrated Jarvis edition of Don Quixote in the original boards. Earlier he gave his Conrad, Melville and Walt Whitman collections to Dartmouth.

Besides Mr. Adams' gifts, the College has also received recently through the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library other valuable items. Edward K. Robinson '04 has presented the Library with reprints and one original of the Wheelock Narratives. K enneth Roberts has presented the page proofs of his novel Oliver Wiswell and the manuscript of 400 Songs for theBoys in the Back Room. Frederick G. Schmidt '45, a member of the undergraduate Daniel Oliver Associates, has given the rare first edition of Whitman's Franklin Evans or the Inebriate which first appeared in the November 1842 edition of "The New World."