Gifts to Baker
IN his recent report covering the summer activities of The Friends of the Dartmouth Library, Prof. Herbert F. West 22, director and secretary, lists a number of alumni donors among those whose gifts to Baker made the summer quarter extremely successful.
Outstanding was the gift of Eugene J. Schwartz '33 of New York, who sent more than 4,000 volumes of 19th and 20th century English and American poetry. Ralph E. Samuel '13, also of New York, presented 69 George Bernard Shaw items of unique scholarly interest, including the only known copy of the 1913 pamphlet, Tothe Audience of the Kingsway Theatre.
Herbert F. Darling '26 of Eggertsville, N. Y., bought for the Library four rare volumes listed earlier by The Friends as desiderata. These are a complete copy of David Copperfield (1849-50) in the original parts, Thornton Wilder's The Cabala (1926), Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley'sPhilosophy (1900) and an early edition of Crevecoeur's Letters from an AmericanFarmer.
From Edgar A. Hill '24 of Oldwick, N. J., came more than a hundred first editions, all mint copies, of the works of the three Sitwells, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and others of the Bloomsbury Group.
Harold G. Rugg '06, Associate Librarian Emeritus, gave 79 items by or about Robert Frost, many of them inscribed to Mr. Rugg. Captain Raynolds Drake '49, USAF, presented a valuable collection of World War I material; and Donald B. Hopkins '26 of Upper Montclair, N. J., in memory of his son, Nathaniel R. 2nd '54, continued to build up a fine collection of the poet Wallace Stevens.
Other alumni among the summer's donors were Warren Agry '11, Lyman Armes '12, Robert G. Clarke '15, Robert M. Stecher '19, Dr. Radford Tanzer '25, William A. Breyfogle '28, John J. Lyman '28, W. H. Ferry '32 and Peter O, Stamats '51.
