COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS

News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• Antioch University,Yellow Springs, Ohio, has acquired the collected papers of Arthur E. Morgan, former Antioch president, first director of Ohio’s Miami Valley Conservancy District, and first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Included in the collection are family and general correspondence; research for twenty books and hundreds of articles and speeches; and material on Antioch, the TVA, engineering, Morgan’s Community Service organization, and special projects in which Morgan was involved. Irwin Abrams, Antioch University distinguished professor of history, notes that Dr. Morgan became “a social planner of great vision and international reputation.’’ As an engineer, Morgan was involved in over 50 water-control projects and as a consultant, he served educational and construction projects in Finland, Africa, Mexico, and India.

•The Manuscript Division of the Harvard Law School Library has received and processed the William Henry Hastie Papers, a collection of approximately 35,000 items. Hastie, lawyer, educator, Governor of the Virgin Islands and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, died in April, 1976. Materials included are drafts of and correspondence regarding opinions; Court administrative items such as reports and statistical tables; briefs; correspondence relating to his involvement in civic and anti-discrimination causes; manuscripts of writings; and biographical material including photographs and honorary citation.

• Indiana University’sLilly Library, Bloomington, has added to its Pound collection more than 12,000 letters from the estate of Ezra Pound’s widow, Dorothy Shakespear Pound. This collection of incoming correspondence, including letters from T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Katherine Anne Porter, and Lawrence of Arabia, has been acquired by the Lilly Library from Mrs. Pound’s heirs. The letters, which range over the years from 1900 to 1973, the year after Ezra died, are principally concentrated in the period between 1946 and 1953, the difficult years of Pound’s confinement at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, and the period least well documented in his biographies. Accompanying the collection is the correspondence between Pound and his good friend and musical mentor, Agnes Bedford. There are 198 letters from Pound written between 1919 and 1940 and 88 from Bedford dating from 1938 through 1968. The Lilly Library is processing the collection and expects to have it available for use by scholars in the spring.

• Millsap College, Jackson, Mississippi, has received a complete, autographed, first edition collection of the books of Eudora Welty, donated by the author. In 1972 Welty won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Optimist’s Daughter. Also included in the collection are twenty matted and signed black-and-white photographs Welty shot in Mississippi while working as a publicity agent for the federal Work Projects Administration.

• Rice University’s Fondren Library, Houston, officially and appropriately became a major center for the study of manned space flight with the transfer of thousands of historical materials collected during the past twenty years by NASA. The manned flight collection, originally housed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, consists of letters, memoranda, Telex messages, minutes of meetings, reports, proposals, and taped interviews. As the indexing of the material takes place, the collection will be made available to NASA via a remote terminal to the database at the Space Center. Rice library users of the collection on site will also have access to the newer documents still at NASA via the same computer set-up.

• The University of South Florida at St.

Petersburg has received from William Garrett, on microfilm, a collection of manuscripts from Keats House in Hampstead, England. These documents, many of them unpublished, include letters and memorabilia of the Keats circle.

• The University of Texas’ Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, Austin, has acquired a collection of material documenting the career of the late Luther H. Evans, director general of UNESCO from 1953 to 1958. In 1935 Evans, a political scientist, organized and directed the Historical Records Survey for the works Projects Administration in Washington, D.C., and from 1945 to 1953 he served as Librarian of Congress. The Luther H. Evans Collection measures 200 linear shelf feet and consists of diverse material including personal correspondence from 1924 to 1981 and manuscripts of Evans’ speeches and articles. Other items include appointment books, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, tape recordings and phonograph records of his speeches, personal diaries from 1955 to 1978 and a variety of miscellaneous publications related to his work with UNESCO, the World Federalists and numerous international conferences.

•The University of Tulsa has received a complete collection of the publications issued by the Book Club of California, including all of the books it has published since its inception in 1913. In addition, there is a complete run of the Quarterly News-Letter of the Book Club of California (beginning in 1933), all of the annual keepsakes, as well as the printed ephemera relating to the Club’s operation and publication program. Represented throughout the collection are examples of the work of some of California’s finest typographers and printers, including John Henry Nash, the Grabhorns, Alfred and Lawton Kennedy, Adrian Wilson, and Andrew Hoyem.

• Vassar College,Poughkeepsie, New York, has acquired the papers of the late poet Elizabeth Bishop, prize-winning author of Geography III and North and South. The Bishop collection has over 3,500 pages of manuscripts by the poet, from her class notes while a student at Vassar to poems uncompleted at her death. There are also diaries, appointment books, business papers, and working papers and galleys for her poems and prose. The collection contains letters from many of the leading authors of the twentieth century, including e.e. cummings, Alice B. Toklas, Dylan Thomas, and Eudora Welty.

• Washington College’sClifton M. Miller Library, Chestertown, Maryland, has received an archive-library of source materials (and supporting scholarly works) on the Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary period. Included are all of the Maryland and Virginia newspapers, 1773- 1783; the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1789; Admiralty Records of ships’ logs, journals and prize lists; Customs Records, both American and British; papers (family, naval, Admiralty Court, Continental Congress, etc.); and the Sol Feinstone collection of the American Revolution. These primary sources in microform are supplemented by appropriate historical monographs, maps, atlases, bibliographical works, Ph.D. dissertations, along with photographs of contemporary maps, scenes, portraits, documents, and cartoons. The collection served as the research base for the bicentennial narrative history, Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution, (Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1981).

GRANTS

• The library of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, has received a $240,000 grant from the Pew Memorial Trust. The grant will fund a three-year retrospective cataloging project, including the purchase of an OCLC terminal and the acquisition of additional staff. The project will allow the library to provide improved subject access to its extensive collection of books on immigration and ethnicity, and it will also make the collection accessible to other OCLC libraries.

• The vast collection of rarities and treasures held by The New York Public Library moved a step closer to permanent public display with the announcement of a $1,250,000 grant to NYPL by the D.S. and R.H. Gottesman Foundation. The grant will be used to restore the main exhibition room in the library’s 42nd Street Central Research Building, a centerpiece in the Beaux Arts building designed by Carrère and Hastings that served as the library’s major display area from its opening in 1911 to World War II. The Gottesman grant is the keystone in what library officials estimate to be a $3.5 million project to fully restore and refurbish the exhibition room. The money also will be used to endow an exhibition program and hire a staff.

• New York University Libraries, the New York Public Library, and Columbia University Libraries have been awarded a joint Higher Education Act, Title II-C grant, for cataloging and preserving art materials. Expenditures totaling $662,816 were authorized for the fiscal year that began October 1, 1981. Of the total amount, New York University will receive $216,827; these funds will be used to improve access to the art holdings of the Institute of Fine Art Library (IFA) and the Parsons School of Design Gimbel Library. The NYU project will concentrate on retrospective conversion and preservation activities.

• Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the cataloging and preservation of the Charles Coffin Book Collection, which represents an important source of information on the development of higher education in post-Revolutionary America and the westward spread of culture. The collection consists of nearly 2,000 volumes which comprised the College’s original library between 1794 and 1827.

• The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, has received a grant of $74,000 from the Charles H. Revson Foundation to experiment with innovative videodisc technology to preserve, catalog, and disseminate its film and photograph collections documenting Jewish life in pre-war Eastern Europe. The project will select from among the many silent “travel films’’ in YIVO’s collection, most of them taken by visitors from America to Eastern Europe in the pre-war period, transfer that footage to videodisc, and invite eyewitnesses who were present at the filming or lived in the place filmed to be interviewed and describe what is on the screen. In addition, the project will store and catalog some of YIVO’s collection of 120,000 photographs. YIVO, which was founded in Vilna, Poland, in 1925, and moved to New York in 1940, is a major center for the study of Jewish history and culture in Eastern and Central Europe; Jewish immigration to and settlement in the United States; the Holocaust period; and Yiddish language, literature and folklore. ■■