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Vol, X, No. 1 Quarterly October^ 1959

We are glad to include in this issue of the

FLYLEAF the final instalment of Professor E. H.

Phillips's series of articles on the manuscript collection in the Fondren library. We should like to express our appreciation to him for his willing- ness to furnish this information to the Friends of the Library and to congratulate him on the lively style in which the articles are written. Our best wishes go with Dr. Phillips as he assumes his new position as Professor of History at Austin College. 2

THE FOHDiREN LIBRf^RY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

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In the autumn of 1958 an alumnus and good friend of the Eice Institute, Card G. Elliott, Jr., '35^ graciously turned over to the Library a sizable col3-ection of books and manuscripts that had belonged to his father and mother to his sister, Mary Alice Elliott, who passed away vhile a student at Rice in 1929» ^^ manuscript portion of the Elliott collection consists of a nurober of diaries, scrapbooks, and notebooks, and about 500 letters.

The diaries include two late nineteenth- century journals kept by Mr. Elliott, Sr. The first one begins on September 3, 1890, when ¥x, Elliott was 13 years old, and it gives a detailed picture of farm life in Kingman County, Kansas. Mr. Elliott de- scribes the many chores he had to do which included corn-husking, seed-drilling, tending pigs, and herd- ing cattle^ but he also mentions the lighter side of life such as the County Fair and the political rallies. Those were turbulent years in Kansas politics as "Sockless" Jerry Simpson and his followers were "raising less corn and more hell, " and even a boy like Elliott was caugiht up in the excitement. On October 1, 1890, his diary reads: "Republican rally in town today. Gov. L. H. Humphreys was here and delivered a speech. I played with the band." This first diary terminates on June 13, I892, and the second begins on September 3, I896, and continues to May 15/ 1900. The diary follows Kansas life and politics and reaches a crescendo on November 3rd when the entry reads: " "

"Election Day. Hurrah for McKinley. Stayed up all night copying election bulletins." William Jennings Bryan had gone down in defeat "but not in Kansas, where the Republican Elliott ruefully reported on November 7th that the state had gone "Popocrat." The diary makes some colorful references to the Spanish American V/ar in l898_, and the writer's patriotic sentiments bubbled over on the 4th of July^ when he reported "Battle Santiago, American Victory" and drew a picture of "Old Glory." Card G. Elliott, 3r., also kept four small diaries during the years 1913-16, which, while highly condensed, are still valuable; these diaries refer primarily to Mr. Elliott ^s duties with the MKT Railroad, but the explosion in Europe was not completely ignored. The entry for September 3, 191^; reads: "Germany & Austria at V/ar with Servia - Russia France England & Italy not in it yet - Pres. Wilson met Enginemen & Managers on V/estern demands .

Other diaries in the Elliott collection are (1) a brief diary by Mary L. Malone (later Mrs. Elliott, Sr.) covering a trip to Europe in 1905^ (2) a fine diary by Ml's. Elliott describing a trip to the Continent and Near East in I928, (3) a charming diary by Mary Alice Elliott during the sajne trip, and {h) a sprightly school diary kept by Miss Elliott from 1925-8 while she attended Walnut Hill School (Natick, Mass.) and the Rice Institute. The entries in the Rice diary are particularly interesting, a few words often speaking volumes; for example, "Feb. 16, 1928 - Got (report) card, not on pro, but busted math. The scrapbooks and notebooks in the Elliott collection range from small household expense booklets to a very detailed scrapbook of Mary Malone's trip to Europe in 1905* ^e latter includes ship menus, excursion tickets, passenger lists, sight-seeing pamphlets, theater programs (eg., Garrick Theatre and the Alhambra Music Hall), a clipping from the London Daily Telegraph of July 27, I905, in which the young Winston Churchill is taken severely to task for his views, a letter from Craig W. Wadsworth, Second Secretary of the American Embassy in London, and a letter of July 2k y 1905^ on Board of Trade stationery from Bonar Law, who was to become Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1922. Another interesting scrapbook is a "Floral Album" kept by Miss Lou Stimson during the Civil War and is replete with inscriptions by Confederate soldiers testifying to the kindness of Miss Stimson and the other Canton, Miss., ladies. There is an ante bellum notebook kept by Mary E. (Russell) Stimson which gives considerable family history of Ephraim Judson Stimson and his children. An interesting feature of this album is the inclusion of locks of hair of deceased members of the family - one such lock, still braided, is dated 183O. For the economic historian there are two interesting note- books; one of ©1915 gives a considerable information on the operation of the Katy Railroad, and a booklet of 1913-15 gives the details of a series of wage agreements between the Katy and the Railroad Brother- hoods.

The Elliott collection also includes many letters; these extend from l8^0 to 1932, though most are from the early 20th century. There are seven letters from the Civil War days, giving a picture of civilian life and attitudes in Mississippi. Four of these letters are from Lou Stimson to a hospitalized soldier, Walter L. I'-fe.lone, whom she later married; her letter of July 1, ld6k is particularly choice, for she net only tells of learning a new song, "Just before the Battle, Mother, " which "brought tears to her eyes in spite of its Yankee origin, but she also discusses with poignancy her attitude tov/ards her Yankee relatives. In a September letter she records her reaction to the news of the burning of Atlanta and describes the activity of Yankee raiders in her own neighborhood. Miss Stimson' s letters reveal a charming personality and a cultivated literate hand.

There are four other groups of letters in the Elliott collection. One group consists of a number of letters from Kansas, 1900-30, which give an ex- cellent picture of rural life, especially in the little town of Goddard, A second group consists of letters of Mary Malone Elliott, including many written duxing her two trips to Europe, 1905 and 1928; Mrs. Elliott was a very keen and sensitive observer who wrote with a great deal of charm. A third group of letters are those of Mary Alice Elliott, consisting mainly of letters written while she was a student at Walnut Hill School and while she was on the cruise with her mother in I928. These vivacious letters are quite charming, and the picture of New England prep school life of a generation ago are bound to be of considerable historic interest as time marches on. The last group of letters consists of the correspondence of ivir. Elliott, Sr., on a variety of subjects but mainly on his work with various railroads in- cluding the Santa Fe, the Fort Worth and Denver, and the Katy, where he was the assistant to the 6 chief of operations. A valuable letter in this group is a 115 page typed copy of the report of W. A. Webb, Chief Operating Officer, to C. E. Schaff, President of the Katy, describing the Katy's operations over the past year. There is a particularly interesting "dividend" in the Elliott collection j it is a letter from an American soldier in the Philippines who was engaged in suppressing Aguinaldo's fight for in- dependence. Extracts from this letter, which was written in I^nila, October 6, l899^ are as follows: Your letter of July 30 arrived yesterday after having taken a salt-water bath for about ten days. The transport Morgan City carrying troops and mail ran on the rocks off the Japan Coast and went down before the mail could be taken off. Since then divers have been at work and all the mail has been saved. Your letter is still damp but I can read it OK as the ink did not blur any (and this was before the day of the underwater pen! )•••! like the Philippines fine and a soldier* s life is not so bad except at times. We get $15.60 per month board and clothes If a man wants to make money the array is no place for him. Still several of the boys save $10 per month. If you want to live an easy life for 3 years, see the world and have a few hair-raising adventures the army is all right.... ]y^ company is General Otis* bodyguard at present time while the rest of the regiment is doing patrol duty on the streets. Otis lives in the residence of the Spanish Ex-Gov-General. The residence is in a large shady park with walls on 3 sides and with the Pasig river on the other side. s .

We have two large well ventilated buildings for our quarters. A building on each side of the palace. Our duty is all done in the shade and with the cool breeze from the river life

is rather pleasant even in this hot country. . . Perhaps we ought to be satisfied to stay here but nearly all of us long for the lines again. We had about 10 days marching and fighting in the rain when we first landed and its no snap but I like it just the same. We had one man killed and two wounded in the battle of Pasig. Our Regt. lost 5 killed and had 23 wounded in that one scrap.... No there are no pretty girls here. If we just had all the Kansas City girls here life would be worth living for sure .... The Library is indeed fortunate to have the Elliott collection and owes a warm debt of gratitude to Card G. Elliott, Jr., for his fine gift, which included many books and pieces of sheet music not discussed here.

About the same time the Library was given a splendid collection of Civil War letters written by Hugh H. Wilson of Mayesville, South Carolina; these letters are the gift of Mrs. E. G. Wilson and her daughter, Mrs. Hardin Craig, Jr. Most of the letters were written at Mayesville in l862, though three of the letters describe a visit to Richmond, "Virginia, in 1862, and four of them record Mr. Wilson* experiences with the South Carolina Reserves, engaged in coastal defense in 1863-64. Mr. Wilson's descrip- tions of the military hospitals in Richmond are particularly moving. He found the hospitals remark- ably clean, "But the suffering - Who can describe it I.... it is equaled only by the indefatigable energy, zeal, and self-denying patriotism of the Richmond 8

Ladies, who hover around the couches of the suffering and dying, day and night, .. .with a seeming determin- ation to stay the hand of Death." Mr. Wilson also gives excellent descriptions of Charlotte and Greens- boro, North Carolina, during the War.

Another recent addition to the manuscript collection consists of the Captain Charles R. Kertell Papers, which staff member, Richard Perrine, obtained for the Library. These documents pertain to the field of maritime history. Ihey include a number of letters and docuiTients relative to the grounding of the merchant ship, S. S. Schroon , in the Weser River near Bremen on February 15^ 1923^ and there is also a lengthy trans- cript of a meeting held in New Orleans, November 8_,1927, between the National Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America and representatives of American steamship companies at which the two parties tried to reach an agreement as to "a definition of what consti- tutes an arrival, departure, sailing, or shifting of ships." Since Houston is one of the leading ports of the world, it is to be hoped that more materials re- lating to maritime history will find their way to Fondren Library.

During the past year the Library has acquired a number of manuscripts in the fields of British and modern European history and literature. One of these is the Arthur Goddard and J. S. Wood collection, which embraces 6k letters written to Goddard, who was the editor of the Lady^ s Pictorial, and to Wood, who was the editor of the Gentlewoman . Ihe letters, written in the l890*s and 1900's, are from a number of prom- inent figures, including Judge Roy Bean* s idol Li Hie langtry. Sir John Tenniel, the celebrated Punch cartoonist and illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, and Tenniel's fellow caricaturist, Harry Furniss. Also included are the British statesman, author, and imperialist Sir Charles Dilke, the novelist Marie Corelli, and the prominent journalists Sir Francis Cowley Burnand and Sir Edwin Lester Arnold. Two small collections of Burnand and Arnold papers were obtained at the same time. Those of Burnand, who was a play- wright, author, and editor of Punch , consist of ^9 letters which he trrote during the years I86I-I906. The papers of Arnold, who was a poet as well as the editor of the London Daily Telegraph, consist of six of his own letters and eight from his correspondents in the years 1837-95.

The Library has also obtained papers of another British joui^nalist of this period, Andrew W. Tuer, who was an author, collector, and printer as well as an editor. This collection consists of jG letters to Tuer in the years 1876-9^ from Frank Burnand, Jerome K. Jerome, Charles Dickens, Jr., and many others. One letter is from the Buffalo Bill Cody Company, though it lacks Colonel Cody's signature. Another letter is from an even greater entertainer, P.T. Bamum, who writes from "The Olympia, " where his "Greatest Show on Earth" was being staged: I would be very grateful indeed if you would let me know how you successfully entered our Ex- hibition without a Ticket or paying. You will be conferring a great favor on me by giving this information, and I will tieat your reply with the respectful consideration your kindness deserves. 10

Itiere are several letters from General "caainese" Gordon's brother^ Sir H. W. Gordon^ concerning the great soldier-of-fortune's fate at Khartoum and the publishing of his diaries. "Ehere are also a number of messages from Her Majesty Queen Victoria, written on royal stationery by her secretary. Sir Henry Ponsonby, thanking Tuer for his favors.

Another collection which the Library obtained this past year consists of 62 letters written by the humorist, Paul Blouet, better known as "Miax O'Rell (18^^8-1903). l^he letters primarily concern Blouet's lecture tours in the years l885-95^ and one of these is written from New Orleans, though most are from various towns in England and France, Still another nineteenth -century collection obtained at the same time is that of Joanna and Susan Horner, daughters of the prominent British geologist, Leonard Homer, and sisters-in-law of an even more prominent geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, Hhere are no l^'-ell letters in the collection, but several letters refer to both Sir Charles and Lady lyell. Ihere is an excellent letter from the great English historian. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, in which he discusses at some length the art of India in the Renaissance period including the famous Taj Mahal. There are two letters from General McMurdo, who is described as "one of the Bulwarks of the British Army, " on ancient fortifications near Florence, Italy, Some of the other correspondents in the collection are Lord Landsdowne, Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, and Dr. Ludovicus Haynald, Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary. Small, but certainly worthy of notice, is the collection of eighteen letters of Hallam. Second Lord Tennyson. These letters. 11 written by the son of Alfred^ include a very interest- ing one on Charles Kingsley and his opposition to the Oxford Movement. There is also a recent letter from Charles Tennyson.

Two collections of papers concerning Britain's interest in the Balkans were also obtained this past year. One of these is the Greek Committee collection which contains many letters written by prominent English leaders showing their interest in the cause of Greece in the years l878-97» The letters are addressed to Lewis Sergeant, a leader of the Greek Committee. There are several letters from Prime Minister Gladstone and one from his son, Herbert, Viscount Gladstone, in which some interesting comments are made on Disraeli, Lord Salisbury, and Randolph Churchill. There are eight letters from Lord Rosebery, five from Sir Charles Dilke, and letters from Lord Bryce, Lord Landsdowne, the Duke of Westminster, and Joseph Chamberlain. One of the best letters is from Pi'ofessor F. Max Muller of Oxford in which he says: I was bom a Phihellene - my father was the poet of the Griechen Lieder - he wrote in l821 the epitaph on Konstantin Kanari,..and though the Greeks have not fulfilled all our hopes, I have never lost my faith in Greece. Now is the time for Greece to act, and act she will, if only England will. You cannot have a Concert with- out someone playing first fiddle, nor will you ever have a European Concert, unless England will lead again, as she used to do. The other Balkan collection is that of the National Reform Union embracing the years l882-1913» 1

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A small collection of 31 letters, this is nonetheless a valuable group of papers, giving further views of prominent Englishmen on the troubles in Macedonia and Greece. Among the correspondents are Williajn E. Gladstone, Noel Buxton, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Earl Grey, and Lords Bryce, Cecil, and Haldane. Ihere is also a letter from the British-American historian and political economist, Goldwin Smith, written from Cornell University in 1901^ in which he comments on the Boer War and the declining war fever in Canada, where, he says, the "people were never rightly informed about the cause of the war."

The most recent manuscript acquisition of the Library is a collection of Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary letters, which Mr. Roger Guthrie made available to us. Ihese letters, dating from l8lO-l859^ concern the missionary work of the Episcopal Church both in America and overseas. ^feLny famous leaders of the Episcopal Church are represented in the collection, including no fewer than fourteen bishops and many educators, scholars, and missionaries. Among the outstanding bishops whose letters appear in the collection are Jackson Kemper, first Missionary Bishop of the Church in the West, William Meade, third bishop of Virginia and a founder of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey, who has been called "one of the notable bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, " and Richard Channing Moore, fourth bishop of Virginia, who presided at the funeral of John Marshall in l835» Interestingly enough. Bishop William White of Pennsylvania is represented in the collection with a letter of September, l834, describing "

13 the preparations "being made to honor Judge Marshall on his 79*th birthday at which White was to give the invocation. One of the most interest- ing of the "bishopric letters is one written "by- Bishop Kemper, headed "The Erie & Wabash Canal, 8th July, 1843," in which he says: "Here I am moving 2 miles an hour - mosquitoes by day - a bed equal to the soft side of a plank by night, with a fair prospect of not reaching Ft. Wayne until tomorrow by noon J

Among the famous Episcopal scholars whose letters appear in the collection are William Sparrow, Dean of the Episcopal Iheological Seminary at Alexandria, Alonzo Potter, Vice-President of Union College and later Bishop of Pennsylvania, Thomas W. Coit, President of Transylvania College (1837-39) and one of the outstanding liturgical scholars of his day, and Joseph Pacl-iard, also a great biblical scholar who succeeded Sparrow as Dean of Episcopal Theological Seminary. In addition, there are letters from such famous foreign missionaries as John Payne, who headed the Churches mission at Cape Palmas on the African Gold Coast, E. F. Henig, another African missionary, whose wife wrote one of the most valuable histo- ries of the African missions, and Thomas S. Savage, who not only did splendid missionary work in Africa but also published several important biological studies on the chimpanzee, the termite, and the driver ants of West Africa. Savage later shifted from foreign to domestic mission work, and in a letter of September 2'J, iQh^, he tells of his plans to go as a missionary to Texas, hoping "to diffuse the blessings of Christianity in that region." There is .

Ik an especially interesting letter from the Secretary of the Board of Domestic and Foreign Missions, Pierre P. Irving,, to the famous China missionary bishop, William J. Boone, in which Irving mentions that he is forwarding a melodeon for one of Boone's cohorts, Robert Nelson many of whose letters appear in the collection. Nelson was a grandson of General Thomas Nelson, who was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and a hero at Yorktown; young Nelson was also a relative of Bishop Meade and of Eev. William Nelson Pendleton, the famous Confederate officer, and he lived with each of those gentlemen dioring his youth.

A number of the letters in this collection are from men and women volunteering their services for the foreign missions. One choice letter of this kind comes from a Nantucket miss who has the Mel- villian name of Phoebe Coffin. Miss Coffin waxes quite poetic concerning her zeal for mission work, saying: In Thy service, pain is pleasure

With thy favor, loss is gain. . .

Tho' free the parting tear may rise, Tho' high may roll the boisterous wave, I'd find ray home 'neath foreign skies.

And shroud me in a stranger ' s grave ....

There dead to the world, its allurements, and glory, The toil of the teacher, I'll meekly assume. And patiently tell to the pagan the story. Of the manger, the garden, the cross, and the tomb: 15

And far, far away from the home of my childhood, I'll watch, and I'll wander as duty shall call, On Wastes, and on waters, by jungle and wildwood. Unfriended, unshielded, yet strengthened in all. Perhaps some of our friends can help ue identify these lines which Miss Coffin is quoting. It is worth noting that the letters in this collection capture the sincere spirit of dedication in which these missionaries set forth at their tasks - it was not the self-interest of "Cold War" evangelism, but deep, romantic idealism. The most valuable item in the collection bears out the reality of "the boisterous wave" and other dangers" *neath foreign skies" about which Miss Coffin lyri- cized. It is a letter in the form of journal written in 1837 by a missionary named Lancelot B. Minor, who was m.aking his first trip to Africa in the Ship Baltimore. He mentions the gales and the seasickness, the flying fish and the "strange birds" that were encountered during the voyage. He describes Port Prya, Cape Verde Islands, where he was shocked by the "signs of misery and vice" which "everyv7here met the view. " On the ^i-th of July he reached the Cape Palinas mission and wrote:

. We have at length reached the scene of action and are calmly awaiting the fever. God in mercy has removed from our minds all dread whatsoever. Indeed we can scarcely realize that air so bland and soft as this can be deleterious to human life. But it is even so. Possibly I am at this moment writing the last line I shall ever direct

to you Sc if so dear brother farewell until we 16

meet where pain and sickness are no more. In fact, Minor contracted the fever almost immediately and was very seriously ill; however, he recovered and carried on magnificent work in Africa for the next six years until he died of dysentery in 18^3 at the age of 29.

This collection, which numbers 1^2 items, also includes a letter from Henry Venn, the prominent Secretary of the famous Church Missionary Society of London, a latter from a British merchant, Frank Pooley, which gives valuable information on trading practices in West Africa, and three letters by the famous American educator, Emma Willard, in which she describes the plans being made for establishing the first school for young women in Athens, Greece, a measure in which she was vitally interested. All in all the collection is quite an interesting one.

In addition to the foregoing collections, the Library has a number of miscellaneous manuscripts, some of which are interesting and valuable, if only for the prominent autographs that appear at the bottom of the letters. Ihis miscellaneous group bears such prominent signatures as those of Jose de San Martin, the great South American Liberator, Pierre Augustin Carron de Beaumarchais, the French statesman who aided the American Revolutionary cause and also created the immortal Figaro (his letter, incidentally, is to Baron Von Steuben), Chauncey M. DePew, railroad leader, statesman, and orator par excellence, one of whose speeches is here in script, and Joseph Pennell, the famous American artist, illustrator, and author. In addition, there are letters from many of England's greatest literary figures, such as William Wordsworth, 17

Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, George Bernard Siaw, John Galsworthy, Eobert Williams Buchanan, and John Gait, which have value for the historian as well as for the literary scholar.

Ihis has not been a complete listing of the Library's manuscript holdings, but it should give an idea of the excellent start we have towards a distinguished manuscript collection. To attain this goal the Library needs the interest and help of its many Friends. Virtually every one of our readers has in his posses- sion letters or documents which may be of historic interest now or with the passage of time. Most of such material is destroyed or allowed to fall into un- appreciative hands. The money value of this material is not great, but the historic value may be large, particularly when assombled with other collections where each can add its own distinctive flavor, just as each individual adds his distinct touch to the community. If our readers could only realize how some departed figure comes to life again as an historian reads over an old letter and lets the writer's spirit and personality and unique experience live again and shape our ever-evolving understanding of the past, they might not only have their faith in immortality strengthened but would take real joy in helping to build a great manuscript collection at the Fondren Library. In a democracy the letters of the common people have value as well as those of the elite; in a dominantly middle-class society, the letters of middle-class families are of particular interest; so, high, low, or middle, let us join in preserving this .

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delightful and valuable part of our heritage. The Library will welcome any manuscript gifts, no matter bow hunible, and will particularly appreciate in- fomiation and assistance which will enable us to acquire large collections. Let this be an invitation to all Friends to join in this fascinating, creative endeavor

Edward Hake Phillips

The free and uncensored library where young children begin to read and where old men know a morning of warmth and peace is the truly great joy of liberty,

- -Harry Golden 19

EXHIBITS IN THE FOITOREN LIBRARY

Exhibits at Fondren Library are under way again, and the first in the fall series was a his- torical survey of the development of the science of mathematics, as it grev from the speculations of Euclid and Archimedes to the discoveries of Gauss, Rieraann, ajid Einstein. This history of mathematical ideas and the personalities behind them was of particular interest to those who have

never experienced a comprehensive view of the . development of this science.

Pictures and biographies of some of the great mathematicians of all time were mounted on the wall, and their important works, selected and annotated with the help of Professor Gerald MacLane of the Mathematics Department were displayed in the cases. Many editions were of particular interest in themselves, some being unusual volumes from the Fondren Library Rare Book Collection. Featured among these was an illuminated manu- script textbook that was probably made up for a Prince of Orange in the early l6th century, a first edition of Ne-vrbon^s Principi a, and an edition of Ubaldo's le Mechanique, said to have been used by Galileo.

Tentative plans being made for future e2'±iibits include displays relating to Schiller, Aesthetics, Beethoven, Persian miniatures, early American maps (157O-I8OO), and the traditional Faculty- Student Art Exhibit in the Spring. Further suggestions .

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for displays- -and interesting contributions —"will be warmly welcomed by the Exhibits Librarian, who feels the exhibits should reflect the ever-widening interests and experiences of the Institute and its per- sonnel. Mrs. H. C. Pierce Exhibits Librarian

A RECENT GIFT OF OPERA SCORES

The Pondren Library recently received a gift of unusual interest and value. f/Irs. Ross E. Dillon donated a collection of scores of operas and light operas, many of them now difficult to obtain. The most interesting of these is a well- bound volume of Donizetti's Don Pasquale. brought out in the early twentieth centui'y by the London music publisher Boosey, An Italian edition of Verdi ^s Un Ballo in Maschera is also included, as is a German edition of Wagner* s Tlie Walkure Several light operas of the late nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries are of un- usual interest: I^oncavallo ' s Zingari and II Rolando and W. F. Peters The Mayor of Tokio are good examples. Very light musicals are represented by such scores as that of Gustave Kerker's The Social Whirl and Victor Herbert's The Viceroy.

The collection^ which contains twenty-nine scores, is on file in the Music Room and is avail- able upon application to the Music Librarian. 21

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In Memory of Donor

Clyde Barkwell Mr. & Mrs. J. Prank Jungman

Sophie R. Boettcher Mr. & Mrs. V. P. Ringer

Marlon E. Brock Mrs. Allen W. Hamill, Jr. & Mrs. Nferie B. Golding

Glenn E. Bryan, Sr, Mary Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Carl M. Knapp

Levis Randolph Bryan, Jr. Nina J. Cullinan Mrs. Edward W. Kelley

James M. Bughee Beatrice Y. Harrison Mr. & Mi's. Henry H. Radley

Ira Lee Camphell Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Dwyer Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. ^yer Mr. & Mrs. Chas. W. Hamilton I«lr. & Mrs. Carl M. Khapp Dr. & Mrs. Clifford Smith

John Cashen Mr. & Mis. William B. Brooks, Cille, Virginia and Sally Mr. & Mrs. Chas. W. Hamilton E. Pender Turnbull

j_ Asa Crawford Chandler Mr. 8c KjlS, C. M. Hudspeth Mr. & Mrs. Marcel Moraud

V/alter L. Church Mr. & Mrs. Ben M. Anderson

Keenan ; Mrs. A. V. Cockrell Mr. & Mrs. W. H.

Sarah Lindsay Coleman Mrs. Joseph P. Smyth, Jr. ,

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In Memory of Donor

Mrs. W. L. Cook Mr. Sc Ivtrs. Sandford H. Brovm Mr, & Mrs. Chas. W. Hamilton Mr. & Mjts. Talbott Wilson

Mason Locke Weems Mr. 8c Mrs. Claxton Parks Craig Mrs. I. W. Culp Mr. S: Mrs. George E. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Chas. ¥. Hamilton

Mrs. Alma Morrow Mr. & Mrs. Herman Brown Cummings H. B. Davis Mr. & 14rs. Floyd W. Simonds ^Ir. & I4rs. Robert Simonds Mr. gsMrs. C* F. Simonds Ivlrs. H. S. Smith David Smith

M. L. Davis I^Ir. & Mrs. Lee Hodges

S. W. Davis Mrs. Preston Moore

Alexander Deussen Texas National Bank

U. Hk Drouet Mr. & Mrs. V. P. Ringer

A. D. Dyess Mr. 8c yks* Chas. W. Hamilton

J. D. Farrington I'^. & Mrs. J. Frank Jungraan

Mrs. T. L. Fontaine Mr. & lytrs. C. M. Hudspeth

J. Carlton Fuller Mr. & Mrs. Don Wyatt

Sterling A. Germany Mr.SMrs. Stanley P.Flukinger

Mrs. Robert C. ¥ir, & Mrs. M. Arth^ur Kotch Giesberg

Mr s . C . W . "Greenwood , Sr Mr. & Mrs. Hugh M. Stewart 23

In Memory of Donor

Mrs. Paul Hardcastle Mrs, J. C. Means

Ml^s, Pearl B, Hardeman Mary Dunbar

Dr. Clarence P. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Herman Brown

Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. John Mason

Claude W. Heaps Mrs. Maud G. Budlong Mrs. Harry Hilliard }^s. E. G. Maclay Mr, & Mrs. L. A. Stevenson

Mrs, E. A. Heyck Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Pearson

Mrs. Daisy Greiswold Hitchcock

Mr.&Mrs. Murphy A. - Ihibodeaux

C. H. Hurlock, Sr. Vlr, & Mrs. Carl M. lOiapp

Mrs. James M. Hutchins Mir. & Mrs. Hugh M. Stewart

Fred N. Jamail Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Dwyer

Mi's. Mildred Johnston Ediaond H. Dufau

Grover H. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Burke Baker Mr, & Mrs. W. Tucker Blaine Mrs. W. S. Hunt Mrs. Robert C. Meysenburg Mr. & Mrs. L. A. Stevenson

Cooke Wilson Kelsey Mr. & Mrs. Albert Bel Fay

Neal T. Lacey, Sr. Mr. &5 Mrs. Charles B. Tapley

Mrs, C. F. Learned Mr. & Mrs. George R. Brown Mr, & Mrs. Hudson D. Cannouche Mr. Sa Mrs. Qharles W. Hamilton Mr* & Mrs.* Hu^ M. Stewart 24

In Memory of Donor

Dr. Frederick Rice Luramis Mr. & Mrs. J. R. Aston Mr. & Mrs. W. Browne Baker Mr. & Mrs. George R. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Herman Brown Mr. & Mrs. H. D. Bruns Mr. & Mrs. Emmet P. Crow^Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Evans

Mrs . W. S. Farish Mr. & Mi^s. L. D. Gilmer

Mrs . Allen W. Hamill, Jr.

& I /Irs. Marie B. Golding

Mrs . W. S. Hunt Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Kirkland

Mrs . J. C. Means Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Squire

Mrs . R. W. Wier

Mrs. Inez Lyon Mr. & Mi-s. Hugh M. Stewai't

Major Cleyburn McCauley Mrs. Elizaoeth E. Clay

Mrs. Annie McClelland Mr.&Mrs. Chas. ¥. Hamilton Mr. & r«trs. James F. Lawler

Tom McDonald Mr.&Mrs. Carl M. Knapp

Mark McElhannon Mr. & Mrs. Hugh M. Stewart

Mrs. W. S. Mackey, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. David Hannah ^ Jr, Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Hudspeth Mr. & Mrs, Don Wyatt Edward C. Black

Dr. E. Allen Measom Mr.SdvIrs. Murphy H. Thibodeaux

Elmo B. Meroney Mr. 8c Mrs. V. P. Ringer 25

In Memory of Donor

Edgar Monteith Mr. & Mrs. George R. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Herman Brown Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Hamilton Mr. & I^trs. Arthur H. Stevens

Mrs. James C. Morehaad,Sr.Mi-. & Mrs. T. W. Bonner Mr. & Mrs. Hardin Craig, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Karl Dunaway

W. Kyle Morrow Mr. & Mrs. Cyril Hogan

W. J. Moyes Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Knapp

Mrs. J. Victor Neuhaus, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. George R. Brown

Joseph N. Newell Philip E. Sayers

Albert Olson Mi^. & l^trs. C. M. Hudspeth

Mrs. Edward D. Peden Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Aves

Mrs. Lottie Turley Ramsey Mr.S^s. Stanley P. Flukinger

Benjamin Botts Rice Mr. 8t Mrs. L. D. Gilmer Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Kirkland

Sid Richardson Mr. & Mrs. George R. Brown

Morris G. Rosenthal Dan M. Moody

Dorothy Rotan Mr. & Mrs. Albert Bel Fay Mr. & Mrs. Chas. W, Hamilton

Ivlrs. Elsie Sauer Mr. & Mrs. George B. Kitchel

Harry Carr Schirmer Mr. & Mrs. W. 0. Bartle 26

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Mrs. Paul Schumacher Mrs. E. G. Maclay Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. F. Schumacher

John Seymour Mr. & i4rs. Edwin H. Dyer

Edgar S. Sherar University of Texas Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Aves Mr. & Mrs. L. T. Barrow Betty Bollfrass Mr. & Mrs. N. W. Boston W. F. Bowman Sue Cook D. D. Ford June Marye Frost Geophysical Society of Houston Henry V. Goss H. Hajovsky Mr. & Mrs. P. R. Heunill C. P. Earkins C. H. Hightower Independent Exploration Company Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Howell Ralph S. Jackson T. G. Kelliher Douglass Lanier R. M. Low Roy H. McCubbin Mr. & Mrs. John R. Monkhouse W. R. Nail

Olaf la Cour Olsen^ Ellen Sc Erik Mr. & Mrs. Burton B. Paddock Mrs. A. M. Parsons Edmond Parsons H. G. Patrick Mr. & Mrs. Cooper K. Ragan R. W. Raper 27

In Memory of Donor

Edgar S. Sierar Robert H. Ray, Jack C. Pollard, Robert S. Duty, Jr., & Noniian P. Teague Mr.&Mrs. W. A. Reiter James D. Sartv/elle K. A. Schmidt Mr. & MlS. a. L. Selig Mr. & Mrs. T. H. Shartle Louise Shepherd W. S. Shipmen, Jr. W. Harlan Taylor Ivlr. & I^irs. B.J. Troxall William H, Vaughan Mr. & Mrs. J.L. Wallace

Mrs. Ben W. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Hugh E. Gragg Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Hudspeth E. Pender Turnbull Anne H. Wheeler

Webster Snyder Ivlrs. Joseph P. Smith, Jr.

Mrs. Carlos D. Speck, Sr. ,Mr. & Mrs. Lee Hodges

I«trs. Elsie Strohbelin Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Stevens

Sally Byrd Si-iltan Mr. & Mrs. George R. Brown

Mr. Sc Mrs. Cooper K. Ragan Mr. & Mrs. Hugh M. Stewart

Ite-. & f/lrs. C. M. Taylor

Hoxie H. Thompson Mrs. A. C. Wood

Mi^s. J. Russell Wait Mr. & Mrs. J. R. Aston

V7. S. Warren Ivlr. OS Mrs. W. H. Keenan

Mrs. Thomas Watkins,Jr. r^r. & Mis. Ben M. Anderson .

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Roderick J. Watts Mr. 8c Mrs, Chas. W. Harailtoi Employees of the Editorial Department of the Houston Chronicle

William J. Way Mr. & ^t^s. Nelson B. Sears

W. S. Woodruff Dr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Welsh

It is because hooks are friends that do change

and remind us of change ^ that we should keep them with us, even at a little inconvenience, and not turn them out in the world to find a dusty asylum in cheap

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