Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions Brown University has received a grant of project will be named “The Elizabeth Murray $228,454 from the National Endowment for Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts,” in the Humanities to create a statewide data­ honor of the deceased celebrated painter and base, entitled the Rhode Island Archival and printmaker. Through the two­year project, Manuscript Collections Online (RIAMCO). the Oral History Research Office will conduct Through the application of Encoded Archival life and career histories of 20 women artists, Description (EAD) finding aids, RIAMCO will collectors, and curators whose contributions collocate more than 300 dispersed but over­ have impacted the art world in the 20th and lapping collections about the history of Rhode 21st centuries. An advisory committee led by Island drawn from local public and university Gund will select the interviewees for project. libraries across the state, fashioning a union The interviews will take place over two years Web resource hosted and supported by and result in 200 hours of interviews. Each Brown University. The material documented woman’s history will be approximately ten in RIAMCO represents the history of Rhode hours in length, composed primarily of audio, Island from the colonial period to the pres­ supplemented with video, and available to ent day and provides valuable insight into a the public through the Columbia University range of topics including business, the Civil Libraries upon completion in 2009. War, slavery, literature, church history, poli­ tics, diplomatic history, art and architecture, military history, labor, health and medicine, Acquisitions state and local government, higher education, and Native Americans. Three titles from a Rhode Island book dealer Johns Hopkins University and the Biblio­ have been donated to Brown University thèque Nationale de France have received Library. The items include a first edition of grants of $779,000 from the Andrew W. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a fi rst Mellon Foundation to provide scholars with English language edition of Ludwig Wittgen­ virtual access to more than half the known stein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and versions of Le Roman de la Rose, a medieval John James Audubon’s The Quadrupeds of poem on the art of love that was the most­ North America. Each of the books includes read work of French literature for hundreds details that add to their value and importance of years. The two grants will enable the to scholars and researchers. The edition of Roman de la Rose project at Johns Hopkins’ The Great Gatsby contains an inscription from Sheridan Libraire to digitize 90 manuscripts the author T. S. Eliot in which he writes, “For of the poem held in the BNF and another 40 T.S. Elliot [sic]/Greatest of Living Poets/ from manuscripts from university and municipal his entheusiastic[sic]/worshipper/F. Scott libraries throughout France. Fizgerald/Paris Oct./1925.” There are also notes in the margin, most probably from Eliot. The Columbia University Oral History Re­ The Wittgenstein features annotations and search Office has received a grant from the corrections in the text by the author himself. Agnes Gund Foundation to record an oral The Audubon, comprising some 155 color history of women in the visual arts. The plates, is unusual in that it retains its original printed wrappers. Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; The history archives of the Washington Of­ e-mail: [email protected]. fice on Latin America (WOLA) will be donated June 2008 359 C&RL News to the Duke University Libraries. WOLA will James. Included in the collection is one of transfer its inactive physical archives, includ­ two major philosophical works, Disquisitions ing documents in the organization’s research, Relating to Matter and Spirit, as well as his advocacy, and monitoring roles regarding more revolutionary works An History of the major issues and events since the 1970s, Corruptions of Christianity , An History of including the Contra war in Nicaragua, U.S. Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, and funding for anti­drug efforts in the Andes, Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, Part I. the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, and the Fujimori government in Peru. The agreement The archives of Samuel Roth (1893–1974), with Duke will provide for the transfer of publisher and writer, have been acquired by about 100 boxes of inactive documents and Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manu­ papers from all facets of WOLA’s work. script Library. During his career Roth established bookstores in New York City that published The papers of author Ken Haruf have been and sold books, magazines, and erotica, and acquired by the Huntington. A native of Colo­ operated a mail order operation that defi ed Post rado, haruf writes novels and stories about Office censors for two decades. He founded two life in a small town on the American plains. successful literary magazines, including Beau, His fi rst novel, The Tie That Binds, received a the first American “men’s magazine.” As a pub­ PEN/Hemingway Award and a Whiting Foun­ lisher, Roth was frequently accused of violating dation Writers Award. Each of his next novels the copyrights of authors such as D. H. Lawrence have earned awards and honors: Where You and James Joyce, and was responsible for the Once Belonged (1990); Plainsong (2000), his fi rst, unauthorized editions of Lady Chatterley’s best­known book; and Eventide (2004). The Lover and Ulysses. He published a critical trea­ collection consists of extensive and multiple tise on Herbert Hoover that helped defeat the corrected drafts of Haruf’s novel, short stories, President in 1932. In 1951 he issued My Sister poems, and essays, as well as correspondence and I, purportedly a memoir by Nietzsche with editors, publishers, and such authors as about his incestuous relationship with his sister. John Irving and Annie Proulx. Its authenticity is still being debated. Roth last achieved notoriety in 1957 as the appellant in The writings of Joseph Priestly (1733– the Supreme Court case, Roth v. United States. 1804)—the Unitarian minister, educator, theo­ The minority decision in the case opened the logian, historian, and political radical, best way to Constitutional protection for expression known for the discovery of oxygen—have previously censored for indecency, and became been acquired by Urbana University. Born a a template for the liberalizing First Amendment cloth­dresser’s son at Fieldhead in Birdstall decisions of the 1960s. The archive contains Parish, Leeds was ordained a minister in letters and manuscripts from Edwin Arlington 1762. He became a close friend of Benjamin Robinson, Maurice Samuel, Frank Tannenbaum, Franklin, who encouraged his work in sci­ Israel Zangwill, Clement Wood, T. S. Eliot, Ezra ence and politics. Priestley founded the fi rst Pound, Aldous Huxley, H.D., Claude McKay, Unitarian church in America. Described as the George Sylvester Viereck, Harry Roskolenko, most important English writer on education and Gay Talese. It also contains Roth’s FBI fi les between John Locke and Herbert Spencer, and transcripts of court cases and photographs, he was consulted by Thomas Jefferson on as well as Roth’s own writings, including his the curriculum for the University of Virginia anti­Semitic screed Jews Must Live, his prison that Jefferson was in the process of founding. memoir, his large body of unpublished essays This 30­volume collection was part of the and novels, his personal letters, and his own personal library of John James, who donated poetry. Both his unpublished autobiography and land for Urbana University in Ohio and many his daughter’s unfinished memoir of her father volumes contain handwritten annotations by are also included in the collection. C&RL News June 2008 360.