Ann­Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

The New York University (NYU) Division of The collection of Sheffield’s papers includes Libraries has received a $100,000 grant from correspondence from 1977 to 2001; manu- the Leon Levy Foundation for an oral history scripts for approximately 160 written works, project that will help document the transfor- including novels, short stores, and nonfi ction mative impact of renowned chef James Beard works; the author’s notebooks from 1984 to and his circle on American food culture. Ac- 1995; and records of contracts, publishers’ cording to Marvin J. Taylor, head of NYU’s lists, and awards. Additionally, authors Nancy Fales Library and curator of the Food Studies Kress, Joe Haldeman, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Collection, New York City was at the center and Elizabeth Hand, as well as collector Rusty of a post-war food revolution, thanks to a Havelin, have donated their science fi ction group of chefs and writers based there who collections to the libraries through estate gifts. were among the first to think about distinctly British novelist Brian Aldiss, whose 1969 short American food and American taste. They in- story Super­Toys Last All Summer was the cluded Beard, whose papers are in the Fales basis for Steven Spielberg’s fi lm A.I. Artifi cial collection; Cecily Brownstone, whose collec- Intelligence, has also donated a collection to tion of 8,000 cookbooks, 5,000 pamphlets, and the libraries. personal correspondence with food writers and authors became the cornerstone of the The papers of Lou Cannon, presidential collection; Clementine Paddleford, Joe Baum, biographer and former White House corre- Craig Claiborne, Julia Child, and Pierre Franey. spondent, have been acquired by the Uni- To that end, Fales Library has begun a two- versity Library at the University of Califor- year project of interviews with a selected list nia-Santa Barbara. Cannon wrote fi ve books of New York chefs, restaurateurs, writers, food about the legacy of Ronald W. Reagan and critics, and farmers market founders, including four other books, including Offi cial Negli­ Mimi Sheraton, Saul Zabar, Betty Fussell, Lidia gence, a comprehensive social history about Bastianich, and Florent Morellet. Journalist and the beating and the 1992 Los former food reporter Judith Weinraub, winner Angeles riots. Cannon is widely considered of two James Beard awards for journalism, will the nation’s leading authority on the career conduct the interviews this year and next. The and administrations of President Reagan. He resulting tapes and transcripts will be a source covered politics for for of material for scholars, educators, and writ- 26 years and was a Sacramento reporter for ers and will become part of the Fales Food the San Jose Mercury News early in his ca- Studies Collection. reer. The collections contain primary source material gathered for his books Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey (1969); Reagan Acquisitions (1982), President Reagan: The Role of a Life­ time (1991), Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (2003), and Official Negligence: How Physicist and science fiction author Charles Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los An­ Sheffield’s (1935–2002) correspondence and geles (1997). The Rodney King, manuscript collection has been acquired by Riots Collection also contains extensive inter- the University of South Florida Libraries. views, as well as court documents, materials related to the investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department, and files on police bru- Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; tality, racism, race relations, the Christopher e-mail: [email protected]. Commission, and the rebuilding of Los Ange-

C&RL News June 2009 372 les, for example. Included in the collection is a would carve an illustration in it each time heart-wrenching memoir by the schoolchildren they met at Bauer’s offi ce. of Central Los Angeles. In English and Spanish, poetry, and with pencil drawings, they wrote A collection of works by Thomas Merton— about what they saw and how it affected their writer, poet, social critic, religious thinker, and lives in “What I Remember About the Riots.” monk—has been donated to the University of Arkansas Libraries-Fayetteville. Included in A first edition Catesby has been acquired the collection are 156 first editions by Mer- by the University of South Carolina. Susan ton, 192 other Merton editions, and another Gibbes Robinson, a leading Columbia, South 142 first-edition volumes written by scholars Carolina educator and philanthropist, gave about Merton. The collection also includes the rare, first edition copy of Mark Catesby’s essays, bibliographies, journals and issues of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, journals on Merton, and more than 100 re- and the Bahama Islands cordings. Thomas Mer- to the university. The ton (1915–68) was the two volumes, published author of more than 70 in London beginning in books that include po- 1731, contain the works etry, personal journals, of the British natural- collections of letters, and ist (1683–1749) during writings on social criti- his four-year journey cism, peace, justice, and through the American ecumenism. Merton’s Southeast. The volumes early education was in contain 220 hand-col- England and France; af- ored copper-plate en- An engraving of a parrot from Catesby’s The ter a year at Cambridge gravings of fl ora and Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the University in England, he fauna, with descriptions Bahama Islands entered Columbia Uni- in English and French in versity in New York.He parallel columns on the facing pages. entered the Abbey of Gethsemani near Lou- isville, Kentucky, and was ordained a Catholic A collection of German composer Paul Hin­ priest in 1949. Merton’s first published works demith’s (1895–1963) papers and memo- were books of poetry, but it was the publica- rabilia has been donated to the Gumberg Li- tion of his best-selling autobiographical Seven brary at Duquesne University. The Hindemith Storey Mountain (1948). From the publication collection consists of documents, photo- of that book onward, Merton’s writings had graphs, articles, pamphlets, and books il- a dramatic impact on social attitudes toward lustrating various aspects of Hindemith’s Christian spirituality—especially contemplative life. It also includes a large number of spirituality—during the 20th century. Works photocopied letters along with postcards that reflect Merton’s keen interest in solitude Hindemith both sent and received. There and contemplation as an antidote to what he are photographs of Hindemith at varying calls “the murderous din of our materialism,” times of his life, including rare images include Seeds of Contemplation (1949) and The of his childhood. Some original artwork, Silent Life (1957). Other works such as The such as hand-made post cards and a puz- Way of Chuang Tzu (1965) and Mystics and zle he made as a gift, are unique items of Zen Masters (1968) reflect his keen interest in the collection. A wooden panel from Karl Eastern philosophy and mysticism. Works such Bauer’s (editor at the American branch of as Faith and Violence (1968) and The Non­ publisher B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz) desk violent Alternative (1980) show his passionate has special significance since Hindemith stance against war and violence.

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