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TheLibraJy Deve~ment --Report 1980-81 EDITED BY JOHN DOBSON Twenty-first Report

The University of Tennessee Record (ISSN 0162-3966) Volume 84, Issue No. 4, September 1981. Published monthly except February, April , May , June, August, October, and December by The University of Tennessee 37916 Second class postage paid at Knoxville , Tennessee On the north wall of the entrance to the John C. Hodges (Undergraduate) Library is a plaque with the inscription : "To provide for the undergraduate a sense of the first-rate in the ideas which men have been communicating to men for several hundred years". ' Across the plaza on the south wall of the building is another plaque which just as eloquently conveys its message. It reads, in part: "Named in honor of John Cunyus Hodges, 1892-1967, educator, author, administrator, scholar, philanthropist and benefactor without equal of the University of Tennessee Libraries . .." Both men, John E. Burchard and John C . Hodges , passionate believers in the power of ideas and their importance in improving the quality of the mind , recognized libraries as the natural repositories for man's accumulated knowledge . Dr. Hodges believed just as passionately that contributions from the private sector were essential to the sustained growth of a library serving a state-assisted institution such as the University of Tennessee. It was in 1959-60 that Dr. Hodges offered his services as coordinator for the Library Development Program and set about imparting to the University community, alumni and friends, and the people of Tennessee the importance of the library as the "heart of the university." He not only preached his convictions, he also practiced them . Dr. Hodges' interest in scholarship and the poet-dramatist William Congreve (1670-1729) culminated in a skillful selection of more than one hundred pre-1800 editions of this author's works. His Congreve collection, which ranks among the finest extant, was a legacy to the University of Tennessee Library in 1967. His financial gifts, richly abundant, served as the basis for the Library Development Program which is now coordinated by the University's Office of Development. Within each of the major programs sponsored by this office, the library , as a vital segment of the University, is both prominent and visible . Currently, the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge grant, if accomplished, promises to provide generous funds for immediate acquisitions and income from an endowment for future growth . I have been a part of the Library Development Program and have helped tend its growth through the first , faint beginnings to the well-defined and visible program it is today. It f,' must be nurtured if it is to survive. The indefinable line which exists between a good library and a truly great one can be measured by the library's ability to acquire materials. Funds deriving from the public domain cannot fulfill this need . Only through the generous help of our friends and benefactors can we .. hope to dissolve this fiscal barrier and to create within this library a collection worthy of the University's mission , that of "premier research institution within the state of Tennessee ." O~ 11.fbr~

'Burchard, John E., The library's function in education. (Library Lecture #3, UniverSity of Tennessee Library, Knoxville , June 3 , 1950) SomeNotable Acquisitions

three page autograph letter from Andrew Jackson to Captain Richard K. Call. The letter, dated Hermitage, March 25, 1822, confides to Captain Call some ramifications of the Fromentin controversy. Captain Call (later General Call) was a young officer who had served bravely under Jackson in the Creek war and later became Jackson's secretary and aide-de-camp. In commenting on the friendship that developed between them, Jackson wrote in another letter, ".. .I cherished your youthful merit for your countries good, and aided in promoting your rank as your merit increased, and your Talents were disclosed to me ..." The Fromentin affair, with which Jackson's letter to Call is concerned, developed shortly after Jackson assumed the governorship of the newly acquired Florida territory. Elijius Fromentin, a man with a somewhat tarnished past, had been granted a temporary appointment as Judge of the United States for West Florida by President Monroe. Jackson and Fromentin came into collision over the treatment of a Spanish official at Pensacola. General Jackson's powers as Governor of Florida were extraordinary, and records relating to private property that but strictly limited. "Know ye," read his Jackson felt should have been placed in The Fromentin Affair: commission, "that reposing special trust the custody of the American government. Andrew Jackson to Captain Call and confidence in the integrity, patriotism, When Colonel Callava, not fully It is a pleasure to report again this and abilities of Major General Andrew understanding the order, failed to release year the acquisition of important Andrew Jackson, I do appoint him to exercise all the records promptly, Jackson angrily Jackson manuscript pieces. Without the the powers and authorities heretofore ordered him arrested and placed in assistance of friends and benefactors of the exercised by the governor and captain­ confinement. The respected and genteel library, it would not have been possible to general and intendant of Cuba, and by the Spanish official was unceremoniously put take these pieces out of the hands of governors of East and West Florida." In a in Pensacola's infamous calaboose. private collectors and place them in an show of this authority, Don Jose Callava, According to Jackson's biographer, James appropriate Tennessee public institution. Colonel in the Spanish Army and ex­ Parton, "the calaboose was as forlorn, The most significant Jackson item to Governor of Pensacola, was ordered to dirty, and uncomfortable edifice as can be come into the repository in some time is a turn over to Jackson a group of papers imagined." A group of leading citizens and 3 former Spanish officials of Pensacola, and secured the letter from Jackson (from outraged at Jackson's undignified treatment which the library's copy was made) praising of Don Jose, prevailed upon Judge Grundy's fight against nullification. Fromentin to issue a writ providing for Jackson's letter, dated Washington, release of the ex-Governor. May 19, 1833, stated in part, "I feel at At about the same time the disputed liberty to repeat now what I have often said records were delivered , and Jackson before in conversation: that your conduct himself ordered Don Jose released. The during the last session of Congress in order for the discharge was written , signed, opposition to the absurd and wicked and about to be issued when the writ of doctrines of Nullification and Secession was habeas corpus granted by Judge Fromentin highly useful & energetic, and throughout, was received. Jackson was enraged that as far as I could judge from your votes and Fromentin dared to interfere. The Judge conversation, no one could have was summoned into Jackson's presence manifested a greater zeal to give effect to and reprimanded severely. Because the measures of the Administration. In complaints registered by both Fromentin and stating thus generally my opinion of your Callava caused a turmoil in Washington, conduct in the senate, on the subject Jackson soon resigned his appointment and alluded to, I trust no one will infer that I returned to the Hermitage. have any object in view , but to satisfy you The letter to Captain Call Felix Grundy, from a portrait in the that I am uncapable of doing you injustice." demonstrates vividly the concern Jackson Tennessee State Library and Archives. With this letter to aid him, Grundy entered felt about the episode in Florida. It states in the senatorial contest in the legislature of Felix Grundy, Andrew Jackson, part, "upon great consideration, on the 1833. Ephraim H. Foster, John Bell, and and Nullification recp't of the documents, and a sight of John H. Eaton were his opponents, and it Felix Grundy, a brilliant criminal Fromentines letters to the Sec. of State (for was not until the fifty -fifth ballot that lawyer of Nashville and a Tennessee baseness falsehood & impudence has not Grundy was victorious. statesman of some renown , wrote to their parallel, and which the Judge never The handwritten transcripts of the Andrew Jackson on May 6, 1833, expected to be before the public) I Jackson and Grundy letters now available concerning vital questions of the time ­ adressed a letter to Mr. Monroe, calling, in the library's manuscript division are nullification and secession. Jackson was on him for an explanation in a friendly marked "True copies of the originals in my asked to comment on Grundy's stand in way, of the 'good cause he has to believe,' possession ." [signed] uF. Grundy." This Congress as an opponent of these that Fromentine & myself thought we were sheet, one letter on each side, was perhaps doctrines. Jackson's reply was made public both acting agreable to our respective a copy used to make Jackson's supportive by Grundy and was used to advantage in powers.. .I will await his answer to my late remarks public for political purposes. the senatorial contest of 1833. True copies letter - if he chooses to explain, & that of this exchange of letters, made at the Creeks and Cherokees explanation is satisfactory, I will be silent, time from originals in Grundy's possession Several interesting additions to the but should he not answer my letter, or if and attested to by Grundy, were recently Southern Indian Collection have been he answers & that should not be obtained by the library. obtained by the library in recent months, satisfactory, I have determined on my The Grundy-Jackson letters show underwritten by contributors who course - and when I state the facts to the that the controversy over nullification had earmarked their gifts for Special Collections nation -If I mistake not the public, will its repercussions in Tennessee. The to acquire rare and unusual materials. judge rightly - and Mr . Monroe will go out nullification doctrine gave a state the right Notable among the Indian related of office with less popularity than any to determine the constitutionality of an act pieces are two maps of the Cherokee president that preceeded him -I have been of Congress and to declare null and void Country. The earliest "A New Map of the perfectly silent, and mean to maintain that within its boundaries an act it considered Cherokee Nation ," published in London course until congress disposes of the unconstitutional. Senator Grundy was a about 1760, shows the towns and rivers as Florida business -I have not even wrote to close friend of John C. Calhoun, a leader they were thought to be situated at that one member of Congress, nor do I mean in the development of the nullification time. It is a small black and white chart to do so - but I trust when it is over I shall doctrine , and had made a speech in 1830 measuring only eight by ten inches. The speak, and that with effect - When my that led enemies to charge him with other map, published in Venice in 1778, is friends at Pensacola reads Mr . Fromentines support of nullification , contributing to his larger (fifteen by twenty-two inches) and is letters to the Secretary of State, I expect he defeat for reelection to the senate by the rendered with color outlines. The Italian will find hot weather there ... ." legislature in October 1832. Grundy was in chart, entitled "Il Paese de Cherachesi, con An additional Jackson related danger of being placed in open opposition la Parte Occidentale della Carolina manuscript, an exchange between Jackson to the President, which might have meant Settentrionale, e della Virginia," indicates and Felix Grundy, is described in another political death . With some difficulty he rivers, Villages, mountains, and trails . Both part of this report. Both items enrich the made an about-face and championed the geographical delineations will be of library's holdings in primary sources for use of force against the nullifiers. He research value to students of Indian lore study of the Jacksonian period. • retained President Jackson's friendship , and to archaeologists.

4 Also new to the library's Indian Nation and held that position until his Indians Collection is a letter from James holdings are three handsome color prints death . The prints were all published in Crokatt to an associate in Edinburgh . of tribal chieftains. That of the Creek chief Philadelphia and issued between 1836 and Crokatt's letter, dated Charlestown, May 6, Se-Loc-Ta (see cover) ties in nicely with 1845. 1761 , reports on business matters and the emphasis on materials centered around A manuscript, which is really a gives the following news of developments Andrew Jackson and his times. Se-Loc-Ta companion piece to the John Ross letter in the New World: "Colonel Grant with served with General Jackson during the described in last year's report, has now upwards of 2,000 men is within a few days Indian conflicts preceding the War of 1812. been placed in the collection . The Ross march of Fort Prince George in the It was said of Se-Loc-Ta's service with letter, dated November I , 1834, Cherokee Nation. No Indian has been seen Jackson's army that he was "an intelligent authorized Edward Gunter to engage near his encampments since he left the and sagacious guide during its marches, James W. McClung, an attorney of settlements, it is thought he will make and a brave warrior and leader in battle." Huntsville, Alabama, to defend the rights peace with the savages and so embark for The o!her prints, all mea~uring nineteen by of the Cherokee Nation and its citizens the Missisipi and Mobile , and as there is an ., fourteen inches, are of Cherokee chiefs against all suits which might be brought expedition on foot at New York said to be John Ross and David Vann . The Library before the courts of that state. The recently against those places its not doubted but the Development Program Report for 1979-80 procured manuscript, dated December 12, entire conquest of North America will be described an important John Ross letter 1834, is the Articles of Agreement entered compleated this ensuing campaign." placed in the repository last year. Ross was into by Edward Gunter, agent of John These maps, prints, and manuscripts one of the most influential figures in the Ross, and James W. McClung, providing supplement in a significant way the history of the Cherokee nation as principal for McClung's services as attorney at law resources being gathered for the study of chief and head of various delegations for the Nation. McClung, a former the area's aboriginal inhabitants. The library visiting Washington to defend the right of Knoxvillian , was a nephew of Hugh is grateful to contributors whose gifts make the Cherokees to their eastern territory. Lawson White . possible the purchase of such items. • After removal to the Indian Territory he Another recent manuscript was chosen chief of the United Cherokee acquisition appropriate to the Southern

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The Hills of Cerro Gordo. Engraving from The Twelve Months Volunteer (Cincinnati, 1848)

Tennessee Cavalry at Cerro Gordo and precipitous ravines. The highest and hands this year. An unidentified member of In the war with Mexico, 1846-47, a strongest point rose 950 feet above the Captain Caswell's company of Tennessee pivotal engagement was the Battle of Cerro river which ran in a deep ravine on the cavalry kept the journal from April 9 Gordo. This American victory cleared the southern side. It was at this forbidding sight through May 4 , 1847. The twenty-page fortified heights of Cerro Gordo and that a group of gallant Tennessee soldiers handwritten account takes the company opened the way for the advance on played an important role. from Vera Cruz to the approaches of Mexico City . The battleground was a vast The role of the Tennesseans is Puebla, but it concentrates on the struggle collection of massive hills , divided by deep detailed in a journal that came into library for Cerro Gordo on April 18. Captain

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Caswell's trooper describes the battle scene 20,000 dollars in silver coin and his Mexicans, that their left was the only place in vivid phrases and includes details that wooden leg. How many soldiers escaped that could be assailed, and the formidable are unlikely to be found in published we do not know, but their number when preparations there made for the reception histories. we went into action is said to have been of the Americans, and their confidence of The narrative for April 18 begins, "In 15000." being able to repulse Gen. Pillow, yet the obedience to orders we mounted at 6 The magnitude of the victory at attention and force to do this, thus o'clock haVing had an early breakfast and Cerro Gordo is underscored by other withdrawn from Cerro Gordo and their fed and watered our horses - Our arms accounts written by participants. George right, lost them these positions, before the were in order, our horse equipment all Furber in his book, The Twelve Months sweeping, restless charges of Col. Harney, snugly fitted on. We formed our company Volunteer (Cincinnati, 1848) spoke of it in Col. Riley, and Gen. Shields; and their as the several regiments of the Brigade the following terms: "Never, in any battle, batteries on the left were then untenable formed their lines - we knew we were have been a superior and excellently being completely commanded by Cerro going into battle with an enemy who by fortified force more completely out­ Gordo." reason of their strong position must generaled, and more decisively and The Mexican War journal could not necessarily make a stand, and many of our promptly defeated in consequence, than have been acquired without the assistance comrades who were now standing under were the Mexicans in their almost of library patrons. Such manuscript arms would never live through the day. impregnable position at Cerro Gordo. resources enrich the collection by We thought of the character of our state Strong as was the main hill, they relied too introducing an element of authenticity to and country, of our individual character, much upon it. The very opinion of the research that would be otherwise lacking. and all resolved rather to die upon the field than discredit either - Our company marched at the head of the column, until we left the main road & commenced the ascent of the eminence upon which the enemy was in position where we were to make the attack. .. ." It continues to relate incidents of the assault and the fruits of victory: "6000 prisoners of war were guarded into camp. Santa Anna [the Mexican commander) fled in great precipitation leaving his private carriage,

6 John Clemens in Jamestown Fentress County, Tennessee, by AR. for the years 1828 and 1829 to pay for A small group of papers acquired Hoque, published in 1920. Hoque building the courthouse; and a deed for this year document the presence of Mark describes the jail and courthouse Fentress County land, dated September 9, Twain's family in Tennessee. John M. specifications, written in the hand of 1833, signed by Clemens as Court Clerk. Clemens and his wife, Jane, lived in Clemens, as then being in the possession It was said that John Clemens had Jamestown, Fentress County for a few of the Reverend J .L. Garrett. Later they an optimistic belief in the value of Fentress years prior to the birth of their famous son, were owned by Ira Chiles, a retired UT County land and that he struggled to keep Samuel L. Clemens. The elder Clemens, a professor. The plans, let to the lowest its value a secret from the native practicing attorney at Jamestown, was bidder on March 20, 1827, called for the inhabitants. His dreams of riches from his Fentress County's first Ci(cuit Court Clerk. jail to be "a house of loggs hewed a foot Tennessee holdings were described in Mark .. Clerk Clemens officially entered and square, twelve feet in the clear, two stories Twain's book, The Gilded Age, in which obtained grants for nearly all the land in high.. ." and the courthouse "a one story Jamestown is thinly disguised as Fentress County in the late 1820s and brick house 40 feet long and 27 feet wide Obedstown. Squire Hawkins, a character 1830s. He also personally held extensive in the clear with a brick partition across so in the book modeled after Twain's father, land grants in this county. In addition to as to make a courtroom 30 feet remarked to his wife, "...all that is other pursuits, he drew up plans for the square... ." necessary to hold this land and keep it in first courthouse and the first jail built in Other pieces in the Clemens papers the family is to pay the trifling taxes on it Jamestown in 1827. include an account of tax monies received yearly - five or ten dollars - the whole tract The four holograph pages of plans from "sundry persons" for building the would not sell for over a third of a cent an and specifications for the jail and courthouse, three pages handwritten by acre now, but some day people will be courthouse are among the Clemens Clemens, dated August I, 1829; a receipt glad to get it for twenty dollars, fifty manuscripts recently directed to the library. to the Board of Commissioners of dollars, a hundred dollars ...a thousand A transcription of these same building Jamestown (signed by Clemens), for the dollars an acre!" specifications appeared in History of amount of $82.561/2 in special taxes levied In reality the efforts of Clemens heirs

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The Squire's House in Obedstown. ll/ustation from The Gilded Age (Hartford, 1874) 7 to hold the land granted to John Clemens resulted in much litigation. Strangers attempted to buy it up by paying the taxes, and tenants were settled on it. The final returns to the Clemens heirs on the large holdings were very meager. The papers that have recently come into the library's possession are highly significant, recalling John Clemens' role in the development of Fentress County and Mark Twain's ties with Tennessee. The Clemens family migrated to Missouri only a few months before the birth of Samuel L. Clemens.

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Obedstown Males. Illustration from The Gilded Age (Hartford, 1874)

A Journalist of Note: Don Whitehead remaining until 1941, when AP transferred The adventure-filled career of Don him to New York as a feature writer. His Whitehead, who gained worldwide fame as relationship with AP lasted twenty-one an Associated Press newsman, is reflected years. in a collection of scrapbooks, papers, Whitehead wrote his first book, the photographs, and manuscripts given to the best-selling The FBI Story, in 1956. He library in January. The collection was later wrote four others, Journey Into conveyed to the University by the Pulitzer Crime, Attack on Terror, Border Guard, Prize winner's daughter, Ruth Whitehead and The Dow Story. The FBI Story was Graham, shortly after her father's death, on made into a successful movie. Some of his January 12, 1981. books were written after his return to As an Associated Press Knoxville in 1959 to begin a thrice-weekly correspondent, Whitehead told in lucid column for the News-Sentinel. prose the big and little details of five Writing columns back in Knoxville invasions in World War II and the Korean was a change of pace from the hectic life War. His first war assignment came in of a war correspondent. Whitehead wrote 1942 when he joined the British Eighth relaxed, amusing stories about East Army in its pursuit of Rommel's German Tennesseans, reminiscent pieces about his panzers across the sands of North Africa. war years, and pieces about old warriors .. He then joined American forces for assault and fellow war correspondents. ACME photo by Bert Brandt landings on Sicily in 1943, followed by The Whitehead collection now in the invasions of Italy at Salerno and Anzio. His Virginia, in 1908. He grew up in Kentucky library details a forty-year newspaper biggest invasion was the Allied attack on and attended the University of Kentucky career. It includes twenty-eight scrapbooks Europe in Normandy on June 6, 1944. for a short while before beginning his (containing clippings, photographs, letters, In 1951 and 1952 he was awarded lifework as a journalist. He was associated and memorabilia), and an extensive file of Pulitzer Prizes for his stories covering with newspapers in LaFollette, Tennessee, newspaper columns, literary manuscripts, actions of the Korean War. He was one of Harlan, Kentucky, and Knoxville prior to research papers, and correspondence. The only seven news reporters ever to win two his first assignment with Associated Press at library is honored to be the repository Pulitzer Prizes. Memphis in 1935. He returned to holding the record of Don Whitehead's Don Whitehead was born in Inman, Knoxville in 1937 as AP correspondent, distinguished career. • 8 --

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Rare Tennessee Almanacs published almost a decade earlier by a The three almanacs published in The 1975-76 Library Development press in Fayetteville, Tennessee. An ad for Fayetteville contain, besides the usual Program Report proudly recorded the the printery in one of the almanacs astronomical calculations, lists of the acquisition of a series of Davy Crockett announces, "E. & J.B. Hill, Printers, executives of the United States, governors Almanacks, with the following comments: Messenger Office, Fayetteville, Ten. of the different states, senators and "Almanacs are part and parcel of the Respectfully inform the Public that they are representatives in Congress, government American tradition. Keeping pace with prepared to execute orders for Job Printing and legislature of Tennessee, generals of newspapers and books, they became much of every description, Books, Pamphlets, militia, directors of the Bank of the State, more than little booklets' charting sunshine Circulars, Cards, Hand Bills, Horse Bills, judges of the different courts, time of and storm. They were books of scientific Blanks, Ball Tickets, Lottery Tickets, &c. holding county and circuit courts with the facts and of news and fiction as well. They &c. with neatness, accuracy, dispatch, and clerks of each, a list of roads, rates of presented historical notes, literary sketches, on the most reasonable terms for prompt postage, a table of foreign coins, an jests, aphorisms, tall tales and comic pay." interest table, and a variety of anecdotes, illustrations. Among the most distinctive of The Tennessee Imprints Inventory (A riddles, puzzles, conundrums, remedies, these are the Crockett Almanacks, first Check List of Tennessee Imprints, and recipes. They are calculated for the published in Nashville for the years 1835 1793-1840) attests to the rarity of the Hills' meridian of FayetteVille, but will apply with through 1841." The library is still proud of Tennessee Almanac and State Register. little or no variations to any of the its Crockett Almanacks, but it is equally The Inventory records only the imperfect adjoining counties in Tennessee and proud of a three-year series of almanacs copies of the 1826 and 1827 issues Alabama. acquired this year. present in the Tennessee State Library and The library feels a responsibility for, The almanacs newly placed in the Archives. The 1828 issue is apparently an and has a great interest in preserving ,early collection through the use of gift funds are unrecorded Tennessee imprint. It is always Tennessee materials of all kinds. One of its Hills' Tennessee Almanac and State a source of great satisfaciton when the goals is to hold the primary collection of Register for the years 1826, 1827, and library possesses what seems to be a Tennesseana in the state. The acquisition 1828. These almanacs, which may be even unique copy of a Tennessee of the FayetteVille almanacs is an important rarer than the Crockett titles, were publication. step in that direction.' •

9 John Scopes (center) and friends peruse Darwin's Origin of the Species in drugstore discussion.

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Robinson's Drugstore, Dayton, Tennessee. Market Street, looking south, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925. 10 Sue K. Hicks and the Scopes Trial It was Hicks who requested that principals' notes in them are a research The library's Special Collections Bryan, three-time Democratic nominee for resource of the first importance. division recently was given the personal president and former secretary of state In the 1925 trial, which lasted eleven papers and books of Judge Sue K. Hicks, under President Woodrow Wilson, be the days and brought world-wide attention to an official at the famous Dayton trial that state's chief prosecutor. the small town of Dayton, school teacher tested Tennessee's evolution law designed Bryan's handwritten reply and offer John Scopes was convicted of teaching the to ban the teaching of any theory denying to "serve without compensation" is among theory of evolution. The decision was the divine creation of man as taught in the the correspondence between Hicks and the reversed two years later because the court Bible. famous attorney and politician. Other exceeded its authority in fining him $100. The Hicks papers were donated to letters in the collection deal with strategy The Tennessee anti-evolution law the University by his widow, Reba Bradley for the trial and Bryan's request for was not repealed until 1967. Hicks of Madisonville. Hicks, who served "suitable" housing in Dayton. It is widely believed that a major twenty-two years as Judge of the Fourth The gift from Hicks's widow is reason for Scopes's prosecution was to Judicial Circuit, died in June 1980 at the extremely valuable in an historic sense. generate publicity for Dayton. Scopes age of 84. The gift of the papers, books, Among the papers are twenty-two books, participated in discussions with attorneys and documents was arranged by Charles including Hicks's personal copy of Darwin's and merchants about testing the law and Brakebill, the University's associate vice Origin of the Species and a signed copy of was quoted as saying the episode was "a president for development and long-time Bryan's The Menace of Darwinism, and 82 drugstore discussion which got past friend of the Hicks family. pamphlets on evolutionary theories. control." In the materials are many documents The pamphlets in the collection are A California case this year, called relating to the Dayton trial, which featured most unusual because materials of this type "Scopes II" by news media, demonstrated William Jennings Bryan and Clarence are ephemeral in nature and are not that the teaching of evolution in public Darrow as prosecuting and defense frequently retained. The original papers, schools is not yet a dead issue. attorneys, respectively. newspaper clippings, and books with the •

Dayton courtroom scene, swearing in the jury.

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The Children of Charles 1 A Lady Portraits in Miniature usage in the early part of the eighteenth In his authoritative study The History century, and was the designation for such of Portrait Miniatures, George C. paintings that were before then called Williamson explains the meaning and either "limnings" (from the French background of the appelation for small enluminer) or "paintings in little." The word pictures. In its earliest use, the word is now used mainly in the latter sense, and miniature had no reference whatsoever to a miniature means a painting on a very the size of a painting. It is derived from small scale, usually a portrait painted on minium (red lead), signifying vermilion, or ivory, card, or metal, and of such a size to the material used to decorate capital letters, be carried in a pocket. borders of pages, and headings to chapters Attention is drawn to terminology in ancient manuscripts. These decorations, applied to diminutive paintings because of called illuminations, were first executed in an impressive gift of books recently red alone, and afterwards in various colors. presented to the library by Dr. and Mrs. Later on they took the form of elpborate Howard Misner of Memphis. Dr. Misner is designs, embracing pictures of saints, a professor of oral surgery at the University portraits of persons, and religious emblems of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences. and medallions. By a further development The significant group of titles relating to the word came to be used in describing miniatures represents one of the collecting such pictures or portraits similar in size to interests of the Misners. These handsome Samuel Pepys these small illustrations on manuscripts. It is volumes are replete with illustrations taken believed that the term came into popular from the outstanding collections of Great 12 Britain, continental Europe, and America. The Ruskin band Prominent among the titles are George Williamson's two-volume The History of Portrait Miniatures (London , 1904) , cited above, and Joshua J . Foster's two-volume Miniature Painters, British and Foreign (New York, London, 1903) . Other works in the group include Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Bucc1euch; American Miniatures, 1730-1850, by Harry Wehle; La Miniature en France au XVIII 'Siec1e, by Pierre Lespinasse; and Heirlooms in Miniatures, by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton . The valuable collection on miniatures is of especial importance to artists and historians. From the artistic point of view fine miniatures possess peculiar technical features of delicacy and of beauty. From the historian's perspective genuine portraits lend a living interest to the annals of humanity. A quote from J .J . Foster's book underscores the pOint: "We see the faithful effigies of those who have played extraordinary parts and proved themselves select men amongst men; we read their countenances, we trace their characters and conduct in the unreal images, and then, as if made free of their company, follow on with redoubled animation the events in which they lived and moved and had their being." Authentic portraits are therefore things of real and deep meaning to students of art, of history, of literature, of costume, and of the past in general. The library is indebted to the Misners for making these beautiful and informative A view of Ruskin Ruskin cooks works available to its patrons. •

A 'Co-operative Commonwealth' contributed as much as $100, would be in Tennessee charter members of the colony. His intent In July 1894 Julius Augustus was said to be the creation of a practical, Wayland, the publisher of a Socialist functioning model of social reform that newspaper in Indiana, led a small band of would overcome the evils of monopoly supporters iflto a thousand-acre tract in and competition. Dickson County, Tennessee, and The first settlers who arrived at the ~ established the Ruskin Co-operative site selected by Wayland near Tennessee I Association. Wayland, through his City lived in tents until permanent , newspaper The Coming Nation, had built structures could be built. John Egerton's up a substantial folloWing with his book, Visions of Utopia (Knoxville, 1977) interpretations of the writings of John described the settlers as "middle class Ruskin, the English social theorist. people - city-dwellers, by and large, Wayland's readers were told that a craftsmen and professionals, intelligent and circulation of 100,000 would produce a well-read individuals." Egerton wrote of the surplus of around $23,000 a year, and colonists: "The depression had driven them that the money would be used to buy a to refuge in SOcialism, and the one thing tract of land upon which a Socialist colony, they held in common was a desire to a "Co-operative Commonwealth" would be escape from the competitive society and built. He promised that those who sent in start anew in an atmosphere of A Lady 200 or more subscriptions to the paper, or cooperation. There was a butcher, a baker, 13 a barber, a blacksmith; there were five called the colony 'a commendable and printers, three doctors, two ironworkers, harmless enterprise.' To observers on the and several teachers and farmers . And outside, Ruskin seemed to have arrived there was their convenor, Julius Wayland, and conquered." Two years later the who named the colony Ruskin, in honor of Ruskin experiment collapsed. Through the man whose 'great, lOVing, wise spirit' internal problems, political division, and had led them there. John Ruskin, he said, personal conflicts the colony's successful was his model and 'his mind is my operation was destroyed . inspiration.' " The details of the rise and fall of the Though controversial, the colony Ruskin Co-operative Association can be grew and prospered. At its zenith in 1897, traced in an impressive collection of books, according to Egerton, "it had assets of close manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, to $100,000, made up of 1,800 acres of research notes, and other papers land, a highly successful newspaper and generously given to the library by Dr. printing business, no less than seventy-five Francelia Butler. Dr. Butler, a member of buildings, a diversified agricultural the University of Connecticut faculty, has operation, a sawmill, a grist mill, a steam for some time collected materials in pursuit Garbo and John Gilbert in laundry, a machine shop, a cafe, a bakery, of her research on the Ruskin community Flesh and the Devil a school, a commissary, a cannery, and and is the author of a number of A Celebrated Motion several cottage industries whose products publications on the socialist colony in Picture Director: Clarence Brown were advertised and sold by mail and Middle Tennessee. Dr. Butler, who In 1973 Clarence Brown, the across the counter. Ruskin also had about formerly taught at The University of renowned motion picture director­ 250 residents who had come from thirty­ Tennessee, has often utilized the Ruskin producer, presented the library with a large two states and half a dozen foreign Co-operative Association Papers assembled collection of memorabilia relating to his countries, and they worked nine hours a by the library's manuscript division in years career. The Brown collection, amounting day at whatever jobs they agreed to past. It is a great advantage to be able to to more than 40,000 pieces, included perform, receiving in script the equivalent add Dr. Butler's materials, gleaned from shooting scripts for forty films, 1925-1952; of $5 a week for their efforts. Ostensibly, other repositories and from original groups of still photographs from fifty-two the principles of Socialism were sources, to the strong Ruskin collection productions, 1920-1952; awards, plaques, resoundingly successful. Once-hostile already present. The Butler Collection and photographs reflecting upon the neighbors had begun to admire the brought together with UTs Ruskin Papers famed director's profeSSional pursuits; industriousness of the Ruskinites, to trade forms the major research resource on this correspondence, 1927-1970; promotional with them, and even on occasion to topic. • materials, programs, clippings and reviews; socialize with them. The Nashville Banner and nine scrapbooks recording Brown's outstanding works. In accepting the gift Dr. Edward Boling, UTs preSident, commented: "This valuable collection of film memorabilia is an unusual and generous gift from one of The University of Tennessee's most distinguished alumni. This priceless collection, which was sought by other large universities with outstanding film programs, will be a major asset to the academic community." In February of 1981, Mr. and Mrs . Brown gave the library a second large group of materials bearing upon Mr . Brown's years as one of Hollywood's most accomplished directors. The new gift complements the collection received in 1973 and enriches Significantly the library's holdings in film history. Among the additions to the Brown Collection are eight scrapbooks devoted to films not previously represented in a scrapbook format, one new shooting script, about 200 photographs, a small correspondence file , and a number of miscellaneous personal Ruskin residents mementoes.

14 The new scrapbooks deal with Mr. Brown's productions, Idiots Delight (a 1939 film starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable) , The Human Comedy (a 1943 film starring Mickey Rooney) , The White Cliffs of Dover (a 1944 film starring Irene Dunne) , The Yearling (a 1947 film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman) , Song of Love (a 1947 film starring Katherine Hepburn) , The Secret Garden (a 1949 film starring Margaret O'Brien) , To Please a Lady (a 1950 film starring Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck) , and Plymouth Adventure (a 1952 film starring Spencer Tracy and Gene Tierney) . The one additional shooting script is for Plymouth Adventure. Included with the photographs in the recent gift are fifty -eight stills from the legendary production , Flesh and the Devil, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. It is particularly fitting that the Clarence Brown film collection , now Opera, Musical Comedy, year. Among the many items selected for rounded out with the supplementary and Motion Pictures the library were twenty-one scrapbooks materials detailed above, resides in the When Grace Moore, the world with extensive coverage of Grace Moore's library of the institution graced by the renowned soprano, presented a concert at profeSSional life in musical comedy, opera, nationally recognized Clarence Brown UT on November 30, 1937, a thoughtful and motion pictures. Included are many Theatre and the acting group known as the librarian asked Miss Moore to autograph a reviews of concerts presented all over the Clarence Brown Company. • copy of the program for the library. No world. Other scrapbooks are devoted to one realized then that this was the her Hollywood career. Six scrapbooks beginning of a major Grace Moore detail her tragic death with newspaper collection. Most of the collection was clippings, letters, telegrams, and cards of acquired forty years later through materials condolence to the family . One scrapbook is donated to the University by Mr. and Mrs. devoted to the movie So This Is Love, a Richard Moore. Mr . Moore, a successful film based on Miss Moore's life starring Chattanooga merchant, is Grace Moore's Kathryn Grayson . The premier for this film brother. was held at Knoxville's Tennessee Theatre Grace Moore was born in Slabtown, in 1953. Another part of the collection, Cocke County, Tennessee. The family almost 400 pieces, is Miss Moore's lived briefly in Knoxville before moving to assemblage of opera scores, art songs, and Jellico where Miss Moore grew up. Miss folk music. Several songs have dedications Moore attended the Wilson-Greene School to Miss Moore. A smaller, but very of Music in Washington, D.C., and then important, part of the collection is a group moved on to New York and studied with of letters by famous composers gathered by Marafioti. In New York her career began to Grace Moore in Paris. There are letters of blossom in musical comedy. She later went Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Charles to France to study opera and made her Gounod, Jules Massenet, Leo Delibes, Metropolitan Opera debut on February 7, Gabriel Faure and others. 1928, as Mimi in La Boheme. There The name of Grace Moore has long followed an international concert and been associated with UT through the Grace opera career, which was interrupted to Moore Music Scholarship which is awarded make several motion pictures. Her death in annually to a promising voice student. The an airplane crash near Copenhagen while McClung Museum also retains among its on a concert tour in January 1947 holdings a collection of Grace Moore deprived the world of one of its most memorabilia. colorful sopranos. The gift collection, originally Clarence Brown with actress Jane Wyman presented to the McClung Museum in at Clarence Brown Theatre opening 1977, was transferred to the library this d~~ 15 This version of the Scriptures, the hope that it will be of service in helping Geneva or the "Breeches" Bible, was first foster understanding of modern Japanese issued as a whole in 1560. About sixty literature and culture throughout the editions in all were printed during the reign communities, both professional and public, of Queen Elizabeth. Among English Bibles that are served by the library. it was the first to be divided into verses. The Shincho Nihon bungaku is The Geneva Bible became very popular Shinchosha's authoritative collection of the because it was the Bible of the classic works of modern Japanese Reformation, and because of its low costs literature. Each volume is devoted to a and handy format. The numerous particular author of high critical esteem in annotations or glosses in the margins, the Japanese literary world. While the written in a Calvinistic spirit, added much collection is aimed chiefly at presenting the to its appeal. development of modern prose writing, Along with the 16th century Bible, fiction and essay, it also contains selections Professor Allen presented the library with a of modern poetry when the author was first edition of Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps. known for poetry as well. Beginning with The Whitman volume of verse, published the first work to establish that author's in New York in 1865, is an autograph claim to serious critical attention, each The Breeches Bible, 1599 presentation copy. The title page is volume presents a selection of the author's inscribed in Whitman's hand, "To James Rare Book Memorials opus that gives the reader an excellent Fairfowl Baker, 11/28/75." The flyleaf understanding of the development of The Library Development Program opposite an inserted frontispiece portrait of themes and styles. To assemble this Report for 1977-78 carried a notice about Whitman bears the notation, "This book collection, Shinchosha brought together a newly acquired "Breeches" Bible. That was given me by Walt Whitman, over fifty of Japan's leading literary scholars Bible, a 1614 edition of the Geneva 11/28/75 [signed] James F. Baker." The and critics, whose efforts have created a version, was called unusual because it was frontispiece is signed, "Walt Whitman, superb representation of the riches and printed in black letter type instead of the Camden, Oct. 15, 1875." The Allen gift, pleasures of modern Japanese prose more common roman letter. This year the also a memorial to Ralph B. Allen, is one literature. library is fortunate to have been presented of two editions of Drum· Taps issued in Included are the works of Soseki, with another edition of the "Breeches" 1865. The second edition, which has been Toson and Ogai, the three acknowledged Bible. The nickname Breeches Bible is in the library for some years, includes founders of the art of the modern derived from the seventh verse of the first twenty-four additional pages entitled Japanese realistic novel who flourished chapter of Genesis, which reads, "Then the Sequel to Drum-Taps, When Lilacs Last in mainly in the first two decades of this eyes of them both were opened, and they the Door-yard Bloom'd, and Other Pieces. century. The Shincho Nihon bungaku also knew that they were naked, and they The sequel has a separate title page and presents the works of the Naturalists, the sewed fig tree leaves together, and made bears a Washington imprint. Both the first Shirakaba school authors, the 1920s themselves breeches" (instead of "aprons") . and second editions are considered rare coterie centering on Akutagawa, the Neo­ The recent gift, imprinted in London books and are much sought after volumes. Sensualists, the Proletarian writers, a in 1599 by the deputies of Christopher It is a matter of pride to have now the first comprehensive selection of post-war Barker, was presented to the library by edition of Drum· Taps on the shelves to authors, and, finally, a large number of Ralph G. Allen as a memorial to his father, accompany the growing number of unusual Ralph B. Allen. The Bible has been authors independent of any generally Whitman pieces in the collection. handed down in the Allen family for recognized school or tendency. Each The library is grateful to Professor generations. Dr. Allen, a professor of volume, bound in buff and brown, is Allen for placing the 16th century Bible speech and theatre at The University of accompanied by an interpretive essay of and the Whitman first edition in the Special Tennessee, is director of the much the works and the author, as well as a Collections division. Such gifts contribute acclaimed Clarence Brown Company. definitive chronology. greatly toward developing a rare book The Allen copy of the "Breeches" The addition of this collection to collection of distinction at The University of Bible is in excellent condition and is library holdings is greatly appreciated by all Tennessee. • members of the University community complete with all books, added title pages, interested in Japanese literature. It will long and illustrations. Another copy of the 1599 edition in the library collection for many Shincho Nihon bungaku serve us as a valuable research and teaching tool in the work of the Asian years is not only imperfect in several The Shinchosha, one of Japan's Studies Committee and makes accessible details, but seems to be a variant printing most eminent publishing houses, has the pleasures of literature to the general with differing bibliographic points. Since it generously donated the Shincho Nihon reading public in a unique and thoughtful is important for bookmen and scholars to bungaku, a Sixty-four volume set of examine more than one issue of a rare modern Japanese literature in Japanese, to way. title, the library is particularly pleased to the library. Through the recommendation count an additional "Breeches" Bible of Mr. Nitta Hiroshi, editor-in-chief, among its holdings. Shinchosha donated this set with the firm ~1 • 16 An Architecture Collection (Paris, ca. 1900). Photographic records of 1927. He was born in 1903 in Springfield, The historic architecture collections historic structures are also represented, Ohio. of the University library were considerably including English country houses, portfolio The Rugh papers are largely made enriched this year by a gift of books from volumes on Italian cities, and the works of up of reprinted articles gathered during a the library of the late Edward E. McKim, Mead, and White. Rounding out long career in scientific research. These are Dougherty, a Nashville architect. Although the collection are various reference works, interspersed with notes and marginalia. the volumes, numbering approximately such as Julien Guadet's Elements et theorie The articles relate to Dr. Rugh's varied 100 in all, were originally given in 1974 to de l'architecture (Paris, 1902), Jacques­ profeSSional interests in the field of the UT School of Architecture by the Francois Blondel's L'architecture francaise radiobiology. There are presently about Southern Baptist Sunday Sfhool Board, (Paris, reissue ca. 1900), and the 9,000 pieces in the collection, including they were donated this year to the library premiated designs from the Prix de Rome fifty-four published volumes. Another part so that they might be made more competitions 1850-1900 (Paris, ca. 1900). of the gift due to be delivered shortly will accessible to the academic community. The consist of an extensive card file detailing titles reflect the architectural tastes and Dr. Rugh's research activities along with a practical profeSSional concerns of their ~~~ complete file of his most recent working owner, a practitioner in both Georgia and papers. Tennessee. • Another collection of scientific Mr. Dougherty, who was born in Radiation Biology Archives reprints was given to the library by Dr. 1876 and died in 1944, studied at the It is our pleasure this year to again Howard H. Vogel, Jr., of Memphis. Dr. University of Georgia and Cornell announce major gifts of materials in the Vogel, now retired, was professor of University before entering the Ecole des field of radiobiology. The radiobiology radiation oncology and professor of Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1900. This was a collection has been assembled through the physiology and biophysics at The pattern of education followed by many late efforts of Dr. Alexander Hollaender of University of Tennessee Center for the 19th and early 20th century American Associated Universities of Washington, Health Sciences. The 4,000 reprints architects, and it set Mr. Dougherty's D.C. Dr. Hollaender is a former professor devoted to radiation biology and animal preference for design in the eclectic mode of biomedical sciences at The University of behavior are well-organized and indexed prevalent at the time. In his practice, Mr. Tennessee and director of the Archival for easy access. Dr. Vogel, who was Dougherty generally employed classical Center for Radiation Biology, School of trained as an undergraduate at BowdOin, motifs, as in the Belle Meade Country Club Biomedical Science, Oak Ridge. A recent received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from (Nashville, 1914-16), the First Baptist gift, the papers of Roberts Rugh, was Harvard. The interest Dr. Vogel Church (Knoxville, 1924), and the War arranged through the good offices of Dr. demonstrated in the Radiation Biology Memorial (Nashville, 1928), although he William M. Leach with Dr. Hollaender's Archives in Knoxville is evidenced by the also worked in medieval styles, as in assistance. Dr. Leach is chief, Experimental fact that he personally delivered his Hunter's Hill (Nashville, 1928). It was as a Studies Branch, Division of Biological extensive files to the library portals. church designer that Mr. Dougherty Effects, Department of Health and Human Researchers making use of the library's became best known, however, being SerVices, Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Leach extensive resources in the field of responsible for Baptist churches in various negotiated with Mrs. Rugh for the gift to radiobiology are fortunate to have the southern cities in addition to the Knoxville UT and attended to its transfer to benefit of Dr. Vogel's collection. church. In recognition of his contributions Knoxville. The impressive array of source to architecture, his colleagues in the Dr. Roberts Rugh, who died in materials in radiation biology now held by American Institute of Architects elected him 1980, was resident biologist with the the library is greatly enhanced by the to their prestigious College of Fellows. Bureau of Radiological Health of the addition of the Rugh collection and Vogel From an inventory of Mr. Dougherty's Department of Health, Education and collection. The University is grateful to Dr. library, one can obtain an understanding of Welfare from 1971 to 1980. Prior to his Vogel and Mrs. Rugh for their important the source material utilized in his position with HEW, Dr. Rugh was gifts and to Dr. Leach for his great service professional work. There are volumes of professor of biology at the College of in bringing the Rugh papers to the measured drawings of buildings and Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia repository here. Dr. Holiaender's ornament from medieval, Renaissance, and University, from 1948 to 1971. He also enthusiasm in gathering appropriate files baroque periods, including such notable held the position of assistant professor of for the Knoxville archive is also highly works as A Book of Architecture by James biology at New York University from 1939 appreciated. Gibbs (London, second edition, 1739), to 1948. Dr. Rugh held teaching posts at Dr. Hollaender in his wide travels Edifices de Rome moderne by Paul Oberlin, Lawrence, and Hunter colleges continues making contacts with Letarouilly (PariS, 1868), Examples of after earning the Ph.D. in zoology from international radiobiologists and encourages Gothic Architecture Selected from Various Columbia in 1935. His thesis was entitled, them to give or bequeath their records to Ancient Edifices in England by August "The Effects of Radiations, Including the University. As was stated in last year's Welby Pugin (London, 1821-40), and Ionizing Radiations, Microwave and Ultra Library Development Program Report, "Dr. Fragments d'architecture antique and Sound by the Developing Mammalian Hollaender has developed one of the Fragments d'architecture du moyen age et Fetus." Dr. Rugh's B.A. and M.A. degrees nation's outstanding archival centers de la Renaissance by Henri d'Espouy were granted by Oberlin in 1926 and devoted to radiation biology." •

17 Collections of Books guest conductor for several international familiar to students of American and The infusion of gift materials into our orchestras, continues his musical interests English literatures. This collection includes collections is one which can never be and holds the honorable title of Composer editions of the complete works of Ralph accurately anticipated in frequency, size, or Laureate for the State of Tennessee. Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, source. We are fortunate to have received Mrs . Smeltzer, a valued associate in and Nathaniel Hawthorne; selected this year, as in other years, several gifts the Music Library, was granted her volumes from Longfellow's works, worthy of mention and are pleased to graduate degree as the result of a study Macaulay's speeches and Scott's Waverley report on a select few of these gifts. It gives and analysis of the elements of style in novels. More than a dozen of L. us pleasure to include University faculty five of Mr. Van Vactor's symphonies. In Mulhbach's many titles are represented in and staff among those who have selected the process of this study she received from this collection which includes two multi­ this library as repository for their private the composer the scores she has now given volume sets, one of American authors, the collections. into the care and protection of the other titled The World's Greatest Books. University library. Dr. H. Woodrow Fuller Additional Van Vactor scores have Eugene Swartz Dr. Fuller has been a friend and come from Dr. Allen E. Johnson, associate Mr. Swartz, a resident of this area benefactor of the library during the years professor, Music Department. These were since retiring from his profeSSional pursuits he has been associated with the part of a larger gift from Dr. Johnson in Washington, D.C., has given to the Department of Germanic and Slavic which included materials in various library a collection which consists primarily Languages, where he is now a senior formats-phono-records, recordings, of German language materials. The Goethe member and holds the rank of professor. monographs-all of value to the growth Samtliche Werke is probably the most In other years he has given materials from and diversity of the Music Library. outstanding title in the gift. Along with the his private collection . This year the volumes other materials, it will provide excellent making up this gift, presented several Dr. and Mrs. Frank F. Bell reading editions for undergraduate students months prior to his retirement, are the For many years Dr. Bell has been a who are majoring in GermaniC languages. ones which have been most important to faculty member in the College of The Swartz gift encourages the library in his scholarly endeavors. Agriculture's Plant and Soil Science the feeling that unknown friends are Because of the unusual value of the Department. Through an interest in this responding to our needs and giving freely titles by Gottfried Keller and Theodor discipline and in building his own library he of their materials. Storm and the completeness of Schrifter has amassed a large and varied collection der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft, he of materials: periodicals such as Agronomy Joe C. Rader comments briefly in his letter of transmittal: Journal, Soil Science SOciety of America In giving his private collection to "The copy of Keller's Die Leute Von Journal, Journal of Soil and Water the library, Mr. Rader, head of the Reserve Seldwyla is quite rare, owing to the Conservation , to name only a few. Department, John C . Hodges circumstances of its publication . . . the Monographs in the collection range (Undergraduate) Library, comments that copy of Storm's Der Schimmelreiter, which through these same subject areas, the the volumes are crowding his home. He was the North German's last and greatest scientific and technical aspects of soil and realizes the library's needs and is offering work, is an especially fine one ... and the its care, which include the proceedings and his "collection of materials with extensive Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft is transactions of national and international representation in British and American central to any investigation of the life or congresses; theses, and dissertations. literature," adding, "I work in a library works of the nineteenth century poetic Perusing the collection one detects every day, why should I need a personal realist." Other Storm titles in this gift are an interest in conservation on the part of library at home?" Carsten Curator, 1878; Renate, 1878, and the collector and an appreciation for the As noted above, the collection John Riew', 1886. aspects of nature which satisfy the need for reflects an interest in American authors. We are grateful for these materials the esthetic as well as the nutritive: The Several of the names will be recognized as which enhance our holdings in Germanic Care of the Earth , Maintenance of Shade former University associates and friends. • literature and wish for Dr. Fuller a full and and Ornamental Trees, A Place to Live, happy life in his coming retirement. Silent Spring, The Politics of Conservation . Dr. Bell has been a generous David Van Vactor Scores contributor to the library in previous years. One of the more unusual gifts this As he divests himself of this collection on year has come from an interested staff the eve of his retirement, we thank him for member, Rebecca C . Smeltzer, former being a friend to the library and wish him senior library assistant in the Music Library. well in his many endeavors in future years. The collection consists of musical scores, reproduced from eleven of David Van Mitchell P. Borden, Jr. Vactor's manuscript copies. Mr. Van The gift from Mitchell P. Borden, Vactor, who has many compositions to his Jr., textbook manager, University of credit, and was for many years Knoxville Tennessee Book and Supply Store, Symphony conductor as well as serving as represents nineteenth century authors, all

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Olive Harllee Branch, collection .. . but we definitely feel that Miss Branch development librarian and professor, has will fit properly into the classification of full retired. For thirty-three years - March 1, professor." The vice president agreed, as 1948 until June 30, 1981-she has did the full professors with whom she commanded campus-wide respect and worked. admiration for her knowledge, impeccable Dick Boss called her "ideal as taste, and the scrupulous stewardship she collection development librarian," which has exercised over The University of she became in 1974 when Mr. Boss Tennessee, Knoxville book collection. effected his reorganization of the library's She counts as colleagues, friends, technical processes. With this step she was and admirers those within the library freed from the mechanics of purchase profession, the teaching and research orders, invoices, disbursements, and staff faculties, the University administration, and direction , and could direct her knowledge innumerable library donors and patrons of the holdings and needs of the various who have encountered her gracious and disciplines to the further enrichment of The compelling manner with gifts and bequests University of Tennessee Library . to the library. She will be greatly missed: Chancellor's Honors were bestowed her clear, incisive thinking and her upon her on May 10, 1978, "for eloquent speech have many times cut extraordinary service to the University." through fogs of redundancy and Her citation said "... her skill , common irrelevance that were threatening to swamp contribution to [the University's) growth sense and exquisite taste have helped any number of discussions. She is active in and excellence." contribute to the library's continuing many University affairs of a non-library Miss Branch is not unacquainted position as a cultural resource for the entire nature; she supports and engages in the with such statements. Before she ever campus community." cultural activities of the community; and came to UT, her former employer, Ben She has edited the Library she readily accepts her civic duties and Powell of Duke University, said "she was Development Program Report since 1967, responsibilities. slated to become head of descriptive and everyone who has worked with her on Harry Rutledge, head of the cataloging. We would certainly employ her these stylish publications, everyone who Department of Classics, attributes the if she applied here [again) ." She had left has leafed through one of them, stands in strength of the collections in the humanities Duke in 1942 to become an army librarian awe of her command of the language and to her inspiration of department heads and at Fort Moultrie . From 1945 until January her graceful, felicitous use of it. faculty with "clear vision of the nature and 1947, she served with the Army of Olive Branch is a woman of variety. meaning of a truly excellent university Occupation in the European Theatre of All the traits for exemplary living she has in library ." High praise, indeed, but, between Operations. abundance. But there are more - an her announced retirement and the actual The library directors, during her inquisitive mind, a curiosity and a caring event, high praise became almost years here - Bill Jesse, Dick Boss and about the aspects of her environment and commonplace. A resolution by the Faculty Donald Hunt - all commended her. Mr. the people who move there, an open, Senate Library Committee, readily Hunt said , "I rely heavily on her democratic, extremely humanistic approach endorsed by the Senate, spoke of "her knowledge of the collection , . ..her rapport to people, and a clear vision of the first­ tact, patience, untiring persistence, and with the faculty , and an intellectual class with the courage and integrity never judicious resistance," her "gentle manner, awareness of the role and scope of a to settle for less. She will be missed. subtle sense of humor, . . . her unfailing research institution ." Mr. Jesse, perception of the possible," "deep recommending her promotion to Vice­ appreciation for the long and valuable President Herman Spivey, said, "... we service" and gratitude for "her are conservative about promotions in rank ~~ d7~. ~ ~£-,j 19 Reception Honoring Friends and with a framed copy of the Faculty Senate Benefactors resolution which had been composed to The annual Library Friends and honor her. Library faculty, acting as hosts, Benefactors reception was held on Friday, greeted the guests and assisted in May 29, from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. at the extending to them a cordial welcome. McClung Museum. The museum was About 275 people gathered to greet selected as the site of this year's reception Miss Branch, to view the museum exhibits, so that library patrons could enjoy exhibits to enjoy the refreshments, and to visit with mounted there. The featured exhibit was friends and colleagues. Keepsake one on local architecture entitled, "Building programs, • which have for five years been in Knoxville: The Styles and Materials." a feature of the reception, were handed to Another exhibit prepared for the occasion development librarian, skillfully guided the guests as they arrived. The program design was designed to display representative building of library resources. For the past this year was a view of Knoxville's Market recent gifts to the library. Many of the gifts fourteen years she directed the Library Square, circa 1892. on display at the reception are described in Development Program as well. Members of the Library committee this Library Development Program Report. Guests were welcomed by Mrs. and officials of the Development Office The reception, hosted by the Evelyn Overholt, chairwoman of the who planned the reception felt that this Chancellor's Associates and the University Chancellor's Associates and by Chancellor year's occasion was the largest and most Library, is held each year as a means of Jack Reese, who spoke briefly to the group successful friends and benefactors event yet recognizing donors and of encouraging about the importance of library programs held. additional support. Another purpose this and discussed plans for a new library. He •A limited number of keepsake year was to honor Miss Olive Branch, who expressed gratitude to friends and programs (see back cover design) from retired at the end of June after thirty-three benefactors for their gifts. Professor Dale other years are available to friends and years of distinguished service to the library. Cleaver in a short talk paid tribute to Miss benefactors upon request. Requests should Miss Branch, during her career as Branch and recognized her many be directed to the Special Collections acquisitions librarian and collection achievements. Miss Branch was presented Library.

Linda DaVidson, left, of the UTK Development Office and John Olive Branch chats with Bill Ward, left, of the Dobson, right, Special Collections librarian, greet Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Undergraduate Library and art professor Dale Cleaver. R. Allen, longtime patrons of the library.

20 Olive Branch, right, welcomes Dr. and Wallace Baumann, left, and Howard John Dobson and Shannon Mulkey of the Mrs . Norman Sanders. Lumsden visit with a lifelong friend Mrs . Special Collections Library exchange Henry Smith (the former Helen Hier) of greetings with Richard Doughty, right, of Atlanta. Greeneville.

From left, Mrs . W .J. Ellis, Mrs . Cecil Anderson, and Mrs . Eva Jenkins Cuningham and George Mooney pass a pleasant moment Harry Watson discuss the keepsake programs distributed with Dr. and Mrs . Thomas Pryse, right. at the reception. -

From left, Chancellor Jack Reese, Mrs . Evelyn Overholt At the refreshment table, from left, Mrs . Percy Adams, Francis (chairwoman of the Chancellor's Associates), Professor Headman, Mrs. Headman, Miss Eleanor Goehring, Paul Bartolini, and Dale Cleaver, and Pauline Bayne pose with Olive Branch, Felicia Felder-Hoehne. center, who had just been presented with a laudatory resolution issued by the Faculty Senate.

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make purchases and conferred regularly with the acquisitions division about such matters. As a result, the Hoskins Library has one of the finest collections of Colonial material in the country. He was chairman of the Committee on Special Documents, 1949-1971 , a member of the Faculty Library Committee, 1958-1970, and a member of the University-wide search committee for the director of libraries, 1970-71. In addition he made constant use of the interlibrary loan system for his own studies and also advised his students to do so. His own book collection was remarkable both for its breadth and for its concentration on Southern material. As a teacher Dr. Davis was universally known for his scholarship and his encouragement of students. He was gracious about writing letters of recommendation , and many of his former students owe their present positions to his efforts on their behalf. He had a wide correspondence with both his former students and his colleagues throughout the United States. He also was generally the center of much of their attention at national Dr. Richard Beale Davis: A Tribute Intellectual Life in the Colonial South and regional academic meetings, which he With the death of Richard Beale (1978) , which won the National Book regularly attended. Davis on March 30, 1981, the academic Award. For this work he also received the Dr. Davis' studies took him abroad world lost one of its most distinguished title Outstanding Author of the Year from several times. He was a Fulbright professor scholars, and the library of The UniverSity the Southeastern Library Association and in Norway in 1953 and a U.S. State of Tennessee one of its greatest friends . the Charles S . Sydnor Award of the Department lecturer in India in 1957. On After coming to Knoxville in 1947 he Southern Historical Association. more than one occasion he attended the devoted himself to scholarship in the Though he retired from teaching in meetings in Europe of the International Colonial period of America and at the 1977, he continued to do research and to Association of University Professors of same time to building up the library's write . Last year he had a Senior Fellowship English . He was in communication with collection of books and periodicals in that from the National Endowment for the many scholars abroad as well as at home. and related fields. He was the author of Humanities to work on a book about He will be remembered not only as a twenty books and scores of periodical intellectual life in the Revolutionary South scholar but as a bibliographer of the very articles and reviews. His book Intellectual at the NEH Research Triangle in North first rate. Life in Jefferson's Virginia (1964) won the Carolina. He was engaged in research for first annual award of the American this book at the time of his death . Association for State and Local History. Dr. Davis was assiduous in marking His culminating work was the three-volume book catalogs from which the library could - ~t"tt-~ liV.'Vtilvy­ 22 MeednstheChaIIense The University of Tennessee , may help meet the challenge of to the University. When the property is Knoxville has been "challenged" by the strengthening the library's humanities sold the proceeds will go to benefit the National Endowment for the Humanities collections. During the remaining two years humanities collection of the library; (NEH) to raise $3 million by June of 1983. of the challenge, donors may designate however, it is now serving a double Under the terms of the grant, the NEH will their gifts for the NEH Challenge Grant­ purpose by qualifying for the NEH provide $1 million to the College of Liberal Library and be assured that the NEH will Challenge Grant program and releasing Arts at UTK if the University can secure contribute $1 to the University of matching funds that can be of immediate $3 million in private gifts to support the Tennessee, Knoxville for every $3 received benefit to the campus. humanities program. The purpose of this from private sources. The University of Tennessee is challenge grant is to improve the long-term In addition to the library , academic pleased that the NEH Challenge Grant financial viability of the humanities program areas within liberal arts defined by the NEH offers a special opportunity to friends of the in the College of Liberal Arts by stimulating as humanities are programs offered in the library who may wish to help strengthen new and increased support from the Department of Classics, English , Germanic the collections in the area of the private sector. We are past the halfway and Slavic Languages, History, humanities. point in this effort and are making a Philosophy, Religious Studies and the Those wishing additional information concerted effort to reach our $3 million criticism of art, music, theatre. Also concerning the NEH Challenge Grant may goal. included are the Cultural Studies Program contact: The humanities collection of the and certain aspects of the social sciences. 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Over the years, private gifts have program records at the University. In actually receive use of the funds until some played an important role in UTK's library addition, of course, such gifts will qualify later date. Included in this category are program. Our regular sources of income you for membership in the Century, bequests by will, charitable simply cannot provide sufficient funds for University 500, or Presidents Club if they remainder unitrusts and charitable us to acquire the many materials and meet the minimum requirements. remainder annuity- trusts. It is important to books which are needed to maintain the note that while deferred gifts do not accrue level of quality we desire. A Fund for Tennesseana and Other Rare to the University until some date in the Because private financial support is Books and Manuscripts future, there are usually immediate income needed, we are often asked to explain the Contributors to the Library tax benefits which can be enjoyed by the various methods of making gifts to the Development Fund sometimes suggest donor. Gifts made in this manner may be University and to identify the most special titles of materials in a particular field designated for the library program and appropriate and effective among the as the objective of their gifts. Such requests usually require competent legal assistance several alternatives that are available. usually refer to the rare and unusual, a to assure that they are correctly The most popular and effective ways realm of importance to the research established. to support the library program are: collection and scholar, but one which must As indicated, all of these gift give way to the needs of the instructional methods offer income tax deduction Gifts of Books or Other program and may be curtailed entirely in advantages that should be carefully Valuable Library Materials times of budgetary stress. Earmarked gifts considered. The UTK Development Office Of course, we are particularly often mean that we obtain some expensive has the responsibility of working directly interested in receiving gifts that will help us and desirable things we otherwise could with all interested donors to ensure that enhance our collections already begun or not aspire to, for action must be immediate their gifts are intelligently planned in the help us fill out certain subject areas as and funds at hand when rarities appear, light of current tax regulations. Should you required by the academic programs of the many of them only once in a lifetime. To have any questions about the tax University. At an institution of our size and ensure the Special Collections librarian deductibility of a proposed gift or should complexity, we often need duplicate copies some participation in the transactions of you want to discuss any aspect of making a of titles. You are encouraged to get in this unique marketplace, especially in the gift to the University, including Century touch with us if you are in doubt about the area of Tennessee materials, it would be Club, University 500, or Presidents Club deSirability of books you may want to helpful to have a fund specified for this membership, please get in touch with the contribute. use. University Development Office. Friends of the library who are Individuals contemplating gifts of Gifts of Cash and Appreciated Securities interested in the uncommon and distinctive cash, securities, or a deferred gift of any One of the most effective ways of may mark their gifts for Special Collections. type are encouraged to consult with their assisting us is an outright gift of cash or Doing so might allow a particularly rare bit attorney, accountant, or tax advisor. securities. This enables us to apply the gift of T ennesseana to be brought back to the Those interested in making gifts to to the most pressing need. Ordinarily, of state. the library may contact: course, such funds would be used primarily Development Office for acquisition of new books. A gift of Deferred Gifts The University of Tennessee, Knoxville appreciated securities offers attractive A deferred gift is one in which the 401 Student Services Building income tax benefits. Personal gifts of this donor retains some kind of interest or Knoxville, Tennessee 37916 type will be credited to your annual giving involvement. The University does not Phone: (615) 974-5045 libraryContributors1980-81

Patrons have made contributions valued at one thousand dollars or more during the year. Donors have made contributions of one hundred to one thousand dollars. Capitalized names denote gifts of five hundred dollars or more . We regret that space limitations prevent the recognition of all donors.

PATRONS Mrs . Broadus F. Farrar, '21 Mr. and Mrs . Cameron E. Perry Broadus F. Farrar John H . Fisher Jane C. Pope. Lucy E. Fay Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Allen, '56, '47 Mary Elizabeth Barger Ford, '47 Patricia Anne Purvis, '70 Stanley J. Folmsbee Mr. aand Mrs. Max M. Alvarez Claude E. Fox Claude O . Ramer, III, '66 Stuart Fonde Mr. and Mrs . Frank F. Bell, '37 MR . AND MRS . JOHNNY LEE FRY, III EARL M. RAMER John Francis Mr . and Mrs . Clarence Brown Mrs. Gideon W. Fryer William Charles Robb, '66 Florine Fuller Mr. and Mrs . Calvin A. Buehler H . Stuart Garrett Mr. and Mrs . Craig G. Ross, '68, '68 L.A. Galyon Francelia Butler Mr. and Mrs . Julian R. Gissel, Jr. , '71 David Lee Rubin , '62 James Ray Geren Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Culver Eleanor E. Goehring Mrs . Roberts Rugh Orin B. Graff Estate of Elizabeth Dunlap LeRoy P. Graf Karl A. Schledwitz, '74 Mrs . Elizabeth Hammond Dr . H .W. Fuller Lee S . Greene Robert E. Schmitt Leo J . Hardin Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lee Garner, '49, '47 Mrs . Frances B. Griffith Mr. and Mrs . William C. Seaton , '57 Mary Harrison Mrs . Ruth Whitehead Graham Charles H. Hadden Lucille Thomas Sessions L.R . Hesler Mrs. Sue K. Hicks MARGARET E. KEYES HARRISON Mr . and Mrs. Martin L. Shoffner John C. Hodges Home Federal Savings and Loan Association Mr. and Mrs . Robert E. Harrison Murphy D. Smith, '48, '49 Kenneth V. Hodge Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Howard John T. Hemmeter Larry Alan Stanifer, '74 David V. Howard Mr. and Mrs . Richard Koella, '47 , '47 E. Lucille Higgs , '43 Mr. and Mrs . John Douglas Stein, '56, '60 William Lauren Hunter Dr. and Mrs. Howard Misner Nitta Hiroshi (Sinchosha Co.) Dr. and Mrs . Carl M. Stiefel, '54, '54 Ray H. Jenkins Donald M. Nathan MRS . JOHN C. HODGES Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Walter Stiefel, '58 William B. Jesse Pilot Oil Corporation Helen Hollingsworth, '71 Marilyn E. Stiff W.B. Jones, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jack E. Reese Dr. Benita J . Howell Dr. Fred O . Stone, Jr. Anna B. LaForge Dr. William Swann , '75 Arthur Richard Hubbs, '50 Eugene Swartz Edwin R. Lutz Valley Fidelity Bank and Trust Company Calvin R. Huber Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Talley Miss Carter Cotham McCrory White Stores, Inc . Donald R. Hunt Burt Lee Thompson, '62 F. Dwight McDonald John Arthur Hyman , '46 Mr. and Mrs . Joseph Trahern , Jr. Frank and Nannie Ketner McDonald DONORS George Loyd Jensen Richard Parkes Tucker, '61 Lisa McReynolds Mr. and Mrs. Clure H . Adams, '52 Mrs . William H. Jesse Shirley B. Underwood , '48 George Maloy Mr. and Mrs. Percy G . Adams Don W. Jett, '59 Dr. Howard H. Vogel, Jr. Billy D. Marable AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC . Stanley O . Johnson , Sr. , '61 Joan Edington Wallace Dr. and Mrs . Harcourt A. Morgan DR . AND MRS. RALPH ALLEN Mrs . Barbara G . Johnstone, '38 Anne Augusta Weigel , '12 Billy K. Nicely Chapman Anderson , Jr. '30 Mrs. A.H. Lancaster, '45 James Wilson White Miss Roxie Parker MRS . HOWARD BAKER Mr. and Mrs. Frederic S . LeClercq Miriam E. Williams Ben Plotnicki Particia Barkalow Nell Pauline Logan Mrs . Alice Caton Work John Francis Poythress Dr. William Bass Holbert H . Long Marguerite Yancy, '24 William A. Poythress Robert J . Bassett MR. AND MRS. JOHN E. LUTZ , II Mrs. Hazel McCullough Ramsey Mrs . Edythe F. Adcock Bell, '41 William A. Lyday, Jr., '63 HONORED PERSONS Kenneth L. Raulston Ernest C. Bernard Louise Manning McCleary, '17 Nora P. Branch Columbus Alexander Reeder MITCHELL P. BORDEN , JR . DAVID McCLURE Olive H . Branch Mrs. Jean Reese Mr . and Mrs . James R. Brandle Simon Marcovitch Dr . Ada Marie Campbell Ernest Sylvan as Roach , Sr. Olive H . Branch Mrs. Rossie L. Mason Miss Dorothy E. Lyon Mrs. J .P Roddy, Jr. Garrett Briggs Mildred Alene Wood Mays Mr. and Mrs . Charles M. Mason Art Ryan Christine Brown , '69 David Meriwether, '31 Celeste Sanford Mrs. James H. Burke Mr. and Mrs . Frederick D. Miller MEMORIALIZED PERSONS Sam Scarbrough CONDON S. BUSH Mrs . William M. Miller Roy Allbaugh C.D. Sherbakoff Mr . and Mrs. Ernest E. Byrn, '50, '54 Mr. and Mrs . Wayne H. Mitchell , '65, '62 Ralph B. Allen Mr. and Mrs . I.T. Sliger Dozier C . Cade MR . AND MRS . RICHARD MOORE F.E. Aucremanne, Sr. Melinda Smith CLARA M. GEREN CALDWELL Lucy Shields Morgan , '22 Mrs . Launinia V. Ballard James Guy Smithson James Henry Carroll, '47 WALTER L. MORRIS Mrs . Harryet Blackwell Herman E. Spivey Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Carson ORVIN J . MUNDT Joseph E. Blackwell Dr. Charles L. Stark Mr. and Mrs. Luther J . Caruthers, Jr., '71 Thomas H. Neal, Jr. '63 A.J . Chadwell lola and Franklin J . Stearns Estate of Ira Chiles Mr. and Mrs . John L. Neely, Jr. Ira N. Chiles James B. Stewart Dr. Dale G . Cleaver STEVEN M. NEUSE Pearl Upchurch Clark Dr. and Mrs . Walter Stiefel MRS . FRANK CREEKMORE Mary Ferris Newell, '29 Isabel Robinson Crews Russell Stone Pollyanna Creekmore Sara Conner Nichols Richard B. Davis Helen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beale Davis Robert L. Nobles, '74 Roy C. DeBusk Dr. Isabel H. Tipton Eva Jean Delaney, '46 Mr. and Mrs . Ralph V. Norman, Jr. Florence L. Dorn Maude Mooney Turpin John H. Dobson , '48 C.T. Nunley, Jr. Bonnie Gaye Maloney Doughty Harry M. Watson Nancy G . Doughty, '38 Mrs. Russell P. Ogle James Maloney Doughty Don Whitehead Richard H . Doughty, '45, '47 Dr. Paul W. Parma lee Willis Henry Doughty, Sr. William P. Wilson Willis H. Doughty, Jr., '29 Mr. and Mrs. G.R. Patterson, Jr. Mildred F. Eager Dr. R.H. Wolf "Market Square, East Side" was the cover design used for the keepsake programs distributed at the Friends and Benefactors reception, May 29, 1981 .

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