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Acquisitions manuscript in the custody of the Crèvecoeur fam ily. The additional essays were published in 1925 • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, has re- by the Yale University Press, whose editors, how ever, admitted that they had not attempted “to re ceived the Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill collec produce exactly the manuscript of Crèvecoeur.” tion of rare and fine ornithology books. Presently The full manuscript of the Letters, therefore, has on deposit at Cornell, the books will be housed in never been published. The Library has acquired the History of Science Collections together with the manuscripts imperfectly edited in the 1920s as other historical bird books. The Ornithology Proj well as those which formed the basis for the origi ect began four years ago with the offer of a nal Letters, and is displaying them during 1987. $150,000 challenge grant by the Hills to develop • T he New York Public Library, New York Cornell’s ornithology collections. Special emphasis has been placed on acquiring pre-1900 works on City, has received the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collec North American ornithology. The Hills have also tion “Shelley and His Circle,” the world’s preemi established a book endowment fund and are creat nent private collection relating to the 19th-century ing an ornithological research fellowship fund. English Romantic writers. The gift was made by • DePaul University, Chicago, has received a the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation of New York and provides a $3 million endowment fund collection of documents relating to the social, cul for continued maintenance of the collection. Con tural, and economic history of Hispanics in the taining approximately 8,000 manuscripts, the col Midwest over the past 12 years. A special archive lection includes the most extensive assemblage of has been created at the University’s Lincoln Park autograph letters by leading poet Percy Bysshe Campus for the materials, received from the Chi Shelley (1792-1822), as well as letters, journals, cago Latino Institute, a group serving as an advo poetry and prose by members of his circle. It also cate for Latinos and Latino communities through contains 13,000 printed volumes, from the late out the Chicago area. The addition of the Hispanic 18th century to the present, which document the archive will further facilitate researchers at De- lives and times of these writers and their impor Paul’s Center for Research on Hispanics. tance to later authors, critics and scholars. In addi • The Free Library of Philadelphia has acquired tion to Shelley, the circle includes the poet Lord an Edgar Allan Poe letter long thought to be lost. Byron; the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstone- Written by Poe in Philadelphia on July 14,1839, to craft and her husband, the philosopher and novel his cousin, George W. Poe of Houston, Texas, the ist William Godwin; their daughter Mary Woll- author briefly relates his own life and provides a stonecraft Shelley (author of Frankenstein); Leigh family tree of descent from his grandfather, John Hunt, poet, liberal journalist, and man of letters; Poe. The autobiographical section contains a few and Thomas Love Peacock, poet and comic novel embroideries on the truth, although Poe did take ist. care to point out to his correspondent a number of Highlights of the collection include the Esdaile familial relationships and intermarriages. Notebook, a copybook containing the bulk of Shel • The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., ley’s early poetry; a pocket notebook containing the has acquired the original manuscripts of an 18th- only text of A Philosophical View of Reform, Shel century American literary classic, Michel- ley’s longest prose work; over a third of the known Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an manuscripts of Shelley’s letters and more than 380 American Farmer (1782) and related essays. The letters and manuscripts by Mary W. Shelley; man acquisition was made possible by the Morris and uscripts of three complete works by Godwin and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, which gave funds corrected or association copies of most of his other to the Foundation for the Commemoration of the writings; Shelley’s annotated copies of several of his United States Constitution as a gift to the Library. own works; his annotated copies of the works of The grant was given in recognition of the impor Herodotus, Spinoza, and Godwin; many of the tance of Crèvecoeur’s work to the understanding of classical texts used by Shelley during his student the historical context from which the Constitution days at Oxford; as well as Shelley’s first extant emerged. In 1922, an American scholar in France poem, A Cat in Distress, written at the age of ten, discovered that only one-third of the Letters had and copied and illustrated by his sister Elizabeth. ever been published, and that the rest remained in The extensive materials relating to Lord Byron
February 1987 / 83 (1788-1824) include holograph manuscripts of his company in New York in 1980 but as yet unpub poetry Fare Thee Well, Beppo, Marino Faliero, lished. The 73-page manuscript, written on scraps the last complete canto of Don Juan, and many of and hotel stationery and marked “first draft,” is his letters. In addition, there is an extensive Byron very heavily corrected throughout. archive preserved by Countess Teresa Guiccioli that includes her letters to him, letters to Byron G r a n ts from other Italian mistresses, several versions of Guiccioli’s account of their life together, and her • Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia, annotated copies of books about Byron. The collec has been selected to receive a $285,000 grant from tion also contains many items of related interest, the Mabel Pew Myrin Trust of Philadelphia. such as portraits by George Romney of Shelley’s $150,000 has been earmarked for a remodelling parents, and a copy of Opie’s portrait of Wollstone- and expansion of the college’s combined computer craft commissioned by Aaron Burr. center and listening lab, housed in the Kelly Li Other unusual items include Shelley’s holograph brary. Additional listening equipment and com will, a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair, and a broadside puter furniture will be purchased. from an early production of Frankenstein. The col • The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., lection offers an in-depth look at the major prede has received a grant from the Morris and Gwendo cessors who influenced Shelley and his circle as well lyn Cafritz Foundation to support the first phase of as their contemporaries. Included are important production of a publication, Washingtoniana II: A manuscripts by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Guide to the Architecture, Design and Engineering Edmund Burke, Lamb, Washington Irving, Cow Collections of the Washington, D.C., Metropoli per, and Grabbe, and first editions of works by tan Area in the Prints and Photographs Division of these and others. Much material illuminating the the Library of Congress. Approximately 40,000 ar circle’s pervasive influence upon writers up to the chitectural drawings in the Division collections present day is featured, including manuscripts and will be studied, labeled, encapsulated, and re rare editions by the Robert and Elizabeth Barrett viewed for conservation needs as part of the proj Browning, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ect. A descriptive inventory will also be prepared. Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Algernon Charles • The Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Swinburne. The research archives of leading Byron scholar Leslie A. Marchand are also included. has been awarded a grant of $100,000 by the Wil Conceived and begun by the late Carl H. liam and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Pforzheimer (1879-1957), a New York City invest Park, California, for the purpose of improving bib ment banker and one of the major book collectors liographic control over its manuscript collection. A of the 20th century, the collection has been a lead uniform, complete description of more than 3,500 ing archive for Romantic research for 30 years. A selected manuscript holdings will be entered into significant portion of the manuscripts have already OCLC by Society catalogers over a two-year pe been cataloged and published in the first eight vol riod. The entries will serve as the basis for a printed umes of Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, initi guide to the collection when the Society celebrates ated by the collector in 1952 and published by the its bicentennial in 1991. Harvard University Press. The Pforzheimer Foun • The New York State Library, Albany, has re- dation will fund the publication of the four pro ceived a $256,668 grant from the National Endow jected remaining volumes. Also planned is a pub ment for the Humanities to begin identifying and lished catalog of printed books in the collection. cataloging unique newspaper titles. The 18-month • The University of Delaware, Newark, has grant to the New York State Newspaper Project added two manuscripts by playwright Tennessee will permit the Capital District and Rochester ar Williams (1911-1983) to its collection of books by eas to join what will eventually become a statewide and about him. One, entitled The Loss of a Tear project. Serving about two million people and in drop Diamond, is an unproduced screenplay based volving 226 institution systems, the areas’ library on the awkward social debut of Rose Williams, the councils will work with State Library staff to sur playwright’s sister. Begun in 1957, the manuscript vey newspaper holdings and complete biblio was completed and submitted to Williams’ agent, graphic and location information. A second phase Mitch Douglas, in 1980. The 113-page typed and of the project will include the microfilming of rare holograph working draft, which differs substan or damaged newspapers. tially from the published text, is completely re • The New York University Libraries, New York worked, with revisions, corrections and deletions City, with the cooperation of the State University on every page. These changes, spanning more than of New York at Buffalo Libraries and the Univer 20 years, provide insight into Williams’ working sity of Rochester Library, have been awarded patterns and artistic development. The second $138,855 by the New York State Education De work, Kirche, Kutchen und Kinder: An Outrage partment. The libraries are cooperating to micro for the Stage, is an eccentric work of social com film each institution’s student and institutional mentary, produced by an experimental theater publications, including newspapers, literary jour
84 / C&RL News nals, club magazines, and alumni publications. with a $300,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Such publications are of interest for research in bi Foundation, with matching funds of $660,000 to ography, institutional history, sociology, social his be raised by the University over the next eight tory, and literature. Printed on poor-quality pa months. Extended audiovisual services, more mod per, most have deteriorated rapidly. The project ern facilities for microforms, fine arts, government will produce preservation microfilm copies of the publications and special collections, and new refer publications and provide shared access through ence and electronic services will be major features RLIN. once the five year project is complete. ■ ■ • The University of Missouri, Columbia, has re- ceived an NEH grant of $95,698 to fund increased use of its microform collection. The History De Seventh Cenko Prize in partment, the Campus Writing Board, and direc tor of libraries Thomas W. Shaughnessy have de Ukrainian Bibliography veloped a project which will lead history faculty and their students to use important library collec The Harvard Ukrainian Institute is accepting tions through intensive writing courses. Begun last submissions for the seventh award of the Cenko fall, the first phase is the preparation of an anno Prize in Ukrainian Biblography. The $1,000 an tated, user-friendly resource guide to the libraries’ nual prize established by Mykola and Volodymyra microform collections and other holdings in his Cenko of Philadelphia will be given for the best tory. Students in five history courses will be ex bibliographical work on a topic of Ukrainian stud posed to primary source materials and sophisti ies. cated library research methods as they experience Four copies of entries (in English or Ukrainian) some of the challenges facing historians in inter must be submitted by March 1, 1987. Manuscripts preting and evaluating historical accounts. The must be in their final pre-publication form with the courses are intended to satisfy a new graduation re names and addresses of authors. Published works quirement in freshman composition recommended and late submissions will not be considered. by the Writing Board. Acceptable entries include: descriptive biblio • The University of Oklahoma Librarias, Nor- graphical essays or annotated bibliographies of a man, has received a ten-year, $2.3 million chal subject or author; index of a Ukrainian periodical; lenge grant from the Kerr Foundation of Okla or more general works that discuss the impact of homa City, to be used for staff and collection devel the printed book on Ukrainian culture. opment, graduate assistantships, and other needed The winner of the sixth Cenko Prize was Euge- library programs. The grant follows a 1982 three- niusz Misilo, a research associate of the Polish year challenge grant of $600,000 for the purpose of Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, for his work enti collecting materials in American history and cul tled, Bibliohrafiia ukrains’koi presy v Pol’shchi ture and in energy. The present funding will be (1918-1939) i Zakhidno–Ukrains’kii Narodnii Re- awarded in yearly increments of $115,000, to be spublitsi (1918-1919), a bibliography of the matched by funds raised by the University for a Ukrainian press in Poland and the West Ukrainian permanent endowment of more than $2 million. National Republic. • The University of Virginia Library’s Slavic The winner or winners will be announced at Bibliography Section has received a $10,000 grant Harvard University no later than June 1987. En from the United States Information Agency/Pri- tries should be sent by registered mail to: Cenko vate Sector Programs Division, for the purpose of Prize in Ukrainian Bibliography, Harvard Univer sending American Studies publications to the li sity, Ukrainian Research Institute, 1581-1583 brary’s academic exchange partners in Eastern Eu Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. ■ ■ rope. An offer of a list of expensive American refer ence books is planned, from which libraries in Muslim librarians Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia will be able to choose. The Islamic Library Association is compiling information for a directory of Muslim librari News Note ans and academicians. The directory will list professionals working in both Islamic and non- Islamic countries. To receive a questionnaire, • Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, write to Rasheeda Moinuddin, Secretary, Is has undertaken a $10 million project to expand and lamic Library Association, 6304 Cory Street, renovate the Wessell Library. Plans call for adding Simi Valley, CA 93063; or directly to the com 60,000 square feet of floor space and an expansion piler, Mohammed A.S. Khan, Lecturer Librar in services and stack area, which will be enlarged ian, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 9028, to accomodate 600,000 volumes. The project also Jeddah 21413, Saudi Arabia. The deadline for includes plans for a new library of science and tech inclusion is June 30, 1987. nology. The Wessell renovation is being funded
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