Spring 1996 Volume x, N um ber 2- Nota Bene ~ News from the Ya le Library

~ A joan Kahn Book Afrer growing up in New York Ciry where she atrend­ . Briefl y di splayed in Sterling Memori al Library this spring cd rhe Horace Mann Sc hool, Joan Kahn spem one year we re books and lerrers from rh e libra ry and papers of a t the Yal e Sc hool of Art, a year her sisrer says she Joan Kahn (1914-1994 ), whose editorial career spanned "adored." At th e end of that year she return ed reluctant­ forry-odd years, first at Harper Bro th ers, th en at Ticknor ly to New York , studied at Columbia, did a stint with & Fiel ds, Durron, and fin a ll y Sr. Marrin's Press . While the Office of War Informarion, and, in I945, applied she is perh aps bes t kn own for her , ...' ork with mystery for two jo bs: one at th e Museum of Modern Arr , one at and Sll spense fi cti on-the Mystery \X'riters of America H arper Brothers. Harper called her firsr, and she began presented her wirh rh e Ellery Queen Award and with as a reader, although within a year or so she beca me an a special Edgar Allan Poe Award-she edited books on editor charged with starting a mystery departm ent_ She many diffe rent subjects: hi story, travel, art, cookery, and es tablished the H arp er Novels of Suspense series, the th e th eater. Joan Kahn was also an author in her own Joan Kahn Novels of Suspense, and Joan Kahn Books. ri ght, publishin g two novels, el even anthologies, and sev­ Her editorial standards were old-school: she 'would not eral children's books. The items on exhibit from rh e col­ sign a book before it was fini shed, she turned down lections o f Sterlin g Memorial Library and Beinecke Rare books th at did not meet her expectations even if th ey Book and Manuscript Library were a representative and promised to be money-makers, and she never stopped tantalizin g se lection fr om the gift recently made to Yale reading unsolicited manuscripts. by her sisrer, Olivia Kahn. They provided a glimpse of a Joan Kahn is credited with making detective fi ction distinguished and dedi cared ediror at work. respectable, and even a partial list o f the authors she couJd call "hers" makes clear why thi s is so: Henry Cecil, John Creasey, C_ Day Lewis, Peter Dickin son, r Dick Francis, Nicholas Freeling, Michael Gilbert, Tony ~i.. I Hillerman, Julian Symons-and many more_That she inspired devotion is al so clear; one has onl y to rea d a few of the letrers included in this collection to be struck by her committed attention to her authors and by th eir constant gratitude for her support. They ask her for many things-money, advice, a carton of Bi c pens- and thank her profusel y when she provides . We at Yale are grareful as well: to Joan Kahn for giving th e world so many fine books, and to Olivia Kahn for makin g sure rhar this library has copies of rh em. -MKP

Some Things ~ Indian Affairs Records at Yale Dark La st summer, librarians at Sterl ing I\1emo ri al Library and Beinecke Rare Book and Manu script Library pur­ and chased over one thousand reels of mi crofilm document­ Dangerous ing the acti vities of the Burea u of Indian Affairs in th e 16 Suspense Sloriu • Some FOCI. Sam! Fklion nineteenth century. Originally organized under th e arm of the \Va r Department in r8 24 and transferred to th e Edited bV loon Kahn newly fo unded Department of th e Interior in 1849, th e Office of Indian Affairs, as ir was inirially ca ll ed, over­ One of the many mystery stori es edited by Joa n Kahn, saw the growing network of superintendencies, agencies, recently disp la yed in Sterling Memori al Librar y_ and subagencies crea ted to moniro[ Indian ac tivities as America ns pushed west. Yale's microfilm purchase contain s OIA correspondence from 1824 through 1881, giving readers access to the letters commissioners and cl erks sent o ur into th e field, as \ve ll as the letters, reports, and requests Indians and government employees sem to sta ff in Washington. Parr of 'ational Archives Record Group 75, the three micro film collections purchased, MI8, M2I, and J"12 34, comprise registers of letters received, the letters received themselves, and letters sent, respecti vely. It tak es a cer­ tain amount of perseverance to use this material. Letters sent are arranged chronologically so that researchers ca n read what OIA officia ls sent from Washington in a roughly sequential manner. However, letters receive d are often fil ed under somewhat arbitrary subject headings, making it extremely difficu lt for researchers to track down relevant materia ls. Window dccorarion The registers o f letters received somewhat untangle the from an early resea rch process. Clerks maintained running, chronologi­ edition of James ca l lists of letters coming into the Washington offices. Fenimore Cooper's They kept record books of these letters, making an entry Th e Prairie, in SM L 2. [8, fo rmerl ), rhe fo r each letter received, including place of origin, dare Cooper Collccrion. written, author'S name, as well as a brief synopsis of a letter's content. Scrawled in the left-hand margi n of each tribe was owed an annual payment of salt. The Commis­ entry is th e cl erk's designated subj ect hea ding, indicatin g sioner of Indian Affairs sent two letters in response to th e letter's destination in files. At times, subj ect headings thi s request: one to the fi eld agent in charge of carryin g correlate to a letter's place of origin (Creek Agency, for out the trea t), agreements, the other to th e Indian in stance, or Michigan Superintendency) . At other times, making the original request. The Commissioner wrote the hea dings have to do wirh broad topics clerks found hi s letter to the agent in bland, declarative bureaucratcse, to be o f interest (Schools, lndian Emigration, or Enroll­ while hi s letter to the Indi an was punctuated with fl ow­ ment). Occasionally subject headings seem to have out­ ery metaphors and moralistic prescriptions for ri ghteous live d rheir usefu lness, so clerks later refiled letters with­ work and life. By coming to terms with the stark differ­ out, however, indicating where they had put them. A ences in language in letters such as these, resea rchers ,'vill letter initia ll y fil ed wirh rhe subject heading " Pi ankashaw be better able to understand the dynamics influencing Nation," for instance, now rests in the fil es of the St. interacti ons between Indians and governmental officials Lou is Superintendency. in the nineteenth century. -CAe Scholars committed to including na tive peopl es in Catheri1le Corman is a graduate student in the Ameri­ their depictions of American life will find a wealth of can Studies Department. little-used materials in th ese collections. Those interested in researching American state form ation, domestic policy, or inrernal affairs will be delighred by rh e co ll ec­ tions' Indi an-centered view of events. Those docum ent­ ~ } 5TOR: Access to Journals Online in g change over rime may find information about trade The Yale Library is pleased to announce access for mem­ and trade goods, annuity payments, Indi an requests, and bers of rhe Ya le University community ro JSTOR: The agency repo rts en lightening. Those concerned with Mell on Foundarion Journal Srorage Projecr. JSTOR aims American Indians v.lill be pleased to find so much o rigi­ ro develop a digital library in support of rhe arts and sci­ nal material generated by Indians themselves. ences. At present it provides electronic access to nea rl y­ These collecrions shed lighr on rhe everyday power complete fil es of fifteen full -text journals in rhe areas of relations th at regul ated interactions between Indians and economics and history. Approximately 750,000 journal U.S. officials. For example, in one exchange, an Indian page im ages are backed by fu ll y-searchable ASC II text. dicta red a Ic rrer to an interpreter, asking th e government Esrablished in August I99 5, JSTOR is an in dependent to make good on a trea ry stipulation under \:vhich hi s not·for-profit organization crea ted with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mell on Foundation. To help the scholar­ ~ Victor Serge Archive at Yale ly community take adva ntage of advances in inform ation The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is technology, JST OR takes inro account the sometimes pleased to announce its acquisition of the papers of the confli ctin g needs of scho lars, libraries and publishers. Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge Focussing initially on core scho larly jo urnals, JSTOR has (1890-1947). The archive was purchased ill Mexico last among irs primary objectives improving access to journal spring from Serge's son, the painrer Vl ad~' Kibalchich. literature for scho lars by linking bitmapped images of \'V'h en Victor Serge was repatriated to Soviet Ru ssia journal pages to a powerful search engine. In addition, in 1919, his credentials as a revolutionary were already the proj ect hopes [Q mitigate some of the economic prob­ extensive. Born into a fa mily of Russian revolutionary lems of libraries by easin g storage problems (thereby intellectuals exiled to Belgium, Serge was associated as saving prospective capita l costs involved in building an adolescent with the socia li st Jeune Ga rd e in Brussels. more shelf space), and also by reducing operating costs He worked as an apprentice photographer, a typesetter, associated Volith retrieving and reshelving back issues. and an editor, and in 1912 was incarcerated w hen he n1loreovcr it ,.vi II address issues o f conservation and refused to act as an info rm er in the Paris trial of the preservation slich as broken runs, mutilated pages, and anarchist bank robbers known as the "Bonnot gang." long-term deterioration of paper copy. Exiled from France upon hi s release, Serge participated in the Barcelona uprising of 1917, then spent a year in a French concentration camp as a "Bolshevik suspect. " The titles currently available on J5TOR include Upon arriving in Russ ia in January 1919, Serge was full ru ns up to '990 of the fo ll owing titles: put to work o rganizing the Communist Intern ational, Ecological Applicatiofls editing foreign-language publicati ons, and settin g up the Ecological M01tOgratJhs Comintern publi shing house and print shop. From 1922 Ecology to 1926 he served as editor o f Impreko rr, the Comintern Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society press service in Berlin and later Vienna. An ea rly sup­ porter of the left opposition, Serge was fina ll y expell ed Speculum: A JOllmal of Medieval Studies The American Economic Re'view from the party in 1928; in 1933 he was deported to Cen­ The A1'1'terican Historical Review tral Asia, bur released three years later after no isy The Journal of Americal1 History protests at the Congress for rhe Defense of Culture in The Journa l Df Eco1lomic Perspectives Paris, where hi s novels and essays were well known by The lOl/fllal of Modern History writers li ke Malraux, Gide, and Romain Roll and, who The j OIlNla l of Political £c01lOmy interceded personally with Sta lin in 1935 . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Serge spent th e next years vigoroll sly campaigning The Quarterly jOHma / of Ecollomics against the Stalinist purges in Ru ssia and in Republican The Revieru ol Economics and Statistics Spain. He continued at the same time to write, and hi s The William a1ld Mary Quarterly 1939 novel about the Russian opposition !I est mint.tit dans Ie si"c/e (Midnight in the Century) was nominated for the Prix Goncourt. After rhe fall o f Paris, Serge spent a year in Marseilles awaiting an improbable visa Access ro J 5TO R is possible from any legitimate Yale to his final exil e in Mexico, where he arrived soon after IP (Interner Prorocol) domain with a World W id e We b the murder of Trotsky and where he himself survived browser such as Nctscape, Mosaic, or Lynx. The URL is: an attempted assassin ation. T hrougho ut this life of http://www·istar.arg/. activism, hardship, and poverty, Se rge wrote Currently Yale, along with several other academic continuously. campuses and libraries, is a rest site for the JSTOR pro­ The archive acquired by the Beinecke includes Serge's ject. When the test period ends in the fall of 1996, libra r­ research files and drafts of articles, largely from the Mar­ ians w ill assess th e use and continuation of th e resource. seilles and Mexican peri ods (I940-47). Among his Feedback about this exciting resource, th e first offering many books represented in th e collectio n by manuscripts of significant runs of important journals in th e humani­ and typescripts are II est minllit dans Ie sieele; Les ties and social sciences in elec tronic form, is thus derniers temps (The Long Dusk), a novel about the fall welcome. Please send questio ns and comments to: of Fra nce; Les hommes dans fa prison (1928); Vie et Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian (a nn . mort de Leon Trotsky with manuscript notes by Natalia okersoll @ya le.edu). -1\50 Trotsky; and t\\'o of his finest works, written in Mexico, !vlb-noires d'un revo lu tiol1naire and L'affaire Toulaev (The Case of Comrade Tu layev), a panoramic novel ~) C' ; 'i.A~ t' of Ru ssia during th e purges. The archi ve also contain s .\- '" f' f\..... Ilil ' ! " '-----' .L _, j , U.I.~o..OJl'::c.ll • un published drafts, photographs, clippings, and corre­ ...... -.-~~:.... ~. ~ h ~..: .. _ ..•L.. _1-.).'-01-1""" _ .., _ ...... "_. . ..c.. .. w ...... ~ .. .<..~ ...... \ ...... <- _(\.l_ ~ _ . _ . _ J '-h I spondence with such fi gures as Leon Trotsky, Andre ~. _ _ ,"-...... _ _ ...... _.1.1_ ...... _ .....-40'-'- _ '-"" , .... J,...• .-- ~ - ~ .-<-- _ ,. __ .~ _ _ ...... 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C HAU CER FA CS IM I L E . The Beinecke Rare Book and This bull of Pope Sixtus IV to rh e Signoria of Florence, dated in Manuscript Librar), and Sterling Memori al Librar), have Ro me, July I6, I473, is one of thc images digiti zed from microfilm recentl), join ed to purchase a splendid facsimile of the in the Il ardi Collection of Renaissance Dip lomatic Documents. Elles mere manuscri pt of Chaucer's Canterbury Ta les published by Yushodo Company, Tokyo, and Hunting­ lished in I9II by Manchester Uni versity Press. All those ton Library Press, Sa n Marino, Californi a. The facsimi­ scholars and students whose Iiteraty pilgrimages include le's or igin al, the manuscri pt known as the Ellesmere study of Chaucer's Tales have ca use to thank the Libtaty Chaucer, is held b)' the Huntington Library. It offe rs Associates and Robett J. Menner 'I3 whose book fund s one of the most re li a bl e and complete texts of the made this magnificent addition possible. -MKP Can terbury Tales, as well as pom aits of the tellers of the tales, including what may be the earli est im age of Chaucer himsel f. The result of internati onal collabora­ I LA RDI M I C R O F I LM GU I DE ON T H E WWW. tion among scholars, conserva tors, lib ra rians, and pub­ The Guide to the Ilardi Microfilm Collection of Renais­ li shers, this full-size, full -color reproducti on is housed in sa nce Diplomatic Documents ca .I4so-ca.I 50o is now the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Librar)', where avail able electronically to interested sc holars over the it joins a well-used cop)' of the coll otype facsimile pub- World Wide Web. The coll ection of nearly two thousand ree ls of film and se veral groups of photocopies was given to the Yale Library in '990 by Vincent Ilardi, currently a Vi siting Professor in the History Department. Described ea rli er in this newsletter (IV:3, Fall I990), this coll ection assembl es over one and one-half mil1ion documents film ed in the repositories of Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples, Barcelona, Pari s, and other Italian and European cities . It reproduces most of the massive diplomatic records of the Sforza dukes of Milan who led the diplo­ matic revolution of the late fifteenth cemury. Their arc hi ves, though the most important source for the emer­ gence of modern di plomacy, have been in adequ ately uti­ lized by sc holars fo r lack of a printed inventory. The full text of the gui de ca n be searched usin g the search engines built into most Web browsers; thus resea rchers can readil y locate the documents (a nd the reels containing them) concern ing indi viduals such as Bianca Maria Sforza or places like Naples. A small number of digiti zed images of documents selected fro m the coll ecti on accompanies the guide and illustrates the ric h va riety of in fo rm ation contained in Renaissance diplomati c series. The guide'S avail abili ty on the Internet should encour­ age scholars to use this ric h collection both locally and

A portra it of Geoffrcy Chaucer from The Ellesmere Chall cer through interlibrary loan. The URL is: reproduced ill facsimile (lvlanchcster Universiry Press, [9 ' I ). http://www.!ibmr)..).ale.edll/llardi/il-home.htm. - S F R M E DI C A L LIBRARY EXH I BITION . HcrbertKing Thoms was a Ya le medical graduate and professor who had many interests and talents. Works of Herbert K. Thoms, M.D. (1885-1972): Artist, Author, Medical Historian, Obstetrician, Teacher and Devoted Yale Alumllus, a n exhibit in his hono t, is on display through july in the Medical Libraty rotunda. Organized by Arthur Ebbert, jt., M.D., it includes paintings a nd dry points, photographs, and books; memora bil ia ra nge fr om Thoms' student scrapbook, ca. 1 910, to the citatio n for the award of the Yale M edal in 196I. A Yal e gynecologist, Tho ms made numerous impor­ tant contributions to his fi eld . These include studies in pelvimetry and infertility. In addition, in conjunction with Dr. Edith j ackson a nd the Department of Pedi­ atrics, he developed the plan for infant "rooming·in" after delivery. H e also established the natura l child birth l.dht·r ou.'.,,) program and the infertility clinic. A man of wisdom and b/L/,,~nl#/c£ de.' imagina ti on who loved life, he stressed to his students Bookpl ate of Russian Empress Catherine the Great (1729-1796), the importance of a humanistic approach to medicine. from the Bookplate Coll ecrion. - TAA

RU SS I AN LIBRARY T RI BUTE . The National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg paid tribute to the Yale University Libra ry during its 200th anniversary celebra· tion in May 1995. Vla dimir Z aitsev, its director, awarded a medal of appreciation to the Yale library for its contin­ Nota Belle is published during the academic year ro ac­ uous support-most nota bl y in sending publications by quaint the Ya le community and others interested with the Russian emigres to the National Library o f Russia, resources and services of the Ya le libraries. Please di[cct where the materials had previously been censored. O ne comments and questions to Susanne Roberts, Editor, Bib li ­ such gift was the priva te library of Russian-American ography Deparrment, Sterling Memorial Li brary (phone: 43 :!-I762, e-mail : [email protected]). aeronautical engineer Igor Sikorsky. The Russian library, origina ll y created by Empress Catherine the Great, also Copyright © (996 Yale University Library gives the Yale Libra ry books and other current publica­ I SSN 0894.1:351 tions for its collections. - TL Contributors to this issue include Tab)' A. Appet, Catherine A. Corman, Tarjana Lorkovic, Ann Shumelda Okerson, Margawf K. Powell , Susanne F. Roberts, Joanne W. Rudoff, PLOWDEN ARCH I VE AT YALE. The Beinecke Rare Chrjsra A. Sammons, and Richatd V. Szar),. Special thanks Book and M anuscript Library and noted photographer are due Shatane R. Hansen. and author David Plowden '55, of Winnetka, Illinois, a re Photograph on page r is by Harold Shapiro, those on pages pleased to announce their agreement to place Mr. Pl ow­ 2 and 6 are by Michael Marsland. den's archive in the Ya le Coll ection of Western Ameri­ cana. M r. Pl owden has written and illustrated fourteen Design is by John Gambell and Carol Schlosberg. books and provided photographs for thirteen others. His phowgraphs have appeared in dozens of peri odicals, and Scott Bennett, University Li brari an his widely-exhibited work is represented in the penna ­ Susanne F. Roberts, &litor nent co ll ecti ons of numerous museums. Since 1952, David Plowden has studied, documented, a nd commented upon the transformation of America. From the steam tug boats that once traversed the Hudson River to the iron and steel bridges that first spanned hundreds of American rivers, from the steel mills of metropolitan Chicago to the small towns and VIDEO AR C H I VE GRANT. The Forrun offVideo fa rms of rural America, Pl owden has photographed the Arc hi ve for Holocaust Testimonies has received a vanishing artifacts from which the contem porary Un ited $ 500 ,000 grant from the Righteous Persons Found ation States emerged. to support the cata loging of more th an 2500 videotaped Compiled over more than forry years, the Plowden witness accounts of the Holocaust by 1999. The For­ arc hi ve provides an un pa rall eled visua l record of pOSt­ runoff Vid eo Archive holds over 3,600 such videotapes World War II America. It includes more than ten thou­ and provides primary source materials for researchers, sa nd negatives and contact prints, severa l thousand exhi­ ed ucators, and media throughout th e worl d. The cata­ biti on and reproduction prints prepared by the loging in fo rmation will be avail able through RU N and photographer himself, his field notebooks, journals, cor­ through ORBIS, Yale's onlin e pu bli c access caralog, both respond ence, research notes, drafts of hi s various publi­ of \vhich are ava il able over the Internet. The Ri ghteous ca ti ons, and copies of virtuall y all of his published work. Persons Foundation was founded in th e fa ll of I994 by Pl owden's entire archive will not come to the library Steven Spielberg to distribute hi s portion of the profits until the photogra pher's retirement, but a collecti on o f from Schilldler's List. Addirional in fo rmarion about the prints is ava ilable fo r stud y in the Beinecke's reading archive is available at: http://www.library.yale.edu/ room. A major exhibit is planned for Fa ll I997. -CAS testimollieslhomepage.html - JWR

SML RENOVATI ON UPDAT E. OnJuneI, 1996, one of the first visible results of the current renovation of Ster­ ~ Woman to Woman ling Memori al Library will be completed with the The exhibition Woman to Woman, on view at th e reopening of the Memorabilia Room. Tha nks to the gen­ Beinecke Library until the end of Jun e, presents a gather­ erosity of Mr. and Mrs. Ja mes Hoak '66, this exhibit area ing of some two hundred original letters, each of them leading to the library lecture hall will provide a well ­ by hand and to a woman . "No letter ca n take th e pl ace lighted, environmentall y controlled, and secure space for of a good hu g," v,ifote Edith \Vharron to her niece in the display o f the many treasures in the library'S coll ec­ I935, but long after hugs have worked their good, let­ tions, particula rly those related to the history of Yale. ters remain, creatin g a historic record, preserving th e Highlighting Yale's al um ni , faculty, benefactors, a nd wisdom of our sisters before us. administrators, the open ing exhibit, Seen in a New The letters in the Bein ecke exhibi tion ra nge fr om Light: Selections from Manuscripts and Archives, will ancient papyru s fragments of the second and third cen­ focus on their contributions to th e growth of th e Univer­ turi es to th e correspondence of twentieth-centur y sity and [Q society in general. The exhibit wi ll run women. Some of Yal e's best-known coll ections ha ve through th e summer and be open for viewin g during provided materi al: letters that docum ent th e li ves of regular li brary hours. - RV S novelists Fanny Burney and George Eliot, letters written in the bold calligraphic hand of Georgia O'Keeffe, and a group of letters by pioneer women of the Am eri ca n West. Maria Edgeworth, El iza beth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, Marianne Moore, and environmentali st Rachel Ca rson are a few of the other women represented in the exhibition. Letters to Dorothy Peterson document her ro le as fr iend and supporter to many figures of the Harlem Renaissance_ R a rel y~exhibited love letters between Gertrude Stei n and Alice B. Tokla s arc o n di s­ play, as are lerrers from Violet Trefusis to Vita Sack vill e­ West. Correspondents of th e historica l novelist Bryher Silver ornament from include her life's companion, the Am erica n poet H.D.; the glass-fromed her publisher Helen Wolff; and fe ll ow-novelist Oororhy bookcases in the i\:lnnuscripts and Richardson. Another group of letters centers on the Archi yes Department, Benets, whose family papers constitute one of th e Sr-.·I L. Bein ecke's largest litera ry archives. Frances Rose Benet, ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY POLICY

The Advisory Committee 01' Library Policy, appoint­ ed by the President, consults with the Universit)' Librarian on policies relathtg to library services. Its members are:

John Mack Faragher, Chair Arthur Unobskey Professor of History 432.-0727; [email protected]

Scott Bennett, University Librarian 432,-I8I8; [email protected]

Alan Chodos, Senior Research Physicist 432-69I8; [email protected]

Roben B. Gordon, Professor of Geophysics and Applied Mechanics 432-3 I2 5; [email protected]

Ben Kiernan, Associate Professor of Hiscory 432-287°; [email protected]

Gerrwde Stein writing a letter. Some of her letters along with Wayne Meeks, Woolsey Professor of Biblical Studies those of other women arc on display in the Beincckc Rare Book 432-0747; [email protected] and Manuscript Li brary. Maria Rosa Menocal, R. Selden Rose PrOfessor of Spanish mother of the poet Stephen Vincent Benet, was a prodi­ 432-7608; [email protected] gious correspondent, and the exhibition includes letters [Q and from her daughters-in-law, one of whom was David Quine, _Professor of Comparative Literature American poet Elinor Wylie. and Professor of English In her introduction to an anthology of letters by 43 2 - 2 760 women, mystery author P. D. James wrote, "Here is the Alison Richard, Provost of the Un iversity intimacy of the heart and mind speaking to heart and 432-4444; [email protected] mind across distance and across time. " To bridge those gaps of time and space is one of the goals of \Vomall Dieter Soli, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and to Womal/. -CAS Biochemistry and Biology 432-6200; [email protected]

Lloyd Suttle, Provost's representative to the Committee Associate Provost 432-4452; [email protected] ~ Calendar of Exhibits

BE INECKE RARE BOOK AND MED ICAL LI BRARY MANUS CRIPT LI BRARY Works of Herbert K. Thoms, M.D. (r88S-I!}72): Wonta" to Womall Artist, Author, Medical Historian,Obstetriciall, thmugh June Teacher, and Devoted Yale Alunmtls th rough July The Faerie Queene in the World Salubrious Destinations: Spas, Sanitoria, and Other Banks' Florilegium Places of Medical Retreat mid-July through Seprcmber August through September

DIVIN ITY LI BRARY YALE CENTER FOR BR ITISH ART Vignettes of Men Memorialized in the Buildings of RA RE BOOKS the Yale Divinity School Francis Bartolozzi through September 1 through July 7

STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY Elegance and Etiquette Elm, and Magnolias: Old Blue in a Coat of Gray: July 9 through September 8 Yale and the America 1l South

Seen in a New Light: Selections from Manuscrip ts and Archives through summer

now available

Yale University Library Non-Profit O rga ni za ti on 1 3 0 Wa ll Street U.S. Postage Paid P.O. Box 208240 New Havcn, Conn ccti cut New Haven , Connecticut 06520-8 240 Permit N umber 470

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