SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS

1995

• AT THE SIGN OF THE GRYPHON
  A COLLECTION OF GRYPHIUS EDITIONS Lyon, 1527-56

  Sebastian Gryphius (1493-1556) of Lyon has been largely neglected by collectors of sixteenth-century books, who have long sought after works printed by his contemporaries Aldus Manutius and Robert Estienne.

  Gryphius, of German origin, was the most important printer of Lyon as well as the most prolific printer in France during the most fertile period of French Renaissance humanism. His career as an independent printer- publisher spans the period from 1528 to 1556, the year of his death. Gryphius was himself a scholar and an excellent Latinist, and was spoken of in the highest terms by his famous contemporaries Julius Caesar Scaliger, Salmon Macrin, Joannes Vulteius, and Conrad Gesner--the last of whom praised him (in his Pandecta) for the quality and the quantity of his editions, as well as for the elegance of his types and the accuracy of his texts.

  Gryphius surrounded himself with some of the most eminent scholars and literary figures of the day, and his Lyon establishment ("At the Sign of the Gryphon") became a frequent meeting place for Etienne Dolet, Andrea Alciati, Jacopo Sadoleto, Francois Rabelais, and others. These men were Gryphius's collaborators (the present collection includes examples by all of them), as well as correctors and copy editors to his press--a fact that accounts for the remarkable accuracy of Gryphius editions.

  Gryphius is best known today for numerous handy pocket editions of the Latin classics; these neat texts, printed in Gryphius's distinctively elegant italics, made the Gryphon the most serious competitor of the Venetian Dolphin and Anchor on the literary and pedagogical market in Europe. Gryphius, however, went one step further than Aldus in popularizing the classics, in that he printed even smaller, handier editions in 16mo, called by Baudrier "genuine typographical jewels." In fact, Gryphius would often print simultaneously two editions of the same text, one in 8vo, the other in 16mo.

  The 229 titles in this collection include books from every year of Gryphius's activity (including a very rare and uncharacteristic folio from 1527 printed in gothic, published the year before he established himself as an independent printer), as well as examples of all of the press's typographical material, including the various printer's devises and historiated initials. All the literary categories issued by Gryphius are represented, from rare Erasmian tracts to original Neo-Latin poetry, and of course editions of the classics.

• Giuseppe Segaro. Dell'idea dello scrivere. Genova, 1607 [i.e. 1624]

  One of the rarest and most inventive of all Baroque calligraphy manuals, this book by the writing master is known in a single edition, posthumously published by Segaro's son in 1624 from plates engraved 17 years before by a prior of the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence. They cover chancery cursive, rapid mercantile, abbreviations, superscripts, and formal chancery hand. Some of the text is in Spanish, possibly with a view to attracting the Neapolitan market. The book is exceptionally rare, with only two copies recorded by the National Union Catalogue, at the Library of Congress and the Newberry. With 50 plates, the Beinecke copy is more complete than either.

• Sir William Temple, statesman, author, patron of Jonathan Swift. Two extraordinary autograph manuscripts, both of them written while Temple (1628-99) was a young man.

• A True Romance, or the disastrous chances of love and fortune, sett forth in divers tragicall storys which in these lates ages have been but truely acted upon the stage of Europe. Autograph manuscript, [1648-50], with numerous revisions and deletions, addressed and dedicated to Dorothy Osborne. Temple's first know literary work, this tribute to his future wife, written in France between the ages of twenty and twenty-two, originally consisted of nine tales, here reduced to five, and was unpublished in its time. This manuscript, consisting of about 150 pages, must be among the earliest surviving manuscripts of English prose fiction, and it remained in family hands until 1994.

• A Treatise Concerning Idleness, or the art of well imploying our time, by way of conference. Autograph manuscript, with extensive corrections, deletions, and revisions. [England or France, ca. 1650] A hitherto unknown moral essay, in lively dialogue, by the young Temple. This long essay-in-dialogue (ca. 158 pages) is by no means a series of preceptual lectures or moral harangues. The speakers are sharply differentiated, and the sober instruction of one character, for example, is cleverly set off against the gibes or challenges of another, the unthinking responses and the feckless confessions of others.

  Two French texts follow the Treatise, in Temple's hand and similarly revised and corrected.

• John Dryden. Autograph letter, signed, comprising a critique of a translation of a passage from Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book I, by Thomas Creech.

  Autograph letters of Dryden are very rare; James Osborn boasted of owning Dryden's "most literary" letter. Now the Osborn Collection owns two, this one the equal of the first. Accompanying the Dryden letter is a long (4-page) autograph letter of Edmond Malone, Dryden's biographer and James Osborn's model in collecting and scholarship, concerning the text of the Dryden letter. The pair of documents makes a most appropriate addition to the Osborn Collection.

• Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard. Paris, Briasson, 1730.

  Silvia and Dorante are reluctantly engaged. They have not met. Silvia decides to put her fiance to a secret trial by exchanging identities with her maid Lisette. Unbeknownst to her, Dorante has done the same with his servant Arlequin. Silvia's father, Monsieur Orgon, and her brother Mario are aware of the situation and, like them, we observe the masters and the servants as they fall in love, each thinking that he or she is courting someone of a different social rank.

  The play was premiered on 23 January 1730 by Riccoboni's Comediens-Italiens. Silvia was the stage name of Gianetta Benozzi, one of the century's finest actresses and Marivaux's favorite; Arlequin was Thomassin, who created all of Marivaux's Arlequin roles. The play quickly became one of the author's most popular and can rightly be considered a milestone of 18th-century French theater. The first printing, which we acquired at a Paris auction in June, is exceptionally rare; the National Union Catalogue records one copy, at Harvard.

• Edward Young. Autograph letter, signed, to Samuel Richardson. 23 October 1757.

  A fine letter by the aged poet to his close friend, the novelist Samuel Richardson. Written at the age of 74, the letter graphically illustrates the depression and infirmity which clouded the end of Young's life. This brings to a dozen the number of autograph letters by Edward Young (1683-1765) in the Osborn Collection, including another letter to Richardson, written a few weeks earlier than this one.

• THE SAMUEL JOHNSON COLLECTION OF HERMAN W. LIEBERT

  The bulk of Fritz Liebert's Johnson collection, one of the finest two in private hands, has now found its permanent home in the Beinecke Library. It comprises more than five hundred works, representing a total of more than a thousand volumes by and relating to Johnson.

  Among its many treasures are: a large number of editions of Johnson's Dictionary, including the second (1755), third (1765), Dublin fourth (1775), fifth (1784), sixth (1785), seventh (1785), eighth (Dublin 1797 and London 1799), ninth (1805), and tenth (1810) editions, and several early abridged editions; nearly forty editions of the Lives of the Poets, including Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (London, 1790, six volumes); various printings of Johnson's edition of Shakespeare, including a first edition, first issue (London, 1765) and a unique variant issue, the first Dublin edition (1766), the 13-volume Dublin edition of 1771, the 10-volume London edition of 1773, and the third edition (London, 1785, 10 volumes); an extensive collection of editions of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, including a first edition in original wrappers, the first Dublin (1759), Philadelphia (1791), and Hartford (1803) editions, and John Ruskin's copy of the 1799 London printing; an equally extensive collection of editions of The Rambler, complete and abridged, including the 1750 Elphinston 2-volume edition, the 1750-52 Edinburgh edition in 8 volumes, the first Dublin edition (1752), and the first American edition (Philadelphia, 1803); various editions of the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, including a first edition with the 12-line errata and several contemporary Dublin editions; a copy of Hester Lynch Piozzi's Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London, 1788) annotated by Mrs. Piozzi; 20 editions of the Works of Samuel Johnson, from London 1792 to Troy, N.Y., 1903; and a large collection of early French, Italian, German, and Spanish translations of the Idler, the Rambler, Rasselas, and the Life of Savage.

  Other printed works include John Gwynn's London and Westminster Improved (1766), the first edition, with the plates uncolored; a variant issue (possibly unique) of John Kennedy's Complete System of Astronomical Chronology (London, 1762), David Garrick's copy of Luis de Camoens's La Lusiad (London, 1776), the first edition of William Julius Nickle's translation, signed by Garrick at the head of the title, and accompanied with a letter from Garrick to Nickle; and presentation copies of R. Anderson's Life of Johnson (1795) and A. Browne's Miscellaneous Sketches (1798).

  Together with the Samuel Johnson collection came an autograph collection comprising letters and manuscripts by William Allingham, Alfred Austin, Sir Joseph Banks, Joseph Baretti, Robert Bell, James Boswell, James Bruce, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Elihu Burritt, Alexander Chalmers, Sir Robert Chambers, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (six letters to the Chancelier D'Aguesseau) William Cole, George Colman the Younger, Thomas Cooke, Marie Corelli, George Crabbe (six "discarded" lines from "Rachel" which nevertheless appeared in his Posthumous Poems), Richard Cumberland, Thomas Davies, Sir Humphrey Davy, Eugene Debs, Father F. Vincentus de Torre, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, James Dodsley, Edward VII, Thomas Edwards, Sir George Everest, Percy Fitzgerald, Ian Fleming (seven typed letters, signed, to Herman W. Liebert), James Fordyce, Eva Maria Garrick, Thomas Guthrie, Warren Hastings, John Hawkesworth, Sir John Hawkins, Letitia Mathilda Hawkins, Reginald Heber, Edmund Hector, William Ernest Henley, George Birkbeck Hill, Robert James, Samuel Johnson, John Kennedy, Mary Knowles Bennett Langton, D. H. Lawrence, Charlotte Lennox (a 1752 letter to an unidentified correspondent, possibly Johnson, more probably Samuel Richardson), Marvin Lincoln, James Heywood Markland, William Monck Mason, Thomas Maurice, Hannah More, John Singleton Mosby, William Mudford, John Murray, Edweard Muybridge, Beverley Nichols, Alfred Noyes, Ouida, Francis Turner Palgrave, Pasquale Paoli (three autograph letters), Zachary Pearce, Sir Robert Peel, Montagu Pennington, Thomas Percy, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Camille Pissaro, William Pitt, Pius IX, Robert Potter, John Cowper Powys, Amanda Ros, T.H. Rose, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, Benjamin Silliman, Madeleine Hamilton Smith, E.O. Somerville, Herbert Spencer, Percival Stockdale, George Strahan, J.E. Swinburne, John Taylor, Jane Barnard Temple, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Martin Farquhar Tupper (a large collection of letters and manuscripts), Maurice de Vlaminck, Gilbert Walmesly, Evelyn Waugh, Caleb Whiteford, Thornton Wilder, David Wilkie, T.J. Wise, and Ludwig Zamenhof.

• EMERSON'S FIRST BOOK, ANNOUNCING HIS SEVERANCE FROM THE CHURCH

  Ralph Waldo Emerson. Letter from the Rev. R.W. Emerson, to the Second Church and Society. Boston: Printed by I. R. Butts [1832].

• TREASURES FROM THE PHILIP NEUFELD COLLECTION

  The Philip Neufeld Collection was sold at Christie's in New York on April 25 of this year and the Beinecke was fortunate in being able to acquire some of its gems.

• Robert Louis Stevenson. "A Visit From the Sea" and "To F.J.S." [Before 1887]

• "A Visit from the Sea" is one of Stevenson's best-known poems. It was originally published in the collection Underwoods in 1887. The second poem, ("I read, dear friend, in your face / Your life's tale told with perfect grace..."), untitled in the manuscript, was originally written in November 1873. The dedicatee was Frances Jane Sitwell, the future Lady Colvin, with whom Stevenson then conducted a passionate correspondence. The first fourteen lines of the poem appeared in Underwoods under the title "To F.J.S.," while the remaining nineteen, not present in this manuscript, first appeared posthumously in Three Short Poems in 1898.

• Algernon Charles Swinburne. A collection of poetic and prose manuscripts.

• The manuscript of a critical essay on Theophile de Viau, entitled "Theophile," written around 1866 and first published posthumously in 1915 by T.J. Wise in an edition of twenty copies. This manuscript was previously in the collection of Jerome Kern.

• The extensively revised autograph of the essay "Philip Massinger," originally printed in The Fortnightly Review (No. 271, New Series, 1 July 1889).

• Miscellaneous manuscripts of literary essays: one on William Collins, published in Miscellanies (1886); one entitled "Short Notes on English Poets," published in the same collection; one comprising a rough draft and notes chiefly on the early romantic poets; one on dramatic poetry, published in Miscellanies; and one, in French, on Shelley and The Cenci, published in Studies in Prose and Poetry (1894).

• A large collection of poetical manuscripts, including some of Swinburne's best-known work, comprising: "Hymn to Proserpine" (a rejected version of the poem later published in the 1866 Poems and Ballads), and the following from the second series of Poems and Ballads (1878): "Prelude," "Sublustre Luce" (published as "Tenebrae"), "Mater Dolorosa," "The Complaint of the Fair Amouress," "Ode: Le tombeau de Theophile Gautier," "Nocturne" (in French), "Sonnet" (in French), "Spring in Tuscany," "Child's Song," "The Ballads of the Lords of Old Time," "A Double Ballad of Good Counsel," "Epistle in Form of a Ballad to his Friends," "The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself...", "Ballad Written for a Bridegroom," "Grand Chorus of Birds, from Aristophanes," "Erectheus," "Before a Crucifix," "Prolonged Sonnet to Antinous," "Mater Triumphalis," "The Pilgrims," "Genesis," "Triads," "Ballad of the Women of Paris," "In the Rosery" (published as "The Year of Roses," together with a later draft in another hand, annotated and signed by Swinburne), "The Dispute of the Soul and Body of Francois Villon," "Choriambics," "Six Years Old, to H.W.M.," "Halt Before Rome," "Dedication, 1878" (to Burne-Jones and William Morris), "Studies in Song: Song for the Centenary of Walter Savage Landor" (1875).

  Among the manuscripts published in other collections are "Comparisons," "Locusta," "Dedication to Alice Swinburne," "A Ballad at Parting," "The Year of the Rose," and "The Tulip." "Sonnet Against France" and "To France" appear to be unpublished.

  The most important fragment is the first page of an early draft of the opening chorus of Atalanta in Calydon, beginning "Thou art clothed with strength..." The collection also includes a corrected proof of the prologue to The Revengers Tragedy and a number of poetic drafts and unidentified poetic fragments. The manuscript of the poem "St. Dorothy," which was part of Swinburne's first, controversal book of poems, Poems and Ballads (1866). The manuscript of the poem "Trafalgar Day," dated 21 October 1895, published in A Channel Passage and Other Poems, 1904.

• Sir William Watson. Autograph manuscripts of eighteen poems 1870s-80s.

  Five of the poems were published in three of Watson's early collections, The Prince's Quest (1880), Lacrimae Musarum (1892), and Poems (1892). The one here entitled "Beethoven" was published as "Schubert." The other thirteen appear to be unpublished.

• William De Morgan. It Never Can Happen Again. Autograph manuscript 1905-08?.

  The complete holograph manuscript of William De Morgan's fourth novel, first published in 1909. De Morgan never repeated the success of his first novel, Joseph Vance, published at the age of 67. Following this, he published one more and left two unfinished books at his death in 1917. They were completed and published by his widow.

• William McFee. "On the Malecon." Autograph manuscript, 1923.

  This sea story was written in Westport, Connecticut, in May-June 1923 and first printed in Harper's Magazine for February 1924. It was later collected in Sailors of Fortune (1929). The manuscript is accompanied by two letters from McFee to Philip Neufeld and one to Samuel Steinberg. The title page bears a presentation inscription to Philip M. Neufeld.

• Sir Hugh Walpole. Captain Nicholas. Autograph manuscript, 1932-33.

  Complete manuscript of Hugh Walpole's novel, first published in London in 1934. A note from the author on page 2 indicates that it was begun in Edinburgh on Christmas Eve 1932 and finished in Brighton in August 1933. The working title for the novel was "Spring Evening."

• ICELANDIC SAGAS

  The collection of Icelandic sagas recently acquired by the Beinecke Library was formed by Walter Emery, the English Bach scholar. It comprises 132 titles, from the 17th century to modern times, including several from the library of William Morris (who translated the Grettla saga) which bear the Kelmscott House, Hammersmith bookplate.

  Among the collection's highlights are Saga Pess Holffega Herra Olafs Trig va Sonar Norvegs Kongs (Skalholt, 1689, from the Kelmscott Library), Sagan af Niali Progeirssyni ok Sonum Hans (Copenhagen, 1772, from the Kelmscott Library) Hungurkava, sive Historia primorum quinque Skalholtensium im Islandia episcoporum, Pals Biskups Saga, sive Historia Pauli Episcopi & Pattr. af Thorvalli Vidforla sive Narratio de Thorvalldo peregrinatore (Copenhagen, 1778), Orkneyinga Saga sive Historia Orcadensium a prima Orcadum per Norvegos occupatione ad exityum seculi duodecimi, Saga hins Helga Magnusar Eyia Jarls sive Vita sancti magni insularum comitis (Copenhagen, 1780), Lodbrokar-Quida, or, the Death-Song of Lodbroc (n.p., 1782) and Antiquitates celto-scandicae (Copenhagen, 1786), two scarce original printings of the original translations by the Reverend James Johnstone, chaplain to His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Denmark, Eyrbyggia-Saga sive Eyranorum Historia quam mandate et impenas faciente Perill P.F. Suhm versione lectionum varietate ac indice rerum (Copenhagen, 1787, from the Kelmscott Library), Sturlunga-Saga edr Islendinga-Saga lin Mikla (Copenhagen, 1817-20, from the Kelmscott Library), Kormaks Saga sive Kormaki Oegmundi filli vita (Copenhagen, 1832, from the Kelmscott Library), Olafs Saga Hins Helga, en Kort Sagam om Kong Olaf den Hellige Fra Anden Halvdeel af det Tolflte Aarhundrede (Christiana, 1849, from the Kelmscott Library), and Formsogur Vatnsdaelasaga Hallfredarsaga Floammanasaga (Leipzig, 1860, from the Kelmscott Library).

• Humphrey Lloyd Hime. Photographs Taken at Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North, to Illustrate a Narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions in Rupert's Land by Henry Youle Hind...in charge of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Expedition. London: J. Hogarth, 1860. 30 original photographs; 3 pages of text on 2 leaves with title and list of plates.

  The Hind expedition of 1858 was the first western survey in North America from which photographs have survived. It was the first expedition on which the wet-plate process--which allowed prints to be made directly from negatives--was successfully used. Two previous expeditions, the Pacific Railroad survey and the Fremont expedition, both of 1853, utilized the daguerreotype process, but with the exception of one unclear image in the Library of Congress attributed to the railroad survey, no photographs from those earlier surveys have survived.

  From the Hind expedition, only forty-eight photographs by H.L. Hime are known to be extant, thirty of the best taken at the Red River settlement in September and October of 1858. These thirty were printed in England and issued by J. Hogarth as a portfolio intended to supplement Hind's Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1858 (London, 1860). The portfolio includes five striking portraits of mixed-bloods and Indians at the Red River settlement; Indian wigwams and graves; a Blackfoot painted pictorial robe; dog sleds; houses, stores and forts at Red River, including the Hudson Bay Co. Officers' Quarters and the Fur Store; churches of the settlement; birch bark canoes and a freighter's longboat; and views of the Red River and the prairie. These are the earliest photographs of the Canadian West and among the earliest of Native Americans.

  Hime's photographs are extremely rare. The National Union Catalogue lists only one copy of the portfolio, in the Library of Congress. It is not listed in the British Library catalogues, and only three Canadian repositories record a copy. It appears that the portfolio has never been offered at auction, and the present copy may be the only one ever offered on the antiquarian market.

• A HERMANN BAHR COLLECTION

  Hermann Bahr (1863-1934) was the leading advocate of modernism in turn-of-the-century Austria. Although undeniably tendentious, he was a versatile writer who produced plays (many of them in Viennese dialect), novels, an autobiography, essays, and literary criticism. His lifelong association with the theater yielded innumerable reviews and provided thematic material for many of his novels. Bahr was notoriously changeable in his intellectual allegiances--he deserted naturalism for decadence, decadence for modernism, modernism for expressionism, and expressionism for provincialism. While his contemporaries mocked him as a chameleon, his writings map the literary history of fin-de-siecle Austria.

  The collection purchased this summer includes over 115 books and pamphlets, representing a large part of Bahr's output (the latest edition of Wilpert-Guehring credits him with 136 works). It is a particularly valuable resource because very little of Bahr's writing has been reprinted. While this has to do in part with the writing itself, it is also true that the executors of Bahr's estate have long hampered the reprinting of his works. Another factor that has detracted from Bahr's reputation is the determined vilification he suffered at the hands of the prominent Austrian critic Karl Kraus. Kraus accused Bahr of anti-Semitism (Bahr quickly renounced a brief and early step in that direction) and of writing slanted theater reviews. In 1901 Bahr won a libel suit against Kraus; as a reviewer, he was acquitted of collusion with a theater director.

• VICTOR SERGE PAPERS

  Born in 1890 of Russian parents exiled in Belgium, Victor Lvovich Kibalchich grew up as a socialist with anarchist leanings. Unjustly implicated in the notorious Bonnot outrage in 1913, he was convicted and spent five years in a French penitentiary. Expelled from France upon his release in 1917, detained there again as a "Bolchevik suspect" at the end of the war, he was exchanged for a French officer held by the Soviets and arrived in Russia in the winter of 1918-19.

  Even before officially joining the Communist Party in 1920, Serge was active in assisting Zinoviev to organize the newly formed Comintern as well as publicizing the achievements of the revolution in his writings. This put him in contact with some of the leading Russian writers of the time, among whom were Mayakovsky, Bely, Essenin, Gorky, and Blok. From 1922 until 1926, Serge served as editor of Imprekorr , the Comintern press service, first in Vienna, then in Berlin.

  In 1928, he fell foul with Stalin and was expelled from the Party. During the next five years, he wrote (in French) some of his most important books, including L'an un de la revolution (Year One of the Revolution) and three novels. When his fame and news of the persecutions aginst him reached Western Europe, his fate was one of the questions debated at the 1935 Congress for the Defense of Culture held in Paris. In 1936 Serge was granted a visa and left Russia, although some of his papers were confiscated at the border. Having settled in Brussels, Serge vigorously denounced the Stalinist terror and the Moscow Trials. He also assisted the non-Communist wing of the Spanish Republicans, while writing one of his masterpieces, the novel Il est minuit dans le siecle (Midnight in the Century). In 1940, he fled Nazi-occupied France and moved to Mexico, where he died in 1947.

  The archive acquired by the Beinecke from his son, the painter Vlady Kibalchich, comprises all Serge's extant papers from 1912 until his death: numerous research files and drafts of articles, the manuscripts of several of his books, including Il est minuit dans le siecle, L'affaire Toulaev, Les annees sans pardon, and Vie et mort de Leon Trotsky (with notes by Natalia Trotsky), and miscellaneous material and correspondence, including letters from L. and N. Trotsky, Andre Gide, Leon Werth, Emmanuel Mounier, Octavio Paz, Jean Giono, Georges Duhamel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Daniel Guerin, and George Orwell.

• Ovid. The Love Books of Ovid. Being the Amores, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris and Medicamina faciei femineae of Publius Ovidius Naso. Translated out of the Latin by J. Lewis May. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head Limited, 1925. Inscribed and autographed by Jean de Bosschere for Harry Crosby. Manuscript notes and underlining throughout the text. Bookplate: Harry and Caresse [Crosby].

• Gamel Woolsey. 315 ALS and 4 APCS to Alyse Gregory, 1932-65, document the literary lives of two expatriate American writers married to British writers Gerald Brenan and Llewelyn Powys.

• Mary Nettleton Haight. 2 TLS and 1 telegram to Mary Nettleton from Alice B. Toklas. Various places, 1934 December 3-1935 January 17. TLS to Mary Nettleton from Paul W. Cooley. Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1934 Dec 13. While at Vassar, Mary Nettleton corresponded with Alice B. Toklas concerning her tour of the United States with Gertrude Stein.

• JAMES KIRKUP PAPERS

  The poet, travel writer, playwright, autobiographer, translator, and editor James Kirkup was born in 1918 in the county of Durham. After graduating from Durham University in 1941, he applied for conscientious objector status and spent five years in an agricultural labor camp, during which time he published his first poems. His first book, The Drowned Sailor and Other Poems (1947), brought him into contact with J.R. Ackerley, the celebrated editor of The Listener, who became a close friend. He subsequently published The Submerged Village and Other Poems (1951), A Correct Compassion and Other Poems (1952), A Spring Journey and Other Poems (1954), and The Descent into the Cave and Other Poems (1957).

  Having taught for three years in Corsham, Wiltshire, Kirkup spent the following years abroad: in Sweden, Spain, and, from 1959 onwards, as professor of English at Tohoku University in Sendai, in Japan, where he remained until 1961. He returned to Japan in 1963, first in Tokyo until 1970, then in Nagoya until 1972. His Japanese stay profoundly influenced his later work: The Prodigal Son: Poems 1956-1959 (1959), Refusal to Conform: Last and First Poems (1963), Japan Marine (1965), and Paper Windows: Poems from Japan (1968). The years 1972-75 took him to the United States, Morocco, and Ireland. After teaching in Cardiff in 1976-77, he moved to the principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees, which has been his residence since, while keeping close ties with Japan. In that same year 1977, the publication of his poem "The love that dares to speak its name" in Gay News triggered the first blasphemy trial in England for more than a century.

  His archive, now acquired by the Beinecke, comprises all his extant literary manuscripts, notebooks, and working files. Correspondents include many of Kirkup's Japanese friends and J.R. Ackerley, Eric Bentley, Rene de Ceccaty, Richard Church, Alex Comfort, Gloria Evan Davis, Margaret Drabble, Tom Driberg, Bonamy Dobree, Feyyaz Fergar, Christopher Fry, Edouard Glissant, Philippe Jaccotet, Rose Macaulay, Raymond Mortimer, J. Middleton Mury, David Paul, Kathleen Raine, Alan Ross, Stephen Spender, Jules Supervielle, Kenneth Tynan, and Arnold Wesker, among others. Also present in the archive is a long series of letters from Kirkup to his Japanese literary friend Akiko Takemoto.

• JOSEPHINE BAKER

  Eleven scrapbooks acquired from a French collector contain letters from Baker to her family and others, business correspondence, notes for her autobiography, and printed material documenting her tour of Argentina in the 1950s. There is additional information concerning her "Rainbow Tribe" of adopted children and their home at Les Milandes, France. The notes and letters in her hand are among the few known to survive.

• Isabel Wilder. 10 ALS to William Layton, 1952-93, concerning Thornton Wilder and Layton's career as a director in Spain.

• MIMEOGRAPH POETRY

  Little magazines created with the desktop publishing arts of 1960 to 1980, these fifty-seven titles, many in complete runs, offer such period writers as Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein, Joe Brainard, and Anne Waldman in periodicals with such names as "Angel Hair," "Knock Knock," and "Shinbone Alley."

• Leslie Marmon Silko. Laguna Woman. Greenfield Center, New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1974, with illustrations by the author and Aaron Yava. Raised at the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, Leslie Silko graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1969. This is her first book.

• JOHN GUARE PAPERS

  Writings, correspondence, and printed material by, or relating to John Guare. Includes Six Degrees of Separation (typescripts, with related material), Women and Water (typescripts, with related material), Lydia Breeze (typescripts, various drafts, with related material); letters from Edward Albee, Louis Malle, Dina Merrill, Ira and Leonard Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Dramatists Guild Fund, Inc., American Conservatory Theater, and others.

• Celia Alvarez Munoz. Espiritu malo. Enlightenment #6. Arlington, Texas, 1986. An artist's book by a Chicana poet.

• J.D. McCLATCHY PAPERS

  Correspondence, writings, personal papers, audio tapes, and printed material by or relating to J. D. McClatchy, including letters from Alfred Corn, Thom Gunn, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, and others. Manuscripts include The Rest of the Way, by J. D. McClatchy (typescript, proofs and related material); writings by others; and personal papers, including school papers, juvenilia, and memorabilia.

• Anthony Hecht and Leonard Baskin. Presumptions of Death. Poems by Anthony Hecht. Woodcuts by Leonard Baskin. Rockport, Maine, 1995. "Fifty copies of this book have been printed at The Gehenna Press in the beneficent winter of 1995. Arthur Larson has printed the letterpress on Velke Losiny, a Czechoslovakian hand-made paper. All the prints are signed by the artist. The colophon is signed by the artist and the poet. This copy is number 23."

• Richard Tuttle and Barbara Guest. The Altos. [Illustrations by] Richard Tuttle. [Poems by] Barbara Guest. San Francisco: Hine Editions/Limestone Press, 1991. Copy XXI signed by the author and the artist.