Evening star., 1933-11-26
FO[GER LIBRARY
REPORT IS MADE
Director SIade Informs Trus.
tees Books and Pam.
phIets Number 81, ,502.

The books and pamphlets in the Fol-
ger Shakespeare Library, on its removal
to Washington, numbered 81 500, ac-
cording to a report just made to the
trustees of Amherst College, as trustees
OF the library, by its director, william
Adams Slade.
In the arrangement of the collections,
Mr. Slade reports. manuscripts before
the year 100 were. brought together TO
the number of 4,500, and manuscripts
after that date to the number Of 15,5O0
Besides these, other manuscripts which
the library possesses, estimated as num-
bering $4,000, are now being arranged.
In addition the library contains some
10000 play bills, 211 oil paintings, l.
z34 water color paintings, nearly 1000
pen and pencil drawings, $4,000 prints.
nearly 1900 photographs, 873 bound
volumes of music, l,I0o pieces OF sheet
music. 1876 maps, SO pieces of Statuary,
portrait figures and busts; 256 stage
properties, including costumes, and a
considerable number of curios, relics
and museum pieces generally, the pre-
else number of which is not yet de-
termined. The collections were brought
from New York and Brooklyn.
l15,224 Visitors ut Library.
The report of the director covers the
fiscal year July /, 1932-June 80, 1888.
During this period, lis, ,224 persons Wis
tied the library. Former Supreme Court
Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, pre-
sented a copy of Shakespeare which had
been the possession of his father, the
physician, poet. and esSayiSt. Mrs. AL
bert j. Beveridge presented the volumes
of Shakespeare formerly owned by her
husband. the late Senator Beverldge,
and Miss Susan Sedgwick Hopkins OF
Williamstown, Mass, the volume OF
Shakespeare once owned by President
Mark Hopkins of Williams College. Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie has recently donated
her husbands set of Shakespeare.
DR.. George A. Plimpton Of New York
presented a manuscript document on
vellum, dated at Rouen, January 4, 1435,
relating to Sir John Fastolf, the original
in name of Shakespeare's Sir John Fall
staff. Lord Revelstoke of Revelstoke,
Devon, England, following a visit to
the library, sent to 1t statuette OF
Shakespeare, modelled in stone ware, by
the process known as saltglaze, by
Enoch Wood of Burslem. somewhere
about the end of the eighteenth CEN
tury.
Donates Letters From Actors.
Daniel Frohman of New York made
the gift of 20 holosrapl letters written
to him by actors, actresses and others.
Mrs. James Parmelee of Washington.
among a succession of gifts, presented
eight antique embroidered hangings.
Altogether, TIT additions by gifts we're
made to the collections, this number
including a number received prior to
the date with which the directors re-
port begins.
Accession by purchase was made OF
the Jansen portrait of Shakespeare.
Other additions included collection
of 18 manuscripts of the time OF
Shakespeare, comprising seven plays
and masques-two of the masques be-
ing by Ben Jonson-and IL other pieces
in prose and verse: an early seventeenth
century volume Of plays and poems in
manuscript. written ON 88 leaves, the
author possibly a scholar of Trinity Col
lege, Cambridge: and IL unpublished
manuscript diaries Of John Payne Col
lier.