Evening star., 1940-01-31
Report Of MacLeish
Lists Valuable Gifts 10
Library Of Congress
41,173 Volumes and
Pamphlets Received,
Setting Record
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Many notable gifts to the Lii
brary of Congress are announced
in the annual report of Archibald
MacLeish, librarian since October /,
filed at noon today.
Referring to the 12-month period
ended June 30, 1889, during which
DR.. Herbert Putnam was finishing
four decades as head of "the largest
institution of its kind in the world"
the new librarian says: ''This was
notable year in the history of the
Library. During its course the Lii
brary occupied the new annex build
ing and the pavilion generously
given by Mrs. Gertrude Clarke
Whittall. During the course of the
year also the Hispanic room of the
Library of Congress, made possible
by the cooperation of the Hispanic
Society of America and its president,
Archer M. Huntington, was approx
mately completed. 1t was dedicated
on october IL, Columbus Day."
New High in Volume Gifts.
Mr.. MacLeish acknowledges "gifts
from individuals and other unoffi-
cial sources" to the number of
4l,173 volumes and pamphlets, "by
far the highest total yet recorded,
the next highest being that of 1887,
when 28, ,734 were received" The His
panic Society, he explains, gave
8,097 volumes of dramatic works IN
Spanish. Other donors included
Mrs. w. M. Brodie, ATT volumes;
DR.. Victor S. Clark, 116; John
Augustus K. Eveningstar, in mem
ory of his mother, 1872; Emanuel
Hertz, Abraham Lincoln collection,
81; Edison L. Whitney, 369; DR.. Gus
tave Percival Wiksell, Walt Whit
man collection, "a, and Albert Adsit
Clemons, by bequest, 1,205.
The Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington gave 551 volumes, 474 pamph-
lets and 453 issues of periodicals,
and the National American Woman
Suffrage Association and its presi-
dent, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
9O1 volumes and pamphlets.
Mr.. MacLeish thanks Frank j.
Hogan, former president of the
American Bar Association, for "a
generous contribution which has
made possible the purchase Of the
book-length prose manuscript Of
'Deirdre,' by James Stephens :.
signed, corrected and dated by the
author"
Other Manuscripts Submitted.
Other manuscripts were given by
Hilaire Belloc, Lord Dunsany,
Stephen Gwynn, Laurence Hous-
man, Mrs. Joyce Kilmer, Ernest
Rhys, Lennox Robinson, George
Santayana, Siegfried Sassoon and
Jack B. Yeats. Mrs. Whittall pre-
sented the Watts-Dunton collection
of Dante Gabriel Rossetti manu-
script poems and letters, and the
Richard Herne Shepherd collection
of Lord Tennyson's poems and auto
graph notes.
The Library likewise acquired the
holograph of John Philip Sousa's
famous march, 1.-THE Stars and
Stripes Forever" arranged for
piano; 76 volumes of collected biog-
raphies of eminent Chinese of the
past 300 years, all in manuscript
from the imperial palace in Peking;
the family papers of Charles Cotes-
worth Pinckney 1746- 1925, planter,
soldier, statesman and diplomat,
perhaps the most eminent and GER
tainly the most esteemed South
Carolinian of his generation; ad-
ditional papers from the files of the
late Elihu Root and a number of
letters written by Sir Cecil SPRING
Rice, British Ambassador, to Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt.
Harry Gennett of Richmond,
Ind, the librarian reports, pre-
sented six phonograph records bear
ing speeches of William Jennings
Bryan, including his celebrated
Gross of Gold" grafton.
Mr.. MacLeish further chronicles
receipt of 200 pieces of manuscript
to supplement the collection of Blair
papers, given by Mrs. Breckenridge
Long, granddaughter of Francis
Preston Blair, jr. He discloses that
Mrs. Olivia M. Cutting has given to
the Library the correspondence files
of her son, the late Senator Bronson
Cutting of New Mexico.
Gift Received From Hurja.
OF especial interest as bearing
upon Colonial trade and industry
is the gift of Emil Hurja-167 box
PORTFOLIOS of papers once the prnn-