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...Widener Library has just acquired by gift four relics of Robert Louis Stevenson which are the finest of any in the entire Stevenson collection in the Treasure Room of Widener, and are probably among the most valuable in the country. Three of the acquisitions are the gift of Mrs. Hamilton Rice (Mrs. Widener), of Philadelphia, and the fourth was donated to the University by the wife of the late Frederick Guion Ireland '68, of New York. They number a copy of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with a rhymed inscription; the corrected proof sheets of "Underwoods"; one of ten printed...
...Ireland's gift to Widener is a letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads...
...gift of Robert Louis Stevenson mementos just acquired by the Widener Library, an addition of unusual interest and value has been made to what is already one of the most valuable collections of old manuscripts, first editions, personal letters, and relics of great authors in this country. Too little attention is paid by undergraduates to these important and rare collections, which, despite the fact that they are kept in glass cases, are readily accessible for study and inspection by those who are sufficiently interested to take the pains to see them...
...many of the wounded find music one of the few forms of amusement open to them; and some of the seriously disfigured are attempting to learn to play as a future means of support when they leave the hospitals. This form of charity offers an opportunity for a gift of real consequence, which necessitates no privation on the part of the giver...
...Treasurer announced the receipt of $10,696.66 from the estate of Miss Rebecca W. Brown, to be added to the fund created by her brother, Dr. Buckminster Brown, for the foundation of a Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery. A gift of $2,200 was also reported by the Treasurer, given by the following graduates for improving the soil and for planting shrubs and vines in the Yard: F. L. Ames '54, O. Ames '86, W. C. Baylies '84, H. B. Cabot '83, W. Endicott '87, C. S. Fairchild '63, A. Hemenway '75, H. S. Hunnewell '75, W. Hunnewell...