Scope and Contents Three letters from Brian Hill to Clifford Kitchins:September 2, 1957: Hill sends a forthcoming publication [perhaps his translation of Paul Verlaine's "The Sky Above the Roof," published that year], writing "I hope you like this & don't find too much to criticize (or too many printing errors!"). Publication date is Sept. 20th, but I felt you should have one of the first copies since you were, as it were, in at the conception."October 19, 1962: Hill sends a copy of...

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Bound play manuscript in German, "Der Hofmeister und die Gouvernante," about 1783-1806. Accompanied by a published version of the play edited by Michael M. Metzger and Gerard F. Schmidt (Water de Gruyter & Co., 1969). Schmidt has inscribed the published volume "Given to the Library of SUNY Binghamton, to accompany the original manuscript of the play."

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Twelve-page typescript review essay, focused in part on John Gardner's 1978 book "On Moral Fiction." Lester goes on to discuss the views of the literary establishment toward children's literature, and concludes with what he calls an example of moral fiction, "an African tale which my wife and I have rewritten. It is a tale from the Baila people of Zambia which they call 'The Child and the Eagle.' My wife and I have renamed it 'The Man Who Knew Too Much.'"

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Portrait postcard from George M. Mélas to Miss May Barwell of Barkfold House, Billinghurst, Suffolk, wishing the recipient and her mother a happy new year and noting that she will shortly receive a book.

Mélas (1866 - 1931) was a private secretary to King Constantine I of Greece, and later lived in London, where he was a member of the Devonshire Club.

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Letter from Jules Michelet, in French. Postmark dated January 11, 1838.

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Letter from the Austrian novelist Karoline Pichler dated July 23, 1829 and written in German. Recipient may be named Maltitz.

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One letter to Eva van Blomberg, undated; one postcard dated April 19, 1899, and a posthumous cabinet card photograph of Friedrich Preller the Elder, dated in manuscript April 23, 1878 (the day of Preller's death). Letter and postcard are written in German.

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Letter or letter fragment in French, signed and dated variously.

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Letter from H. W. Robbins to Professor Brown, January 15, 1923. Typed on letterhead of the University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric and Public Speaking. Robbins thanks Brown for copying out citations from books not available at the University of Minnesota, and presents "herewith the few deductions I have been able to make regarding the translation of Guilel. Bewfu."

Scope and Contents Letter from Ellen Terry to Charles Oram Lander, February 3, 1917. At the top of the first page is written vertically "Pray excuse a 'dictated' note." Terry thanks Lander for his note and writes that she should have written sooner but that she has been "laid up by an attack of bronchitis." The letter is signed in green ink, and on the verso she has added, also in green, "If you care to take the chance of finding me at home some evening about 5 o'clock pray look in at 215 'to say how do you...