ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


March 1 9 9 3 /1 6 1

for International Education to increase materi­
als in its holdings. The grant, w hich totals 
$40,000 for the first year, will enable the li­
brary to enlarge its collection of periodical lit­
erature.

A cq u isition s
Alton P. English's privately published book,
The Young Family, 1240-1990, has been ac­
quired by the A rizona State U niversity Li­
braries’ Arizona Collection, Department of Ar­
chives and Manuscripts. English’s book traces 
the lineage of the Young (Yang) Family from 
its roots in 11th-century China to settlement of 
the “Young Association” in Ï9th-century Ha­
waii and 20th-century Los Angeles and Phoe­
nix. English’s work is based partly on original 
ancestral tablets transported from China to Ha­
waii by the Young family in 1935.

The B arbara Simonds Cornerstone Collec­
tion of Ecumenical Study Documents and Pa­
pers has been acquired by the Cathedral Li­
brary o f  St. J o h n  th e D ivine in New York

City. The collection consists of papers and cor­
respondence from 1890-1989. Simonds founded 
the library in the 1930s, and later moved the 
collection to Rome, w here she organized and 
h o s te d  p ilg rim ag es to  p ro m o te  h e r c o n ­
viction that church unity was necessary for world 
peace.

The collection o f th e Los Angeles C ounty
Medical Association Library, which closed in 
1991, has been acquired by the H untington 
Library and UCLA’s Louise Darling Biomedi­
cal Library. The collection has great historical 
significance to medical historians. The Hunting- 
ton Library received 6,250 volumes, including 
1,500 rare books on medicine and botany. UCLA 
received 24,943 volumes, including the whole 
of the Barlow Medical Library, a 14,000-vol- 
ume collection of 19th- and early-20th-century 
medical works.

The papers o f geographer and poet James
Wreford Watson have been acquired by the 
McMaster U niversity Library. Watson taught 
geography at various British and Canadian uni­
versities—am ong them  Sheffield University, 
McMaster University, and the University of 
Edinburgh— and published num erous books



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and articles on the geography of Canada and 
the United States. He was also an accomplished 
poet who received the 1951 Governor General’s 
award for poetry for his book O f Time a n d  the 
Lover. Watson’s papers include many journals 
of poetry, some dating back to when he was a 
young man.

The personal papers of Dr. C. Everett Koop,
Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Ser­
vice from 1981 to 1989, have been acquired by 
the National Library o f  Medicine. Koop’s 
papers, totalling almost 50 linear feet, touch 
on all important activities of his term. The col­
lection contains personal correspondence, 
nonofficial copies of official correspondence, 
invitations, copies of speeches, and many pub­
lications about the health concerns of the U.S. 
in the 1980s. Koop advised the public on mat­
ters such as smoking and health, diet and nu­
trition, environmental health hazards, and the 
importance of immunization in preventing the 
spread of disease. He also led a vigorous cam­
paign to prevent the spread of AIDS, and he 
worked to protect handicapped infants.

Six thousand Russian children's and young
adult books, 1,250 volumes of Russian literary

works, and 450 volumes on Russian perform­
ing arts, as well as items on Russian linguistics 
and Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian history, have 
been acquired by the Stanford University Li­
braries from the Harry Ransom Humanities 
Center, University of Texas at Austin. Most of 
the books in this acquisition were published 
from 1940 to 1965.

The archive of Eric W alter W hite (1 9 0 5 -
1984), an English musicologist, author, and arts 
administrator, has been acquired by the Harry 
Ransom Humanities Research Center at the 
University o f Texas at Austin. White, who 
wrote extensively on English opera, is best 
known for his biographies: Stravinsky: The Com­
poser a n d  His Works (1966), Benjamin Britten: 
His Life a nd Operas (1970), and Tippet an d  His 
Operas (1979). The archive contains over 150 
autograph letters and postcards from Tippet to 
White, 50 letters and postcards from Britten to 
White, and correspondence from Stravinsky, 
including autographed pen-and-ink sketches of 
him conducting. The archive also contains 
White’s lifelong correspondence with such Brit­
ish literary figures as W. H. Auden, John 
Betjeman, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, Dylan 
Thomas, and Stephen Spender. ■