ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries March 1994/163 provide students and faculty with services that will complement honors courses. Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, has received a grant o f $326,000 from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust o f Portland, Oregon. The funds w ill be used for the automation o f the College o f Law Library and the incorpora­ tion o f its bibliographic records into the Mark O. Hatfield Library’s existing Innovative Inter­ faces system. Grant m oney will also be used to add serials and acquisitions modules to the existing library system and for a variety o f other systems and database enhancements. Acquisitions A major collection of first editions of Ameri­ can literature and history has been acquired by Bennington College’s C rossett Library, Bennington, Vermont. The gift o f approximately 800 volumes was made jointly by Daniel M. Friedenberg and John-Platt Enterprises, Inc., o f which Friedenberg is president. The collection includes such rarities as The Education o f Henry Adams from the first private edition o f 75 cop­ ies, as w ell as first editions o f Cooper, Haw­ thorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Twain. Signed presentation copies o f Whitman’s Leaves o f Grass and Henry James’s The Lesson o f the Master are also included. Am ong twentieth-cen- tury authors represented are first editions o f James Baldwin, Raymond Chandler, T. S. Eliot, and Ralph Ellison. A gift of 28,000 volumes from the Coun­ cil on Foreign Relations Library has been re­ ceived by the Hunter College Libraries, N ew York City. Consisting o f monographs, interna­ tional government documents, and papers, the collection extensively covers global politics, his­ tory, and econom ic issues. In particular the collection emphasizes the post-World W ar II era and Soviet-American relations. The Council’s mission to improve understanding o f interna­ tional issues and shape American foreign policy has resulted in a particularly strong foreign af­ fairs collection. The editorial records and files of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., one o f the nation’s most respected independent publishing houses, have been acquired by the New York Public Li­ brary. The archive, which spans the years 1946 through 1980, contains correspondence detail­ ing the manuscript selection process, negotia­ tions for foreign and subsidiary rights and per­ missions, and royalty agreements, and provides a rare glimpse into the public and personal lives o f authors. Am ong the many notable items is correspondence betw een T. S. Eliot and his wife, Valerie Eliot, and Robert Giroux, Eliot’s editor. The writings include such procedural matters as the scheduling o f lecture tours, read­ ings, and social engagements, to more personal needs, such as hiding Eliot’s health concerns from the media. The archives of the magazine Factsh e e t Five, probably the largest known collection o f alternative literature o f the 1980s, have been acquired by the New York State Library’s Manuscripts and Special Collections Depart­ ment. Factsheet Five was the brainchild o f Mike Gunderloy, the founder, editor, and publisher for the magazine’s first decade beginning in 1982. He wrote most o f the reviews and pub­ lished 44 issues o f the journal, which abstracted and reviewed thousands o f “zines,” publications usually created by one person for love rather than m oney and focusing on a particular sub­ ject. The reviews covered an amazing spectrum o f zines: issue-oriented, both far left and far right; underground literature and poetry; erotica; avant-garde rock and punk music; adult com ­ ics; and a host o f other topics. The Texas Postal History Collection of Walter G. Schmidt has been acquired by the Special Collections Division o f the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Schmidt was a retired military officer w h o was an avid stamp collector and compiler o f postal history and information. The collection includes a com pre­ hensive list o f more than 20,000 Texas post offices along with newspaper clippings on lo­ cal history for each office. It covers Texas post offices and postmasters from the Spanish era through the 1970s. ■ Ed. note; Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, press releases, and other sources. To ensure that your grant and acquisition news is considered f o r publication, write to Pam Spie­ gel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.