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Ann­Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

E m o r y  U n i v e r s i t y  h a s  b e e n  a w a r d e d  
grants to revise and expand a database 
of slave trade voyages—fully 82 percent of 
the entire history of the slave trade—and make 
the material available for free on the Internet. 
The grants include $324,000 from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities and $25,000 
from Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois 
Institute for African and African American Re­
search. The expansion of the current database 
is based on the seminal 1999 work The Trans­
Atlantic Slave Trade, a CD­ROM that includes 
more than 27,000 slave trade voyages and has 
been popular with scholars and genealogists. 
In addition to increasing the number of slave 
trade voyages from the original work by nearly 
30 percent, the grant will allow the addition 
of new information to more than one­third of 
the voyages already included in the CD­ROM. 
The database will include auxiliary materials, 
such as maps, ship logs, and manifests. It also 
will be presented in a two­tier format: one 
for professional researchers, another for K­12 
students and general audiences. 

U n i v e r s i t y  o f  C a l i f o r n i a ­ L o s  A n g e l e s  
Library has received $100,000 from Ken 
Karmiole, owner of Kenneth Karmiole, Book­
seller Inc., to establish the Kenneth Karmiole 
Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts, 
which will support the acquisition of special 
collections materials throughout the library. 
Karmiole is the first member of the library’s 
recently established Board of Visitors to make 
a major gift in support of the library. The 
endowment will be used to acquire materials 
for the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library 
History and Special Collections, Performing 
Arts Special Collections, and the Charles E. 
Young Research Library Department of Special 
Collections. Holdings in these departments 
encompass artists’ books, business archives, 

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drawings and prints, literary manuscripts, 
maps, museum objects, personal papers, pho­
tographs, rare books, printed and manuscript 
music scores, and scripts. 

The University Libraries of the University 
of Memphis (UM) was primary benefi ciary of 
a bequest of Lawrence and Sarah J. Wynn. 
The bequest included a collection of romantic 
and Victorian literature and a monetary gift 
of more than $300,000 to endow the collec­
tion. Lawrence Wynn (1919–95) was a distin­
guished member of UM’s English Department 
faculty from 1950 to 1981. He received the 
University’s Distinguished Teaching Award 
in 1981 and was the first faculty member to 
receive the W. Russell Smith Award for Teach­
ing Excellence. For many years Wynn was the 
English department coordinator of graduate 
studies. From 1994 to 1995, Wynn served on 
the steering committee that was instrumental 
in creating the Friends of the University Librar­
ies. Sarah J. Wynn (1912–2006) was, for many 
years, a noted pianist and piano teacher. Her 
grand piano was also donated to the Uni­
versity Libraries. In addition to her musical 
talents, Wynn was also interested in pursuing 
scholarly research. She authored the volume, 
The Emergence of the Music Critic in Late 18th 
Century London: Composers, Performers, Re­
porters (Langford and Associates, 2001). 

Acquisitions 

A collection of books and manuscripts re­
lated to William Blake have been donated 
to Victoria University Library in Toronto by 
G. E. Bently Jr. and Anne Elizabeth Kathryne 
Louise Budd Bentley. G. E. Bentley, emeritus, 
University of Toronto, is the author of numer­
ous books and articles about Blake and his 
contemporaries. Central to the gift of approxi­
mately 2,400 items are writings and illustrations 
by Blake, including Marriage of Heaven and 

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Hell (Copy M): A Song of Liberty (c. 1790), 
the Riddle Manuscript, Blake’s commercial 
engravings for such works as Young’s Night 
Thoughts (1797), Thornton’s Virgil (1821), and 
proof copies of illustrations for Job (1826). 
Also included are modern reproductions and 
facsimiles and Blake scholarship and criticism 
from 1806 to date (especially works with refer­
ence to Blake before 1863); the manuscripts 
of George Cumberland (1754–1849); books 
by John Flaxman; and books before 1835, 
especially illustrated books. 

Woodlawn Cemetery has donated a vast 
archive of architectural designs, maps, 
photographs, mausoleum blueprints, corre­
spondence, maintenance records, and other 
historical documents spanning 140 years 
of the cemetery’s operations to Columbia 
University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts 
Library. The collection includes documenta­
tion on mausoleums and memorials designed 
by John Russell Pope; McKim, Mead, & White; 
Tiffany Studios, and other accomplished 
artists and architects. It also features docu­
ments related to memorials for many of the 
prominent figures in jazz, theater, literature, 
business, and politics who are buried on the 
cemetery’s 400 acres, which include Duke 
Ellington, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, 
W. C. Handy, Milt Jackson, Joseph Pullitzer, 
William Whitney, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 
Woolworths, the Belmonts, and the Juilliards. 
Lot owners at Woodlawn have always been 
required to provide designs for memorials 
in advance, so the cemetery can assess their 
appropriateness and maintenance feasibility. 
These designs, records, and other materials 
were kept in the cemetery’s downtown offi ce 
until it was closed in 1982; for more than 20 
years, the records were kept in boxes and fi le 
cabinets located in various storage areas on 
the cemetery grounds. Because of the volume 
of documents, it will take approximately fi ve 
years for the collection to be completely 
processed and cataloged. 

The personal papers of former New Jersey 
Governor Brendan T. Byrne have been do­

nated to Rutgers University Libraries’ Special 
Collections and University Archives. The 
archive spans Byrne’s life, including his eight 
years as governor. From service as a B­17 
navigator in the European Theater of World 
War II to the halls of Harvard Law; from one 
side of the bench as prosecutor to the other 
as judge; from the statehouse as governor to 
the courthouse as private lawyer, every stage 
of Brendan Byrne’s career is represented. Cor­
respondence, news clippings, photographs, 
and other documents shed light not only on 
New Jersey, but issues facing the entire nation. 
Memoranda speak of the vulgarity of Lenny 
Bruce, news clippings tell of the Newark riots, 
and the striking down of New Jersey’s death 
penalty. Campaign literature extols candidate 
Byrne as the “Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought.” 
Editorial cartoons by Bill Canfield tell of By­
rne’s battle for an income tax and the Meadow­
lands sports complex. The collection includes 
a rich photograph collection that weaves to­
gether a story of Byrne’s life. Beginning from 
early childhood, the photographs most aptly 
highlight the triumphs of Byrne’s time in the 
statehouse, including his two inaugurals, the 
defeat of the proposed dam at Tocks Island, 
the legalization of casino gambling, and the 
preservation of the Pinelands. 

Robert DeNiro has donated his collection of 
film­related materials to the Harry Ransom 
Center. With materials from the late 1960s to 
the present, the archive includes annotated 
scripts, notes, research materials, and an 
extensive collection of the costumes De Niro 
wore in his films. The paper portion of the 
collection, more than 100 boxes, has con­
siderable research value. It includes scripts 
and books with handwritten notations, 
correspondence with film notables such as 
Martin Scorsese and Elia Kazan, background 
research and the notebooks De Niro kept of 
his films, all showing the evolution from text 
to moving image. The costume portion of 
the collection also includes more than 3,000 
individual costume items, props from many 
of De Niro’s films, and a full body cast used 
in the 1994 production of Frankenstein. 

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