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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

Kent State University Libraries and Media 
Services has received a gift of more than 
$943,000 from the recently deceased Victoria 
C. T. Read and the late Gerald H. Read. Their 
gift will benefi t the processing, housing, and 
accessibility of the archival collection of the 
Comparative and International Education 
Society (CIES), an organization cofounded 
by Gerald Read in 1956. CIES has as its goal 
“to foster cross­cultural understanding, schol­
arship, academic achievement and societal 
development through the international study 
of educational ideas, systems, and practices.” 
This bequest will establish the Gerald H. and 
Victoria C. T. Read Archival Assistantship to 
provide future archivists with real­world train­
ing in the administration of archival materials. 
It will also make it possible to renovate the 
tenth floor of the University Library to expand 
the space available to its Department of Spe­
cial Collections and Archives. Plans for the 
expansion will also provide for a dedicated 
instructional space for Special Collections 
and Archives’ librarians to provide students 
with opportunities for hands­on exploration 
of rare books and archival materials. 

Acquisitions 

Best­selling novelist Peter Straub has do­
nated his papers to New York University’s 
Fales Collection. The archive includes all 
of Straub’s published works represented in 
original notebooks, in­progress manuscripts, 
typescript drafts, galleys, and proofs, as well 
as manuscripts and typescripts of several 
unpublished works; Straub’s vast personal 
correspondence with such fellow writers as 
Brad Morrow, Ann Lauterbach, and Stephen 
King; and personal notebooks, diaries, and 

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photographs. The Straub Papers also include 
complete typescript drafts of works by other 
writers, including King, Morrow, Poppy Z. 
Brite and others, often with Straub’s manu­
script comments. Straub, who received a 
lifetime achievement award from the Horror 
Writers Association (HWA) in 2006, has seen 
seven of his books win the HWA Bram Stoker 
Award, has won two World Fantasy Awards, 
and was named an HWA Grand Master in 
1998. His blockbuster bestseller Ghost Story, 
the result of his study of the history of Gothic 
literature, was made into a major motion 
picture in 1981, starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn 
Douglas, and Patricia Neal. He coauthored 
two novels with Stephen King—The Talisman 
and Black House. His 17 novels include the 
bestsellers Shadowlands, Floating Dragon, 
The Throat, The Hellfi re Club, and Mr. X. He 
is also the author of several volumes of poetry 
and recently edited H.P. Lovecraft: Tales for 
Library of America. 

A secret wartime letter from General George 
Washington to his chief spymaster has been 
acquired by Stony Brook University for 
$96,000 at auction at Christie’s in Manhattan. 
The purchase was made possible through pri­
vate and public funding. Written from “Head 
Quarters Westpoint” on September 24, 1779, 
the missive to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, the 
Revolutionary Army’s spymaster, focuses on 
the activities of Robert Townsend, another 
secret agent, from Oyster Bay, Long Island. 
The letter, signed as Commander in Chief by 
Washington, refers to Townsend by his code 
name, Culper Jr., and refers to techniques 
used in the spying, including invisible ink. 
Special Collections of the University Libraries 
is the custodian of the letter. The document 
was transferred in December to the Center 
for Conservation for Art and Historic Artifacts 
in Philadelphia for preservation treatment. A 
committee comprised of university faculty and 
community members is planning a scholarly 
conference (to be held October 2007) and 

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programs for primary and secondary school 
students to highlight Long Island’s signifi cance 
during the Revolutionary War. 

A collection of rare paper money from the 
Mexican Revolution has been donated to 
the West Texas Collection at Angelo State 
University by a Dallas collector and his wife. 
Elmer and Diane Powell have given the 676 
individual pieces of money to the West Texas 
Collection. The gift includes paper currency 
printed between 1910 and 1917 during the 
turbulent years of the Mexican Revolution. 
The collection includes money printed 
under the authority of Pancho Villa, Lucio 
Blanco, Alvaro Obregon, Louis Caballero, and 
Emilianao Zapata from El Banco Revoluciona­
rio de Guerrero. As the federal forces would 
retake a town or area, many of the bills would 
be overprinted with a validation stamp to show 
that the currency was legal tender under the 
current authorities. Many items in the collec­
tion are stamped several times. Because of 

revolution­era shortages, any type of paper 
such as old ledger pages or even oil cloth or 
linen from lamp shades would be used to print 
money. If it was paper and the ink would not 
run off, it was used to print money. 

A collection of political papers have been 
added to the New York State Modern Politi­
cal Archive at the University at Albany­State 
University of New York. The collection, 
received from Syracuse University Libraries, 
includes the papers of 22 former New York 
Congressional members and 41 legislators 
who served in the New York State Legislature. 
The acquisition was completed to strengthen 
scholarly research and to support the long­
term preservation and access to New York’s 
political history by placing the materials at the 
University at Albany Libraries’ premier political 
archive, which includes more than 300 collec­
tions from advocacy groups, political activists, 
and legislators integral to New York State’s 
public policy. 

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