Motion Picture Classics

The library film collection has been expanded by a gift from Homer Vaughn Hervey, '58BSS, '67MA, of eleven American and English motion picture films, including For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Last Picture Show, Sunset Boulevard, and The Wild Bunch. These fine films are available for use in the audiovisual rooms of the library.

Rouault Print

The library's art collection has been enriched by a gift from Leonard Scheller of an original print of Georges Rouault's Miserere series entitled "Winter leper of the earth." It will be placed in the fourth floor foyer of the library where it can be enjoyed by thousands of students and faculty who go through this busy area each day. Several years ago Mr. Scheller donated to Georgetown two other prints in this much admired series. These two prints are hanging in the Provost's office.

Nicholas Joost

Georgetown is pleased to receive from Mrs. Nicholas Joost a collection of books on modern American literature from the library of her late husband, Professor Nicholas Joost, '38BSS, who earned graduate degrees at the University of North Carolina before embarking on a distinguished academic and literary career which included being an editor of Poetry and consultant to the Bollingen Foundation, along with teaching and writing. At his retirement in 1978, Dr. Joost was professor of English at Southern Illinois University, where he had served as an editor of Papers on Language and Literature. This collection includes first editions of Saul Bellow, Ezra Pound and John Wain. It also includes material on The Dial, a journal about which Dr. Joost wrote two books. He also wrote Ernest Hemingway and the Little Magazines: The Paris Years, and articles on Oscar Wilde and Marianne Moore.

Edwin M. Stanton Letter Regarding Abraham Lincoln

Francis C. Brown, Jr., a Georgetown Regent Emeritus, has given to the library a curious letter written by Secretary of War Stanton to Senator Solomon Foot and representative Elihu B. Washburne on December 19, 1865, in reply to their invitation to Stanton to deliver an address at a Congressional ceremony honoring Lincoln. Stanton declined to speak "for reasons dwelling in my own heart and needless to be expressed." This letter may add to the mystery of a possible link between Stanton and the Lincoln assassins.

Christopher Fry

An autographed letter by playwright Christopher Fry about his adaptation of a Jean Anouilh play was given to the library by Marie Price. Fry writes: "We were well into rehearsals without finding a title… and then in the middle of rehearsal 'Ring Round the Moon' came into my mind at the 11th and-a-half hour."

Bishop Ullathorne's Papers

The library has acquired an important portion of the papers of Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia in the early 19th century and later Bishop of Birmingham, England. The collection consists of manuscripts and correspondence, dating between 1848 and 1883, with letters both to and from Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Henry Cardinal Manning, Paul Cardinal Cullen, and others.