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Recent Gifts and Acquisitions  A Selected List of Unusual Books and Manuscripts Gratefully Received by THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES and located in the Department of Special Collections 2002 Colloquia et Dictionariolum octo linguarum. Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz Cloppenberg, 1631. 10/2002 Circus (Shanty Bay Press, 2002). Five texts on the circus with pochoir illustrations by Walter Bachinski 10/2002 Charles Thomas Ackley Letters to His Wife during service in the Civil War, 1864-1865 8/2002 Books from the Library of Charlotte M. Smith, the gift of Charlotte Ann Smith 4/2002 Robert Metzler Diaries, 1975 - 1977 for the television series, "Columbo" starring Peter Falk 3/2002 Leigh Hunt to "Dear Sir," Vale of Heath, Hampstead, 6 October, 1815, an autograph letter signed 1/2002 2nd Lt. John W. Wright, Company "B", 10th Iowa Battalion,attempts to collect back pay for a period during which he was a prisoner of the Confereracy 11/2002 See Gifts and Acquisitions in 2003, 2001, 2000, 1999