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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

2003

Martha Stelzl diary, the record of a Chautauqua peformer on tour to the West in 1914.
10/2003

Meredith Willson, typed letter signed, 1966: "Never bet on musicals!"
9/2003

A Short Sketch of the Life of Miss Lulu Aggie, Detailing the Manner in which She Was Tattooed. New York: New York Popular Publishing Co., [1890-1900].
8/2003

A Mauchline Binding for William Wordsworth. Poems. circa 1875.
8/2003

John Leggett Papers, addendum for A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan.
7/2003

Marion Ballou Fisk Papers, Chautauqua "lecturer - cartoonist - entertainer".
7/2003

Warren B. Smith Papers, an Iowa Author.

John C. Brown, Civil War Diary and photographs.
6/2003

Roxburghe Club, Photographs of members of the Club in 1892.
5/2003

Charles R. Clark, correspondence to an Iowa schoolteacher.
4/2003

David W. Starr notebook kept during International Geophysical Year Working Committee meetins, 1957 -- precursor to discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts.
3/2003

Seki Yoshikuni, Edo Tokyo Kamusuki Shiko (Tokyo, 1943), an history of Japanese papermaking.
2/2003

See Gifts and Acquisitions in 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999