Among Friends

Recent Gifts to the Library


The Brown University Library is grateful for the many gifts that add to the research materials available to students and faculty. While it is not possible to list every gift here, we have selected a small sampling of gifts to share with our readers.

Gifts to the Brown University Library are greatly appreciated. If you are interested in making a gift to the Library, please contact Patricia Putney, Head of Acquisitions, at (401) 863-2954 or via e-mail at Patricia_Putney@ Brown.edu. Thank you for your continued support!


937 volumes of Italian literature from the library of the donor's sister, Lynn Gunzberg, former Associate Dean of the College and Professor of Italian Studies.
Gift of Guy Gunzberg

Gifts in support of the Library's subscrip-tion to MD Consult -- a service that provides medical faculty and students with online access to scores of medical reference books, journals, clinical practice guidelines, patient education materials and comprehensive drug information.
Gifts of Dick Carolan, '58

21 artists' books from a variety of small and fine presses.
Gift of Sarah Peter, p '04

Funds to support the purchase of facsimiles of historic music scores, selected by Professor David Josephson.
Gift of Mitchell Wolff, '78

12 oil paintings from World War II done by donor's father, Pvt. Horace T. Day.
Gift of H. Talmage Day

Medical instruments of historical value, including a microscope with bell jar, a curved horn stethoscope, 50 pairs of 19th and 20th century spectacles, and two articulated human skulls.
Gift of Dr. Sydney Brody

10 boxes of medical instruments of historic value and a Rhode Island banjo clock.
Gift of the Rhode Island Medical Society

Many memorial gifts were made in honor of W. Chesley Worthington, '23.
Gifts from multiple donors

34 volumes in the field of psychiatry.
Gift of Dr. C. Brandon Qualls

A selection of journals, mostly from the 18 th & 19 th centuries, including one bound periodical, 11 loose journal issues and nine clippings.
Gift of Eleanor Chisholm

79 books, along with broadsides, sheet music and other ephemera.
Gift of Stephen P. Gross


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