36 The New-York Historical Society has received six pieces of sheet music through the James B. Wilbur Fund, as well as others through the generosity of the Misses Ferris. The Beekman Family Association has deposited here through the years important papers of this family, and these are drawing in other items. Miss Maud W. Van Rensselaer has added seventy- five letters, 1835-1877, from James W. Beekman to her grandfather, the Rev. Maunsell Van Rensselaer. And Dr. Clarence S. Brigham, for the American Antiquarian Society, sent to the Library an early surgical work which was once in the library of Gerardus Beekman (1653-1723) and which bears his autograph. It is Jacques Guillemeau's Alle de Wercken der Chirurgie . . . (Dordrecht: 1666). The New York State anthropologist, Lewis Henry Morgan, is known for his work with the Iroquois Indians. With copies of the several editions of his League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee or Iroquois, and many letters, already in hand, we were fortunate in obtaining his own presentation copy of the first (Rochester: 1851) edition of the League ... with hand-colored plates, through the Abbott- Lenox Fund, and five letters, 1844-1845, to William Allen, through the generosity of Dr. Charles L. Willmarth. To our shelves on the American Indian, we added several interesting captivities, among them an earlier edition than we previously held of the Elizabeth Hanson An Account... (London: 1787), and also the Leeds [c. 1815]. Others: Affecting History of the Dreadful Distresses of Frederic Manheim's Family ... (Philadelphia: 1800); A Narrative of the Sufferings of Massy Harbison ... (Beaver, Pa: 1836); Joseph Pritts' anonymous Abentheuerliche Ereignisse aus dem Leben der Ersten Ansiedler . . . (Chambers- burg :i839); and the same (Lancaster: 1842); T^t? Captives of Abb's Valley .. .By a Son of Mary Moore [James Moore Brown], (Philadelphia [1854]); Fanny Kelly's Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians ... (Cincinnati: 1871); Ole T. Nystel's Lost and Found; or, Three Months with the Wild Indians . . . (Dallas: 1888); the same, second edition, with title: From Bondage to Freedom ... (Keene, Texas: 1930); and a photostatic reproduction, through the courtesy of Goodspeed's Bookshop, of