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By far the most important additions to the Library have been in the enrichment of its manuscript collections. Mr. Joseph Keppler's gift of a portion of his Iroquois Papers, totalling 2,284 items in all categories, included 1,134 letters written through a period of 44 years mostly from Indians on the Cattaraugus, Tonawanda and Onondaga Reservations in New York State. These constitute a record of the lives of these people and their neighbors that probably would not be considered of enough general importance to appear in print; but the writers have, quite unconsciously, written a personal history of their people covering almost half a century. Another important acquisition by deposit are the Hayt-Arnold Papers, 25 items, deposited by Mr. Thomas Roberts; and our purchase of 107 items of Passamaquoddy manuscript material adds important tribal data going back to the latter part of the 18th century. 

[[underlined]] PUBLICATIONS [[/underlined]]

The printing of a new publication, Indian Notes and Monographs, Miscellaneous Series No. 53, is about completed and the monograph will appear in April 1943. 

The sale of publications amounted to $530.56, and of the two series of post cards to $44.90.