the Southern Folklore Collection often
are classified simply as “priceless,” but
most of them are appraised in dollar
terms, and they counted toward the Carolina First total. The UNC libraries met a
$36 million goal. It included an $800,000
unrestricted fund in honor of Joe Hewitt,
former director of the academic affairs
libraries, that is as valuable as rare books
because it enables the libraries to care for
materials that otherwise have to stay
locked up and unused.
It included a surprise $1.2 million
bequest from a 1954 alumnus who had
been giving the libraries $175 a year —
little is known about him, said Michele
Fletcher ’ 78, director of development for
the libraries. Gifts to the libraries came in
the form of matchless troves and of the
money to buy them.
UNC will receive about 28 rare copies,
mostly first editions, of James Joyce’s
works. Ulysses, Dubliners and a copy of the
play Exiles inscribed by Joyce to Ezra
Pound already are in hand. The books
were donated by Jim ’ 48 and Mary Patton
of Tucson; Jim Patton majored in English.
“We will have a virtually complete
collection of the major work in first editions,” said Charles McNamara ’ 95
(MSW), curator of rare books. Richard
Szary, associate university librarian,
pointed out that such editions are more
than just an old copy of a book. Over
time in successive editions, he said,
authors and publishers make changes.
Having the original enables one to trace
the evolution of the work.
Andre Savine amassed tens of thousands of rare books and documents of
Russian culture in his bookstore in Paris.
They include accounts of the defeated
Russian White Army, literature of all
genres and archival materials from the
Russian publishing industry. Considered
remarkable for its size and range among
post-revolution materials that are scattered
around the world, the Savine collection
was bought in 2002 with a gift from Van
’ 54 and Kay Weatherspoon of Charlotte.
Savine, a professional bibliographer,
kept meticulous records of the things he
collected. Hugh Morton, not so much.
Hull held up a box of evidence that
Morton had tried his hand at filing and
sorting some shots from the 1940s. “But
that didn’t last,” she said. “I think I can do
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