The Latest In Noteworthy Gifts and Acquisitions

Sally T. WongAvery Collection

In February 2022, we announced that UC San Diego alumna and UC San Diego Foundation trustee Sally T. WongAvery ’75 donated $10 million through the Avery-Tsui Foundation to support East Asia collections, research and scholarly activities at the UC San Diego Library. The gift, which established the Sally T. WongAvery Fund for East Asian Collections and the Natasha Wong Endowment for East Asian Collections, will ensure that East Asia scholarship and collections are a key part of the UC San Diego Library in perpetuity.

Letters From the Dupetit-Thouars

A collection of illustrated letters from the 1842-45 circumnavigation by the French naval ship Dupetit-Thouars, written by Charles Hulot, one of the officers on the expedition, provides an eyewitness account of a time of French colonial expansion in the Pacific.

Letters From the Dupetit-Thouars

Gato Negro Ediciones

The Library’s collection of more than 140 publications from Gato Negro Ediciones, an independent publisher based in Mexico City, is one of the largest of its kind among academic libraries. Printed in English or Spanish (and occasionally bilingual), the publications cover topics such as the arts, cultural theory, literature, politics, social movements and more.

Gato Negro Ediciones

Letters Between Schneider and Pinter

Prolific theatre director Alan Schneider, who was responsible for more than 100 productions over the course of his career, taught at The Juilliard School and UC San Diego. Many of those plays were written by Nobelist playwright Harold Pinter. The Library is now home to 90 letters written between the two.

Letters Between Schneider and Pinter

Documenting John “Mad Jack” Percival

What led to the bloodiest mutiny in American maritime history? A collection of letters and documents on the activities of U.S. Naval Officer John “Mad Jack” Percival relates to the 1824 rebellion on the whaleship Globe.