Noteworthy Gifts and Acquisitions

19th Century Mexican Recetario

A Mexican cookery manuscript written on woven paper. The collection includes more than 280 recipes, notably for dishes that have their origins in Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas and Oaxaca.

Archive of Poet Gloria Frym

Born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, poet Gloria Frym studied writing with Robert Creeley at the University of New Mexico and later moved to San Francisco to teach creative writing at the New College of California. Frym has taught creative writing in the San Francisco county jail system, at the California College of the Arts, Western Connecticut State University and the Naropa Institute. The papers (2007-2023) contain correspondence with colleagues and family members; manuscript drafts for published collected works, poems, and prose works; notebooks (1973-2005); teaching materials; biographical materials; and a video recording of a Frym reading.

Six Mois à Travers l’Océanie by J. Halligan

This book describes a French voyage from Tahiti to Australia in 1848, intended to aid missionaries and whalers scattered among the different archipelagos. A chapter is devoted to the mutiny on the Bounty.

On Decoration for the Tea Ceremony According to the Ogasawara School

A painted manuscript scroll created between 1780-1850 depicting 21 different layouts for the Japanese tea ceremony according to the Ogasawara School (pictured below). Illustrations include tea bowls and other equipment used to prepare and serve tea, tables, side dishes and decorations of the tea room.