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Earl Smith , Director, News Bureau

FOR IMM EDIATE RELEASE Sent July 16, 1968

Office 873-1131 ext 281 Home 8 72-524 2 Area Code 207

WATERVILLE, Maine --- On exhibit in Miller Library at Colby College here are selectio ns from the Bern Porter Collecti on of Contemp orary Letters .

Initiate d by

Bernard W. Porter, Colby '32, the collecti on,whic h he has given to the college , is comprise d of avant-ga rde books and contemp orary presses . Consulti ng physici st, world travelle r, author, and. artist, Porter has endeavo red to extend the princip les of physics into the humanit ies. his

autobiog raphy,

Included in the exhibit are

"I've Left, " and a biograph y by James

Schovil l, "The Roaring M arket and the Silent Tomb." ........

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Also on display are examples of books, "non-boo ks and magazin es which Porter has written , edited, publishe d, and illustra ted; some of his letters and manuscr ipts; and a sampling of first editions inscribe d for Porter by Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen , Anais Nin and others among his friends of the avant-ga rde.

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