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Colby College Waterville/Maine 04901 (italicized) Earl Smith Director, News Burean (italicized) Office 873-1131 ext. 281 Home 872-5242 Area Code 207

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sent July 16, 1968

WATERVILLE, Maine --- On exhibit in Miller Library at Colby College here are selections from the Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters. Initiated by Bernard W. Porter, Colby '32, the collection, which he has given to the college, is comprised of avant-garde books and contemporary presses.

Consulting physicist, world traveller, author, and artist, Porter has endeavored to extend the principles of physics into the humanities. Included in the exhibit are his autobiography, "I've Left," and a biography by James Schovill, "The Roaring Market and the Silent Tomb."

Also on display are examples of books, "non-books and magazines which Porter has written, edited, published, and illustrated; some of his letters and manuscripts; and a sampling of first editions inscribed for Porter by Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Anais Nin and others among his friends of the avant-garde.

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