In connection with a lecture by William Lyon Phelps, A.M. '91, to be given this afternoon in Baker Library of the Business School, the present exhibit of the Treasure Room of Widener Library has been arranged. The lecture, which is not open to the public, but is part of a meeting of the Massachusetts Library Club, has for its subject "Three Living American Poets," The poets to be treated by Professor Phelps, who is professor of English Literature at Yale University, are Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. A group of their letters and first editions together with some books of Professor Phelps's constitute the exhibit in the Treasure Room.

The collection includes three copies of Robinson's first book of poems, "The Torrent and the Night Before," presented respectively to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles W. Eliot '53, and Charles Eliot Norton '46. The author attended Harvard College from 1891 to 1893, and as the poems were written between 1889 and 1896, some were written while he was still a student here. There are also some first editions of other books by Robinson which he presented to Amy Lowell and a few letters which he wrote her in his small, neat, and unreadable hand.

Robert Frost is also represented by autographed copies given to Miss Lowell, one of which is inscribed, "For Amy Lowell from Robert Frost for one regular rhymster from another;" and a later book has the autograph; "For Amy Lowell, immortal author of many poems, from her friend and admirer, Robert Frost." Frost attended the University from 1897 to 1899 and is now living at Shaftsbury, Vt.

There is also in the collection a few impromptu poems and drawings which Vachel Lindsay gave to Miss Lowell. One poem, especially, entitled "Sunrise on Easter Day," is illustrated with pen and ink sketches of a rabbit. In the drawings the letters AMY LOWELL are found as in a puzzle.