Eudora Welty works acquired by university

   The Princeton University Library has acquired a collection of the works of Southern writer Eudora Welty.
   The acquisition was made using money from the Richard Ludwig Endowment.
   Ms. Welty received an honorary doctorate from Princeton in 1988 and served as the first Belknap Visitor in the Humanities in April 1985. The collection of her works includes more than 180 items ranging from first editions of her novels and short stories to drawings for her high school yearbook.
   Ms. Welty spent most of her life in Jackson, Miss. The author of "The Robber Bridegroom," "Losing Battles," "The Optimist’s Daughter" and her autobiography, "One Writer’s Beginning," died in July 2001 at age 92.
   The collection joins the library’s holdings of writers from the South, a program of collecting begun in the 1930s by the library and the Department of English. Over the years, the program has added collections of manuscripts and books by William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon.
   The endowment was set up in 2001 by Michael Spence, a 1966 Princeton graduate and a winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, and his wife, Monica. It honors Mr. Spence’s mentor at Princeton, Richard M. Ludwig, professor of English emeritus and former chairman of the Program in American Studies, who died April 28.
   The Welty collection is the second major acquisition by the library through the Spence gift. The first was a collection of the correspondence of William Ewart Gladstone, who served as the four-time British prime minister between 1869 and 1894.