On December 15, 2004, the Review and Herald donated to CAR the rare materials from their editorial library. Merlin Burt and Jim Ford packed up the several thousand volumes and brought them to Andrews in a truck. We are in the midst of accessioning them. The collection will remain distinct as a legacy of the Review and Herald. The publishing house is to be commended for thinking of how this collection can be most effectively used by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This is perhaps the most significant transfer of Millerite and early Adventist materials since Potomac University was moved to the newly formed Andrews University some 45 years ago.

In November the Center received a significant donation of Ellen G. White rare materials from Judy Blodgett which were collected by her late husband Ralph. Ralph spent much of his adult life collecting nearly every early publication by Ellen White. Not only were we able to expand our own Ellen White holdings but this donation also enabled the main office of the Ellen G. White Estate to complete their collection of original Ellen White Testimony for the Church tracts.