In the years since the Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair came to Penn there have been a number of gifts and acquisitions that have expanded the collection and increased the Library’s holdings in this area.

The largest gift to the collection is that of Dr. Jean-Max Guieu, a Dreyfus and Zola scholar at Georgetown University, and includes not only his definitive bibliography of the Dreyfus Affair, but also books and newspapers, such as Le Petit Journal Illustré, many of which are contemporary with the Affair. Other gifts have come from Yaël Ruiz, great-granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus, and Penn Professor David Stern.

Among the recent acquisitions on the Dreyfus Affair are a group of monographs previously owned by the Zola family; a decade of the periodical published by the anti-Dreyfusard group L'Action Française; the complete run of the Dreyfusard periodical Le Sifflet; select issues of La Fronde, the first major feminist newspaper in France; Dreyfus-related issues of other periodicals, including La Libre Parole, La Libre Parole Illustrée, and La Vie Illustrée; and a small collection of correspondence sent to Captain Martin Freystätter, a judge at the first court martial in 1894, during and after the 1899 Rennes retrial, at which he was a witness for the defense.