Historical News
Columbia University is preparing for
publication a new and complete
edition of the papers of Alexander
Hamilton. The editors wish to locate any
letters to or from Hamilton and any
other Hamilton documents that are
in private hands. Communications may be
addressed to Harold C. Syrett,
Executive Editor, The Papers of
Alexander Hamilton, Columbia University,
New York 27, New York.
On the editorial board are John A.
Krout, chairman, Harold C. Syrett,
executive editor, Henry Steele Commager,
Joseph H. Dorfman, Carter Good-
rich, Louis M. Hacker, Dumas Malone,
Richard B. Morris, Allan Nevins,
and Robert L. Schuyler.
The editors of Weatherwise magazine
are asking assistance in locating
early American weather records. A canvass
is being made of all historical
and scientific depositories and college
and municipal libraries as a preliminary
to writing a history of early
meteorological activity in the United States.
Information concerning meteorological
journals, imprints on particular
storms, and weather data in personal
diaries, contemporary newspaper ac-
counts, state and local histories, and
agricultural periodicals prior to 1870 is
sought. Such information should be
addressed to David M. Ludlum, Editor,
Weatherwise, Box 216, Princeton, New Jersey.
The Ohio Academy of History held its
fall meeting at Ohio University,
Athens, on October 21-22, with about
forty-five members in attendance.
Carl G. Gustavson was chairman of the
committee on local arrangements.
He was assisted by A. T. Volwiler, O. D.
Morrison, Frederick Kershner, and
Charles Mayes.
The American Jewish Archives has
recently acquired a collection of the
Minis family papers, consisting of
family correspondence from 1835 to 1870.
The Minis family was the first Jewish
family of Georgia, having settled in
that state in 1733.
Irwin Abrams, chairman of the department
of history at Antioch College,