OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
DR. DANIEL DRAKE'S MEMOIR OF THE MIAMI
COUNTRY, 1779-1794
The April-September number of the Quarterly
Pub-
lications of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of
Ohio prints a very interesting and historically valuable
monograph from an unpublished
manuscript in the li-
brary of the Wisconsin Historical
Society. It is edited
by Dr. Beverly W. Bond, Jr., associate
professor of his-
tory in the University of Cincinnati.
We quote briefly
from his informing explanatory note:
The occasion for writing the Memoir was
a celebration
that was planned at Cincinnati for
December 26, 1838, in honor
of the semi-centennial of the first
permanent settlement all the
present site of the city. A committee,
appointed by the city
council to make arrangements, invited
old pioneers to come as
guests of the city for the day, and
arranged an elaborate pro-
gram, including literary exercises at
the First Presbyterian
Church. Here "the most interesting
and important feature"
of the program was to be the
"historical discourse" by Doctor
Daniel Drake, and it is the manuscript
of this address which
is being published in the present
volume. To aid Doctor
Drake in securing material for his
address, the committee is-
sued a circular letter, asking for
historical facts and anecdotes
relating to the pioneer history of the
settlements in the Miami
country. The response to this appeal was
widespread, and
many of the letters that were received
have been preserved in
the Drake Papers.
(641)
Vol. XXXII--41.