Historical News
THE RUTHERFORD B. HAYES LIBRARY has recently published in mimeo-
graph form a twenty-page annual report
of the director of research,
Watt P. Marchman. He reports the
addition of more than a thousand
books in the library's field of interest
and several hundred manuscript
items. Included in the latter are a veto
message of President Hayes,
with notations in his own hand, a
collection of articles about Hayes by
Frank G. Carpenter, and a William Cullen
Bryant letter.
A committee of the Association of
Methodist Theological Schools is
seeking information on the location of
unpublished materials, particularly
autograph letters and journals, from the
hands of leaders of the early
and middle periods of Methodist history
in America, especially Jesse
Lee, Orange Scott, Ezekiel Cooper,
Frederick Stier, Nicholas Snethen,
John Emory, William McKendree, William
Capers, and Joshua Soule.
The information is being gathered in
order to have the materials micro-
filmed and thus made available to
students of Methodist history. Fur-
ther information may be obtained by
writing Dr. Richard M. Cameron,
P.O. Box 166, Concord, Massachusetts.
Louis Leonard Tucker, associate director
of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, reports
that the society has acquired a
collection of family papers, including
diaries, of General Andrew Hick-
enlooper, a Civil War officer and
president of the Cincinnati Gas and
Electric Company. The period covered is
1858-1910.
The society has recently published The
Census of Cincinnati, Ohio,
1817, and Hamilton County Voters'
Lists for 1798 and 1799, edited by
Marie Dickore.
The April and October 1961 issues of American
Jewish Archives will
be devoted to the Civil War, with
particular emphasis on the part played
by Jews of both the North and the South.