DOCUMENTARY DATA
BY BERTHA E. JOSEPHSON
Since the last summary, this department
has accomplished a
general check-up on accessioned and
unaccessioned manuscript
materials with an interfiling of
collections in the manuscript vaults
so that all collections, cataloged and
uncataloged, are now filed in
one alphabetical arrangement. Temporary
cards were made for
the uncataloged collections and these
are now in the Manuscript
Catalog. This was done to simplify
housing of collections and to
facilitate finding of materials.
In addition, cataloging of miscellaneous
manuscripts is con-
tinuing gradually, whenever the chief of
this department can find
free time from her other duties. Among
items recently cataloged
are:
Bees and Beekeeping, 12 MSS. on hives, bees, etc., presented as papers
at Ohio State University in 1925.
Coddington Letters, the nucleus of a growing collection of letters
from John Coddington of Arlington,
Virginia, to Genevieve Potts, of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, 1943--. Gift of the
recipient.
Davis, Jefferson, President, Confederate States of America, Mes-
sage to the Confederate Congress,
Richmond, Virginia, 5/2/1864. Origi-
nal ink, 10pp., legal size, watermarked,
"Joynson, 1862."
Delaware Indians Vocabulary, 30-page booklet with numerical terms
and alphabetical list of words,
handsewed on handmade paper, ink original,
4 1/4"x7".
Fairfield County, Ohio, in World War I, 5 pp., no author, no date,
pencil original.
Friends Monthly Meetings, Centre, Clinton County, Ohio--Minutes,
1829-33. 65 pieces. Gift of W. D.
Bayley, Springfield, O.
Friends Meetings, 2 letters (photostats) from Sam Potts to Jacob
Smith, 5/14/1821 and 5/30/1821--both to
St. Clairsville, Belmont County,
Ohio. Also a list of Meetings West of
Ohio, from 1802-1828, prepared by
Clarkson Butterworth, in 1900
(photostat).
Friends Meetings, Germantown, Pennsylvania, Protest against Slav-
ery, 1868. Facsimile and printed copy. 3
pp., 10"x 16".
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Medical Society of Ohio, Twelfth, Marietta, Ohio, Notes on Early
Meetings, 1824-26 and Extract from
By-Laws. Legal size on handmade
paper, ink original, signatures of S. P.
Hildreth, John Cotton, Werner
Bowen, Fenn Robinson, George N. Gilbert,
Cyrus Spooner, George Bowen,
James S. Hibbard, Morris Germain,
Columbus Bierce and others.
Senter, Dr. Mahala Pike, Medical Address, n.d., 16 pp., 7 3/4" x 9
3/4".
Mrs. Senter came to Columbus, Ohio, from
Vermont and died in 1879.
Gift of Rev. H. J. Simpson, Flint,
Michigan
Siebert, Wilbur H., "Underground Railroad," a 34-page paper
written
in 1898. Original ink. Gift of the
author.
Wyandot Indian Jail, by Emil Schlup, 6 pp., pencil original, no date.
Among miscellaneous letters in the
process of being cata-
loged are two of especial interest: One
from James Liggot, Shad-
rach Bond, George Atchison and James
Lemen to Winthrop Sar-
gent, from Cahokia, September 28, 1797,
on 4 pages of legal size
handmade paper and dealing with court
sessions in St. Clair
County; and the other from John Cleves
Symmes and G. Turner,
to Winthrop Sargent, from Vincennes,
July 10, 1790, dealing with
length and time of court sessions. Nine
additional letters were
added to the Duncan McArthur Collection,
8 of which bear
McArthur's signature. The letters are
for the years 1799, 1814,
1823, 1831 and 1832. Five pieces were
added to the William
Henry Smith Collection and these include
an official announce-
ment of the death of Governor John
Brough, August 29, 1865; a
resolution about bounties to Civil War
veterans, January 25, 1866;
a resolution about the 14th Amendment to
the United States Con-
stitution, January 15, 1867; a
resolution about portraits of Ohio's
governors, March 16, 1867; and an appeal
for contributions to
the Ohio Monument Fund for a Lincoln
memorial, undated.
In April, the head of this department
combined attendance at
the St. Louis meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Historical Asso-
ciation with a visit to Springfield,
Illinois, where she inspected the
splendid facilities at the Illinois
State Archives and also the excel-
lent arrangements of the Illinois State
Historical Society Library.
A complete report of her findings is on
file for the benefit of such
post-war plans as Ohio may see fit to
undertake in emulation of
her sister state.