Ohio History Journal

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Miscellaneous Letters. 630 letters written within the years

1838-1920. Autographs of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver

Wendell Holmes, William Davis Gallagher (81 letters, 1840-

1892), Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Jacob Dolson

Cox, James E. Murdock, Charles T. Webber, Frank Henry

Howe, Lucius A. Hine, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry George,

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (21 letters, 1881-1920), Tracy

Peck, Charles F. Richardson, Edward Dowden, Thomas Hutchin-

son, William Watson, John Uri Lloyd (14 letters, 1898-1916),

Charles Frederick Goss, John Brown Jewett, John James Piatt

(52 letters, 1874-1910), Sarah Piatt (10 letters, 1899-1914),

William Dean Howells (9 letters, 1898-1914), Edith Matilda

Thomas, and James Whitcomb Riley.⁴

Pictures (Boxes 17-20, and 73):

Portraits of Ohio literary men and women, pictures of his-

toric spots, and miscellaneous pictures. 238 pictures including

unusually good portraits of Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Paul

Laurence Dunbar, William Davis Gallagher, William Dean How-

ells, Coates Kinney, William  Haines Lytle, Edith Matilda

Thomas, Addison Peale Russell, John James Piatt, Sarah Piatt,

and William Henry Venable.

Literary Manuscripts (Boxes 21-34):

Coates Kinney Manuscripts:

Apparitions. An unpublished poem. Author's typewritten

copy, with carbon copy. 56 pages (7 by 8 1/2 inches). (Box 25)

Egypt. Author's typewritten copy, with carbon copy, 3 pages

(7 by 8 1/2 inches). (Box 25)

Mists of Fire: A Trilogy. Original copy, in author's hand-

writing, of "A Dream of Life," later called "Pessim and Optim,"

25 pages (5 by 8 inches); and "Poems by Coates Kinney," in-

cluding "Kapnisma" and "A Keen Swift Spirit," 71+38 pages

4 Autographs of many prominent people in addition to those listed are included

in this portion of the collection.

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(5 by 8 inches); including a two-page "beginning of 'Pessim and

Optim.'" (Box 22)

Poems by Coates Kinney. 150 pages, each poem paged sepa-

rately (8 by 10 1/₂ inches). Typewritten carbon copy. (Box 24)

Rain on the Roof, Innervale, Alone, Ships Coming In, Sane,

and other lyrics, in author's handwriting. (Box 24)

A Drama of Doubles. An unpublished novel. Original copy,

in author's handwriting, 530 pages (5 by 8 inches). Also a type-

written copy-- 470 pages (7 by 9 1/4 inches). (Box 21)

Unthinkable Data of Human Thought, originally called

"Calculus of Unthinkables." Original copy, in author's handwrit-

ing, 50+18 pages (6 by 9 1/2 inches); revised copy, in author's

handwriting, 104 pages (6 by 9 1/2 inches); and typewritten copy,

113 pages (6 3/4 by 8 inches). (Box 23)

The English Language and its Correct Use. 27 pages (7 by

8 inches), typewritten. Original and one carbon copy. (Box 23)

English Grammar. 15 pages (7 by 8 inches), typewritten.

Original and one carbon copy. (Box 23)

Is Poetry Dying Out? 7 pages (7 by 8 inches), typewritten.

Original and one carbon copy. (Box 23)

Definition of Poetry. 1 page (7 by 8 inches), typewritten.

Original and one carbon copy. (Box 23)

Autobiographical Notes. 27 pages (6 by 9 inches), and 120

pages (3 1/2 by 6 inches), in author's handwriting. (Box 24)

Copy for authorized complete collection of the poems of

Coates Kinney. (Box 25)

William Henry Venable Manuscripts:

Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley. Manu-

script for a revised edition of Beginnings of Literary Culture in

the Ohio Valley, in two volumes. Volume one contains 345 pages

and volume two 259 pages (8 by 10 inches). A number of clip-

pings, notes, and pamphlets, including a bound copy of Letters to

'Squire Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant [S. K.

Hoshour] are interspersed among the pages. (Boxes 26-27)

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The Utility of the Ideal. Addresses and Club Papers. Manu-

script of an unpublished book. 174 pages (7 3/4 by 10 inches)--

each essay paged separately. Typewritten sheets, mounted clip-

pings, and printed excerpts. The volume comprises: "The Utility

of the Ideal" (1870), "Evolution of the Doctor of Medicine"

(1883), "Daniel Vaughan" (1888), "The Western Literary Out-

look" (1896), "Ohio Men and the Ohio Idea" (1897), "Lebanon

Centennial Address" (1902), "Chillicothe Centennial Address"

(1903), "At Home and From Home" (1906), "An Arena of

Free Speech" (1907), "The Sword of the Spirit" (1907), "A

Square Deal" (1912), "Down South before the War," "Pursued

by Flames," "Longfellow at Nahant," "Appraising Parnassus,"

"The Ideal Commonwealth," "Fine Art in Words," "Follow the

Gleam" (1912). (Box 28)

Addison Peale Russell: His Life and Character. Memorial

Tribute. Wilmington, Ohio, July 26, 1912. 8 pages (8 by 10

inches), typewritten. (Box 29)

Alfred Holbrook: His Influence on Education. Address de-

livered at Lebanon, Ohio, August 6, 1909. 20 pages (8 by 10 1/2

inches), typewritten, with corrections in longhand. (Box 29)

A Book That Read Me. 2 pages (6 by 9 1/2 inches) of printed

sheets mounted, with corrections in longhand. (Box 29)

A Buckeye Boyhood. Pictures from the Past. 11 pages (8 by

10 inches) of printed sheets mounted, with corrections in long-

hand. (Box 29)

Christopher Columbus: A Study and Summary in Five

Parts. 10 pages (8 by 10 inches) of printed sheets mounted, with

corrections in longhand. (Box 29)

The Coming Man. Passages from a Popular Address De-

livered before Many Teacher's Institutes in the Years 1882-6.

5 pages (8 by 10 inches) of printed sheets mounted, with correc-

tions in longhand. (Box 29)

Conflict of Ideas in the Ohio Valley before the Period of the

Civil War. 21 pages (8 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches), typewritten. (Box 29)

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The Cosmic Club. 4 pages (7 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches) in author's

handwriting. (Box 32)

A Garret Window Criticism. 5 pages (8 by 10 inches) of

printed sheets mounted, with corrections in longhand. (Box 29)

The Genial Bard of Wall Street. Personal Memoranda.

4 pages (8 by 10 inches) of typewritten carbon copy. (Box 29)

George Kellam Batholomew. 2 pages (8 1/2 by 11 inches) of

typewritten carbon copy. (Box 29)

Herr Most and Matthew Arnold. A Diary in Dramatic

Form. 6 pages (8 by 10 inches), typewritten, with penciled cor-

rections in longhand. (Box 29)

In the Eighteen-Sixties. 7 pages (8 by 10 inches) in au-

thor's handwriting. Also typewritten copy--5 pages (7 1/2 by 9 1/2

inches). (Box 31)

In the Salem District. 4 pages, marked 54-57 (8 by 10

inches), of printed sheets mounted, with corrections and addi-

tions in longhand. (Box 29)

John B. Peaslee. Read at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Cin-

cinnati, Ohio, January 6, 1912. 11 pages (8 1/2 by 11 inches), type-

written. (Box 30)

Leges Conviviales. 6 pages (8 by 10 inches), typewritten.

Original and one carbon copy. (Box 31)

Think of Living. 7 pages (8 by 10 inches), typewritten

(Box 31)

Literature of the Literary Club. 7 pages (8 by 10 inches),

typewritten. (Box 31)

Our Western Whittier. 41 pages (8 by 10 1/4 inches) in au-

thor's handwriting. (Box 30)

Poetry: Its Essential Qualities. 10 pages (8 1/2 by 11 inches),

typewritten. Original and one carbon copy. (Box 31)

Notes of an Address Delivered in Universalist Church, Wal-

nut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 16, 1900. 18 pages (4 1/4

by 7 inches) in author's handwriting. (Box 31)

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Ridgeville Centennial. Notes of an address at Ridgeville,

Warren County, Ohio, on the occasion of the Ridgeville centennial

celebration, August 15, 1914. 3 pages (5 by 6 1/2 inches) in au-

thor's handwriting. (Box 31)

A Sergeant's Pocket Diary. 6 pages (8 by 10 inches), type-

written. (Box 31)

Shakespeare the Supreme. An Address to an Assemblage of

Students at Hughes High School, Cincinnati, Saturday, January

4, 1896. 3 pages (8 by 10 inches) of newspaper clippings mounted,

with corrections and additions in longhand. (Box 31)

The Sulgroves. 6 pages (8 by 10 inches), of printed sheets

mounted. (Box 31)

Personal Recollections of Thomas Buchanan Read. 13 pages

(8 1/2 by 14 inches) in author's handwriting. Also a copy of 9

pages (8 by 10 inches), marked 70 to 78, of printed sheets

mounted, containing added matter. (Box 31)

To A. P. Russell on his Eightieth Birthday, September 8,

1906. Verse. 3 pages (8 by 10 inches) in author's handwriting.

(Box 29)

A Diamond. 1 page (8 by 10 1/2 inches) in author's handwrit-

ing. (Box 29)

The Founders of Ohio. 1 page (8 by 10 1/2 inches) in author's

handwriting, dated March 28, 1906. (Box 29)

Final Victory. A sonnet. 1 page (8 by 10 1/2 inches) in au-

thor's handwriting. (Box 29)

Woman's Rights. A sonnet. 1 page (8 1/2 by 11 inches) type-

written, with clippings attached. (Box 31)

A Year in Vernon, Indiana. 4 pages (8 by 10 inches),

marked 66 to 69, of printed sheets mounted, with corrections in

longhand. (Box 31)

Learning to Keep School. An Autobiographical Sketch. 19

pages (7 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches) in author's handwriting. (Box 35)

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William Haines Lytle. 35 pages (8 by 10 inches) of type-

written carbon copy. (Box 31)

Coates Kinney. Pages from Biographical Notes by William

Henry Venable, 1904. Edited by Emerson Venable. (Box 29)

Autobiographical Notes by William Henry Venable. Written

at the Request of his Sons and Daughters. Begun June 10, 1913.

52 pages (8 1/2 by 11 inches), typewritten. Original and one car-

bon copy. (Box 35)

Other Manuscripts:

Fifty-five manuscripts, including autographs of John Green-

leaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Wendell Phillips, Horace Mann,

Otway Curry, Daniel Drake, William Davis Gallagher, Alice

Cary, John James Piatt, Sarah Piatt. Alice Williams Brotherton,

Madison Cawein, Alice Archer Sewall James, and Paul Laurence

Dunbar. (Boxes 33-34)

Notes on the Life and Writings of William Henry Venable,

by Emerson Venable. 39 pages (8 1/2 by 11 inches). Original and

one carbon copy. (Box 36)

Printed Matter (Boxes 41-66):

Coates Kinney's Books:

Keeuka and Other Poems. Published by the Author as a Pri-

vate Edition. Cincinnati, 1855. 161 pages. (Box 41)

Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real. Cincinnati, 1887. 140 pages.

(Box 25)

Mists of Fire: a Trilogy, and Some Eclogs. Chicago, Rand,

McNally and Company, 1899. 233 pages. An autographed copy

containing penciled corrections and revisions by the author.

(Box 41)

William Henry Venable's Books:

A School History of the United States. Cincinnati, Wilson,

Hinkle and Company, 1872. 247 pages. (Box 45)

The School Stage. A collection of juvenile acting plays. Cin-

cinnati, Wilson, Hinkle and Company, 1873. 234 pages. (Box 45)

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The Amateur Actor. A collection of plays for home and

school. Cincinnati, Wilson, Hinkle and Company, 1874. 288 pages.

(Box 45)

Dramas and Dramatic Scenes. Cincinnati, Van Antwerp,

Bragg and Company, 1874. 336 pages. (Loaned by Evelyn Ven-

able.) (Box 45)

June on the Miami and Other Poems. Cincinnati, Robert

Clarke and Company, 1877. 122 pages. Two copies. (Box 43)

The Teacher's Dream. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons,

1881. 34 pages. Two copies. Also two copies of unbound Cincin-

nati, McDonald and Eick, 1889, edition. (Box 45)

Melodies of the Heart, Songs of Freedom and Faith, and

Other Poems. Cincinnati, Robert Clarke and Company, 1885. 132

pages. (Box 43)

Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley. A Centennial

Sketch. Cincinnati, Ohio Valley Press, 1888. 128 pages. (Box 43)

Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley. Historical

and Biographical Sketches. Cincinnati, Robert Clarke and Com-

pany, 1891. 519 pages. (Box 43)

John Hancock, Educator. A Memoir, with Selections from

his Writings. Cincinnati, C. B. Ruggles and Company, 1892. 195

pages. (Box 43)

Let Him First Be a Man and Other Essays. Boston, Lee and

Shepard, 1894. 274 pages. (Box 43)

The Last Flight. Cincinnati, Robert Clarke and Company,

1894. 67 pages. (Box 43)

Poems of William Haines Lytle. Edited, with Memoir. Cin-

cinnati, Robert Clarke and Company, 1894. 150 pages. (Box 43)

Tales from Ohio History. Norwalk, Ohio, The Laning Print-

ing Company, 1896. 204 pages. (Box 44)

Selections from the Poems of Robert Burns. New York,

American Book Company, 1898. 96 pages. Selections from the

Poems of Lord Byron. New York, American Book Company,

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1898. 170 pages. Selections from the Poems of William Words-

worth. New York, American Book Company, 1898. 142 pages.

The three books bound in one cover. (Box 45)

Santa Claus and the Black Cat, or Who Is Your Master?

Cincinnati, William Mayo Venable, 1899. 31 pages. 4 copies.

(Box 44)

A Dream of Empire, or The House of Blennerhassett. New

York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. 344 pages. (Box 45)

Tom Tad. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. 287

pages. (Box 45)

Ohio Literary Men and Women. An Address Prepared for

the Ohio Centennial Celebration at Chillicothe, Ohio, May 20,

1903. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State Archaeological and His-

torical Society, 1903. Autographed copy. (Box 45)

Saga of the Oak and Other Poems. New York, Dodd, Mead

and Company, 1904. 150 pages. (Box 45)

Cincinnati: A Civic Ode. Read in McMicken Hall, University

of Cincinnati, on the Evening of University Alumni Day, No-

vember 22, 1907. With historical notes. Cincinnati, University of

Cincinnati, 1907. 20 pages. Two copies. Also three copies of same,

printed in University of Cincinnati Record, January, 1908.

(Box 45)

Floridian Sonnets. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1909. 43

pages. Two copies. (Box 43)

A Buckeye Boyhood. Cincinnati, Stewart and Kidd Com-

pany, 1911. 190 pages. (Box 43)

June on the Miami:An Idyl. Cincinnati, Stewart and Kidd

Company, 1912. 35 pages. Two copies. (Box 43)

The Poems of William Henry Venable, edited by Emerson

Venable. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. 240 pages.

Two copies. (Box 44)

Twenty-two poems and articles by William Henry Venable,

printed in, or reprinted from, periodicals. (Boxes 46-47)

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Other Printed Matter:

Copies of Home and School, Midland, The Ohio Educational

Monthly, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly,

containing poems and articles by William Henry Venable. (Boxes

48-52)

Forty-one programs, announcements, and handbooks of ban-

quets, meetings, and organizations. (Box 56)

Two scrapbooks left by Coates Kinney, containing editorials

and articles contributed by him to his own and other newspapers,

from January 15, 1864, to July 10, 1883. (Box 64)

Twenty newspapers containing poems and articles by or con-

cerning William Henry Venable. (Box 58)

Ten scrapbooks left by William Henry Venable. (Boxes

59-63)

A collection of books and pamphlets, chiefly representing the

work of Ohio writers. (Boxes 53-55) This collection includes:

Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, by

William Davis Gallagher. With portrait frontispiece. Cincinnati,

U. P. James, 1841. 264 pages. Autographed copy.

The Poets and Poetry of America, by Rufus W. Griswold.

Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1843. 476 pages.

Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary. Philadelphia, Moss and

Brother, 1850. 264 pages. The first published collection of the

poems of the Cary sisters.

The Female Poets of America, by Rufus W. Griswold. Phila-

delphia, Parry and McMillan, 1854. 400 pages.

Poems, by Alice Cary. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 399

pages. (This book was the property of Coates Kinney, who gave

it to William Henry Venable. Kinney reviewed the poems of

Alice Cary in The Genius of the West, June, 1855. This is the

copy he read for that purpose.)

The Poets and Poetry of the West: with Biographical and

Critical Notices, by William T. Coggeshall. Columbus, Follett,

Foster and Company, 1860. 688 pages.

Half Tints: Table d'Hote and Drawing-Room, by Addison

Peale Russell. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1867. 232

pages. The author's first book. Autographed copy.

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Library Notes, by Addison Peale Russell. New York, Hurd

and Houghton, 1875. 401 pages. Autographed copy.

Thomas Corwin, A Sketch, by Addison Peale Russell. Cin-

cinnati, Robert Clarke and Company, 1881. 128 pages. Auto-

graphed copy.

Sub-Coelum. A Sky-Built Human World, by Addison Peale

Russell. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. 267

pages. Autographed copy.

The Union of American Poetry and Art, Edited by John

James Piatt. Parts 11, 12, 13, and 14. Cincinnati, W. E. Dibble

and Company, 1880. Pages 325-448.

Miami Woods, A Golden Wedding, and Other Poems, by

William Davis Gallagher. Cincinnati, Robert Clarke and Com-

pany, 1881. 264 pages. Autographed copy.

Poems of Florus B. Plimpton. Illustrated. Cincinnati, Mrs.

F. B. Plimpton, 1886. 190 pages.

W. A. W. A Souvenir of the Fourth Annual Convention, at

Warsaw, Indiana, July 9, 10, 11, and 12, 1889, by L. May

Wheeler and Mary E. Cardwill. Richmond, Indiana, M. Culla-

ton and Company, 1890. 244 pages.

W. A. W. Souvenir No. 2. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual

Convention, at Eagle Lake, Indiana, July 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1890,

Edited by Mary E. Cardwill. New Castle, Indiana, Western As-

sociation of Writers, 1891. 239 pages. 2 copies.

Western Association of Writers. Sayings and Doings of the

Sixth General Meeting Held at Eagle Lake, Warsaw, Indiana,

July 6 to 10, 1891. Cincinnati, Western Association of Writers,

1892. 300 pages.

The Hesperian Tree. An Annual of the Ohio Valley--1900,

Edited by John James Piatt. Cincinnati, George C. Shaw, 1900.

436 pages.

The Hesperian Tree. An Annual of the Ohio Valley--1903,

Edited by John James Piatt. Columbus, S. F. Harriman, 1903.

460 pages.

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History of Hamilton County, Ohio. Compiled by Henry A.

Ford and Mrs. Kate B. Ford. Cleveland, L. A. Williams and

Company, 1881. 432 pages.

History of Cincinnati, Ohio. Compiled by Henry A. Ford

and Mrs. Kate B. Ford. Cleveland, L. A. Williams and Company,

1881. 534 pages.

Drugs and Medicines of North America.       Volume I,

Ranunculaceae, by J. U. Lloyd and C. G. Lloyd. Cincinnati, J. U.

and C. G. Lloyd, 1884-85. 304 pages. Autographed by C. G. Lloyd.

Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary among

the Indians of Ohio, Edited by Eugene F. Bliss. Cincinnati, Rob-

ert Clarke and Company, 1885. 2 volumes. 464 and 535 pages.

In Memory of Elizabeth Haven Appleton Is Printed This

Selection from her Lectures, by [Eugene F. Bliss]. Cincinnati,

Robert Clarke and Company, 1891. 267 pages. Autographed copy.

Dr. Saugrain's Relation of his Voyage Down the Ohio River

from Pittsburgh to the Falls in 1788, by Eugene F. Bliss. Re-

printed from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian So-

ciety, at the Semiannual Meeting, April, 1897. Worcester, Massa-

chusetts, Press of Charles Hamilton, 1897. 14 pages. Autographed

copy.

Jefferson and Burr: A Paper Read before the Tuesday Club,

Richmond, Indiana, February 8, 1898; to which is added A Re-

view of the Evidence of the Election Intrigue of 1801, by Isaac

Jenkinson. Richmond, Indiana, M. Cullaton and Company, 1898.

55 pages. Autographed by F. F. Oldham.

Historic Blennerhassett Island Home, near Parkersburg,

West Virginia, by Alvaro F. Gibbens. Parkersburg, West Vir-

ginia, Globe Printing Company, 1899. 74 pages.

In Memory of Julius Dexter. September 23, 1840--October

21, 1898. Cincinnati, 1899. 38 pages.

A Biographical and Historical Sketch of Captain William

Crispin of the British Navy, together with Portraits and Sketches

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of Many of His Descendants, by William Frost Crispin. Akron,

The Commercial Printing Company, 1901. 144 pages.

The American System of Shorthand. The Phonographic

Dictionary and Phrase Book, by Benn Pitman and Jerome B.

Howard. Cincinnati, The Phonographic Institute Company, 1901.

552 pages.

Sir Isaac Pitman, His Life and Labors, by Benn Pitman.

Cincinnati, C. J. Krehbiel and Company, 1902. 201 pages. Auto-

graphed copy.

Miscellany, by Gustavus Henry Wald. Cincinnati, The Eb-

bert and Richardson Company, 1906. 192 pages.

The Crane Family History, by Sarah Schenck Crane. Cin-

cinnati, The Ebbert and Richardson Company, 1911. 67 pages.

Autographed copy.

"Selections from the Gano Papers, I," in the Quarterly Pub-

lication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Vol-

ume 15, numbers 1 and 2. January-June, 1920. Cincinnati, The

Abingdon Press, 1920. 75 pages.

Autographs, by [L. J. Cist]. A separate from Studies in Lit-

erature (pages 77-94). Autographed by L. J. Cist.

An Interpretation of the Life and Poetry of Coates Kinney,

by Debora May MacNeilan. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State

Archaeological and Historical Society, 1931. 88 pages. Auto-

graphed copy.

Public Libraries in the United States of America. Special

Report, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. Part 1.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1876. 1187 pages.

Autographed by John Eaton, Commissioner of Education.

Miscellaneous Items (Boxes 67-74):

Key to the Blennerhassett Wine Cellar, presented to William

Henry Venable by Professor H. Stahl. (Box 67)

Sixteen woodcuts used by William Henry Venable in The

Teacher's Dream. (Box 69)

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Miscellaneous documents, including autographs of William

Venable, father of William Henry Venable. (Box 67)

Manuscript Arithmetic Book used by William Venable,

father of William Henry Venable. (Box 68)

Photographic portrait of Ned Buntline, by James Landy,

noted Cincinnati photographer, presented to Evelyn Venable by

Beatrice L. Landy, granddaughter of the photographer. (Box 67)

Clippings and letters describing the life of Ned Buntline.

(Box 67)

One hundred and fifty-five lantern slides showing portraits,

manuscripts, and places of historical interest, used by Emerson

Venable in his lecture "American Poets of the Middle West."

(Boxes 70-71)

Glass negatives of photographs of Coates Kinney's grave and

of his home in Waynesville, Ohio. (Box 69)

Death mask of Coates Kinney. A plaster cast, by Charles T.

Webber. (Box 72)

Two quill pens presented to William Henry Venable by

William Davis Gallagher; one piece of wood from the log house

in which William Henry Venable was born; and part of the win-

dow-frame from the old school-house in Warren County, built

about 1814. (Box 74)