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IS ~U E D QUARTER LY FOR T HE CL E MENTS LIB R ARY ASSOC IAT ES NU MBER 95 . D EC. 19; I

Board of Governors from th is Library, all relating to the Revolution. Each volume will have a distinguished editor, AT Irs RECENT MEETING, October 7, the Board th is cost being provided by a gra n t from the discussed pl ans for proper observance of the National Endowment for the H umani ties. J erome Librar y's fiftieth an niversary in 1973. One even t Ozer, In c. of will publish the volumes - defin itely scheduled and is under way. From at the Ta lc of two a year, starting in 19i4. Copi es _lcGregor Fund in Detroit a grant has been will be sen t free to our Associates; th e bulk will received to cover the cost of publishing a short be marketed by the publisher. history of the Librar y. Present thought is to make The th ird contribution will be a sta tistical it more valuable by presen ting briefly oppor­ study of the American R evolution in three part s: tunities for resear ch here by noting the source the number of casualties in each engagement, the ma terial we ha ve in printed and manuscript form varying size of th e Con tinen tal Arm y mo nth hy OIl a varie ty of topical subjects. The bookl et month, and the number of men who bore arms. 1IfOuJd be mailed out to other libraries, to aca­ T he first two aspects of this research will result d emic hi story dep artments, and to OUf Associates. in two publications. The third might appea r to Another even t being shaped is a gala banquet be merely a lone total number, and th at is what for Associates and friends climaxing a fund rais­ we seek (it ha s never been known). but to find ing campaign in 1972-73. It would be a combined th at total of participation we shall have to com­ bir thday dinner and victory celebration.T he pil e an index of all the soldiers and sailors by peaker is to be a person of national or interna­ name. The tota l number of en listments in the tional importan ce, perhaps a foreigner wit h Revolutionary forces was said to be 396,000, but .-\merican connections. Read ers will hear more mo st of our forebears served more than once, or of this aflair as pl ans develop. nv·o to five tim es. H ence, if we ar e to count It is ho ped that a symposium of scholars may bod ies we sha ll have to use nam es. also meet in 1973 at the Library. The financial T h is latter sign ifican t investigation is bein g obliga tions of thi s kind of gatheri ng are being in­ funded hy a two-year grant Crom Lilly Endow­ vestiga ted. ment, In c. and will utilize he lp from grad ua te Ideas on all aspects of this Golden Anniversar y studen ts in th e East in the summers of 1972 and ..-iil be happily received from our Associates, 1973. A part-time co-ordinator and a fulltime typi st will work in our Library under the d irec­

OUT Own R evolution tion of three professors in the H istory Depart­ ment and Mr. Peckham. :\ IEXTI ON \ VAS ~IA DE in the last Quarto of our Perhaps we should sell raffle tickets on guessing co-sponsorship with th e Rhode Island Histori cal th e total number of sold iers and sailors we will Society of a multi-volume publi cation of the ul timately find. \ Ve are not guara n teeing that we pa pers of Gen. Nath anael Greene. Most of the can fini sh th is part of the investigation in two cost. is being underwritten by the Society, the years, but we will be far enough along to know Xarional H istori cal Publications Commission, how much more time may be needed. and R bode Island gronps. This is but one of our T hese three projects will put the Clemen ts con tr ibutions to the coming Bicentennial of the Library in the forefront of Bicentennial activity Ame rican Revolution. as the ann iversary approaches. T hey will demo n­ T he second con tribu tion will be a series of ten stra te th at a quiet library can be a dynamic small volumes founded on manuscript material insti tutio n. counting this experience . His narrative of storm is believed to have suggestd to Shakespeare the sett ing of The T empest. Only five other copies are found in this country. The other book was a sermon delivered in L0n­ don in ,622 en titled Virginia's God Be Thank ed: It was in thanksgiving for "the happy success ai. affairs in Virginia this last year." T he min ister THE CLEMENTS LIBRARY ASSOCIATES quoted extensively from 'descriptive letters ca of T he University of Michigan Virginia scu lers-snot knowing that a few da ~_ after he spoke th e first hos tile Indians would sweep over the colony and in one day kill more BOARD OF GOVERN ORS than a quarter of the inhabitants! T his copy i (Appointed by th e Regen ts of the University) one of nin e known in this country. From regular Associates' funds the Board Carl W. Bonbrigh t, Flint bought a little known anon ymous book , written R oscoe O. Bonisteel, Ann Arbor by an Englishman, entitled Political, Commerci. I Edward W .Bowen , Bay City and Statistical Sketches of th e Spanish Empire in Robert P. Briggs. Elk R apids Both Indies ( 18"9). The title hardly sug­ J ohn R . Dykema. Detroit gests its importance, for it discusses in particular Willi am C . Fmkensta edt, Detroit the controversial right of free navigation of the David W . Kendall. Detroit Mississippi River. This was bound up wth the James S. Schoff, New York, CHAIR:."\fAN current embargoes of the Napo leonic wars and Morrison Shafroth, Denver the rights of Spaniards and British since the U. S. James Shearer, Chicago purchase of Louis iana. The matter was not clear­ George H . Tweney, Seattle ly resolved until we purch ased East and 'Vest Mrs. David F. Upto n, St. Joseph Florida. O nly one oth er copy of th is work cou ld Lee D. van Antwerp. Northbrook, Ill. be loca ted . H oward H . Peckham. Director of the Library, SECRETARY Virtuous Heroine

OUR GROWING COLLECTION of early American fic­ tion ha s just been enhanced by the addition of an extremely rare 1816 imprint. The The Bounty of Friends Invisible M onit or; or, M emoirs of the D'Aluora Family. The au thor was a Mrs . Shephard. whose THE EXTRAORDlNARY CONTRIBUT JONS made by OUT ident ity is otherwise unknown but who was ap­ Clements Library Fellows last year gave us sign ifi­ paremly a Philadelphia reside n t. She speaks in cant purchasing power, and the Board of Gover­ the ,preface of sending the book into the world nors wisely decided that these monies should be and trusting it to "the candour which has ever reserved for certain specia l acquis itions ordinarily distinguished the people of Phi ladelphia." She beyo nd the reach of the Library. Accordingly two also mentions that she was only seventeen when early and rare books were finally acquired with she first conceived the pl an for the book. Fellows funds. T he plot, which is laid in Cartagena and One harks back to the time when was Puerto Rico, is typical of early nineteenth-century first settled and administered by the London melodrama, invol ving a wicked step-sister, a vir­ Company as part of Virginia. A group of English tuous younger sister, an attempted forced mar­ colonists bound for Virginia was shipwrecked on riage to an elderly nobleman, an elopement. and Bermuda in a great storm in 1609. They stayed the inevitable happy ending and triumph of there during the pleasant winter, bui lt a new virtue. ship, and man y of them conti nued on to Vir­ Only one other copy of the novel is known. ginia the next year. A few remained on the island. and it sold at auction three years ago. Our copy One was Sylvester Jourdain, who wrote Plaine was added to the Li brary through the Harper Description of th e (Lo ndon 1613) re- Fund. r OOT H arriot, or Hannah, or Jane Mission Accomplished f ~I TIME To TIME the Library has a second DOUGL AS MARSH ALL, Head of the Division of dzance at a book auctioned off at the Streeter Maps and Newspapers, has returned [rom his of Americana. Such an opportunity was particip ation in the IV Intern ational Conference ued recently when a scarce edition of an on th e Histor y of Cartography in Edin burgh. H is 'a n cap tivity origina lly sold in 1967 reap' travels took him to several of the major libraries red at another auction. Mr. Streeter's own and map collec tions of . including not -..xes arc written on the fly leaf. only th e British Museum and Public Record Th e Narrative of the Gaptivity and Su fferings Office in London, but private visits to the Duk e et .lfrs. H arriot Lewis ( 1821) apparen tly of Bedford's librar y at W oburn Abbey and th e enjoyed the usual popularity accorded th ese Duke 01 Northumberland's map collection at a citing stories. First published in 1817 it was Alnwiek Castle. Mr. Marshall's tour included reprinted several times with the hapless lady introductions to the established book and map referred to variously as Hannah, Harriot, and dealers of London and a research trip to the Jme. ' Institute library at Chatham. Supposedly, the harrowing even t, if indeed it He made several important map acquisitions too k place, occurred near St. Louis in 1815. Her {or the Clements and secured a promise to pub­ husband J ames was kill ed immedi ately, and then lish hi s bibliography of Capt. J ohn Montresor's >be with the children, a son of 16, a da ugh ter of maps of America. .Montresor was the most p rom ~ 10 and the usual infant in arms, began a forced inent and prolific British engineer in America march . Finall y, after two years of grueso me bond­ before and during the , a age. Hannah and the son, now adept in Indian twenty-four yea r period. and Mr . Marshall con­ ...rays, escaped to return to St. Louis. They cou ld firm ed the fact that we have the largest collec tion not save the two younger children. anywhere of his extant maps, even though he A crude but vivid double-page woodcut shows unearthed some previously unknown Montresor the unhappy family, guarded well by two Indian maps. He was invit ed to spend an extended visit braves equipped with tomahawks, as they journey at the home of th e descendant of this remarkable through the woods. Only two other copies are family of military engineers. Incated, both in New England. We purchased Early in November he read a paper at th e ours from the James Shearer Memorial Fund. annual meetin g of the Society for the History of Discoveries at Yale University. S ew Manuscripts Man Foreign T rade R u ks JOHN C. DANN of Williamsburg, Virginia , has been appoin ted hea d of the Division of Man u­ THE T ERM "SUPERCARGO" is not calculated to scripts, to assume his duti es on January 1. A make a man's eyes grow misty with visions of native of Delaware, Mr. Dann did his under­ romantic, far-away places. For the unin itiated, graduate work at Dickinson College. earned his the term "supercargo" refers to an officer on a master's degree at the College of William and merchant ship who has the responsibility for the Mar y, and will receive his doc torate in colonial cargo and the commercial in terests of the voyage. American history there. He has done some teach­ 11 is a decidedly unromantic occupation. iog during his graduate career as well as some But the life of a supercargo in the early nine­ editorial work, but he prefers to work with teenth century seems to have been filled with manuscripts and enjoys research. He is married. adventure. William Law, a nephew of musician His recommendations were most enthusiastic, Andrew Law (whose papers we have), was super· and we have high hopes for him. car go for the New York Quak er merchant firm of Willi am L. Joyce. who has been acting head Minturn and Champlin. Among the ex tensive although not a fulhime staff member, will con­ William Law papers recently acq uired by the tin ue his parttime work whil e pursuing his de­ Library are accounts of his voyages as supercargo gree. Miss Mary Beech y, who has been halftime to the Far East and Batavia in the Dutch East assistant, is leaving to prcpare for doctoral exam­ Indies. T o protect the cargoes durin g th e Na· inations. These two have accommodated readers, poleonic wars, Law had to evade British naval answered mail inq uiries. organized three new vessels. bribe customs men and naval offi cials collections, and cata logued. A respite will be around the world. and cope with severe weather welcome while the new man becomes acd imated. and capricio us privateers. Law's success in seeing cargo to its appointed Edward N. Cole, Detroit destination led to his promotion in 1810 to agent Mr. & Mrs: Bly A. Corning, Flint for Minturn and Champlin in Europe. He was Dr. Robert R. Crawford, Mansfield, Ohio responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars Earl H . Cress, Ann Ar bor 'worth of goods caught in the male of trade restric­ Gilbert A. Currie, Midland tions enacted during the Napoleonic Wars and Earl W . DeLano, Allegan during the prologue to the War of 1812. The Alden B. Dow, Midland great bulk of this collection concerns Law's efforts Arthur W. Ehrlicher, Pekin, Ill. on behalf of Minturn and Champlin in the period Mrs. Virginia S. Ehrlicher, Pekin, m, from 1810 to 1816. Among the 1800 loose letters, William C. Finkenstaedt, Grosse Pointe 18 account books, and 12 letter books found in Mr. & Mrs. George W. Ford, Ann Arbor this collection are the records of Law's compli­ Earl Forsyth, Bloomfield Hills cated dealings with both merchants and govern­ Peter M. Frenzel, Middletown, Conn. ment officials in New York, London, Copenhagen, Mrs. Hubert H. Frisinger, Fort Collins, Colo. Riga, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere. They show Mr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Gault, Ann Arbor the risks assumed by early U.S. exporters. Harry G. Gault, Flint Harry S. Hawkins, Ann Arbor M. D.Jahn, Chicago Collectors' Prize Mr. & Mrs. C. C.Jung, Evanston, m. & \VHAT Is CONSIDERED to be the first true atlas Dr. Mrs. Edgar A. Kahn, Ann Arbor came to us last summer as a gift from Mrs. John Paul]. Kern, Hillsdale, N.]. G. \Vinter, a Clements Library Fellow. Abraham Lawrence R. Klein, Tucson Ortelius was a map seller in Antwerp who con­ Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Kneebone, Houston ceived the idea of putting. together a matching Eli Lilly, Indianapolis series of maps with an accompan ying text for a Miss Elizabeth Long, Detroit patron who had trouble finding the separate Thomas G. Long, Detroit maps in his collection because of failing eyesight. Dr. C. E. McCole, Detroit From this beginning, Ortelius decided to repro­ Neil C. McMath, Bloomfield Hills duce a printed version which would consist of Harry Martens, Saginaw 35 leaves of text and 53 maps in uniform size and Paul Menon, Upperville, Va. bound. This brainchild reached the press in Mal' Mr. & Mrs. Alex Miller, Cleveland of 1570 and sold so well that a second edition was Dr. ]. Duane Miller, Grand Rapids printed three months later. By the time of Or­ Mrs. E. Ted Neubauer, telius' death in 1598, the popular atlas had been Mrs. Donald L. Quaife, Dearhorn published in 28 editions and five languages. The Morgan Ramsay, Jr., Bay City Clemen ts Library has ten of these editions, now Dr. and Mrs. Theophile Raphael, Atlanta, Ga. capped by the prized first edition of the series. Dr. Morton L. Rosenthal, Great Neck, N .Y. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal, Highland Park, Ill, Our Fellows Rally James S. Schoff, New York City L. William Sessions, New York City \VE \VELCOME the following old Fellows and new )"kWK§, ~t\.,",'<;J: ll, Qli~~.I>,Q ones [or their generous support. They confirm the Mrs. Albert A. Shirley, Birmingham on-going purposes of the Library and deserve our Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Sink, Ann Arbor warm gratitude. Paul H. Townsend, Metamora, Mich. Mrs. John Alexander, Ann Arbor University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor Mr. & Mrs. Melvin D . Baldwin, Grand Rapids Dr. & Mrs. E. Gifford Upjohn, Kalamazoo Roger K. Becker, Evansville, Ind. Frederick S. Upton, St. Joseph Carl W . Bonbright, Flint Miss Mary Ann Wales, Birmingham Roscoe O. Bonisteel, Sr., Ann Arbor Mrs. John W . Watling, Santa Barbara Robert P. Briggs, Elk Rapids Carl H. Weber, Bay City Robert]. Brown, Kalamazoo Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Wens, St. Louis Mr. &: Mrs. Wilfred V. Casgrain, Grosse Pointe Frederick Bernays Wiener. Washington, D.C. Farms Mr. & Mrs. ]. Curtis Winson, Bloomfield Hills Robert]. Cierzniewski, Bay City Mrs. John G. Winter, Ann Arbor