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Maryland Historical Magazine, 1944, Volume 39, Issue No. 1 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME XXXIX BALTIMORE 1944 CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIX PAGE A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S HUNDRED YEARS. By Samuel K. Dennis, 1 THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF BALTIMORE, 1795-1854. By Stuart C. Sherman, 6 A DISCORDANT CHAPTER IN LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION: THE DAVIS-BLAIR CONTROVERSY. By Reinhard H. Luthin, 25 BENNET ALLEN, FIGHTING PARSON, continued. By Josephine Fisher, . 49 THE HISTORIC MULBERRY TREE OF ST. MARY'S CITY. By William B. Marye, 73 A LIST OF PROMOTIONS IN THE MARYLAND REGULAR TROOPS, 1776. Edited by William D. Hoyt, Jr., 81 BOOK REVIEWS, 85, 164, 269, 345 NOTES AND QUERIES, 93, 175, 274, 357 VIGNETTES OF MARYLAND HISTORY: PART I. By Raphael Semmes, ... 95 LETTERS OF SEVERN TEACKLE WALLIS, 1816-1894. By Frederick Down Scott, S. J., 127 MADAME GRELAUD'S FRENCH SCHOOL. By Lucy Leigh Bowie, .... 141 POLITICS IN MARYLAND DURING THE CIVIL WAR, continued. By Charles Branch Clark, 149, 315 AN ACCOUNT OF THE JOHN BROWN RAID, 162 CONTROVERSY OVER THE COMMAND AT BALTIMORE IN THE WAR OF 1812, By Ralph Robinson, 177 CIVILIAN DEFENSE IN BALTIMORE, 1814-1815: MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE AND SAFETY. Edited by William D. Hoyt, Jr., 199, 293 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION IN THE UNITED STATES. By Frank B. Jewett, 225 A MARYLAND TOUR IN 1844: DIARY OF ISAAC VAN BIBBER, 237 WILLIAM PINKNEY'S FIRST PUBLIC SERVICE. By Max P. Allen, .... 277 EARLY MARYLAND BOOKPLATES By Edith Rossiter Bevan, 310 GOVERNOR CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH'S VIEWS ON SLAVERY, 332 AMONG THE " MEETERS AT THE BAYSIDE." By Emerson B. Roberts, . 335 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Newsboys' Address, 1780, opp. 95 Announcement of a Lottery Broker, 1823, 115 Toll Rates at Norwood's Ferry Bridge, 1817, 123 Eliza Law (Mrs. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) (1797-1822) opp. 141 Julia Calvert (Mrs. Richard Henry Stuart) (1810 P-1888), . opp. 141 William Henry Winder (1775-1824) by Joseph Wood, .... opp. 177 Isaac Van Bibber (1810-1847), opp. 237 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE VOL. XXXIX MARCH, 1944 No. 1 A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S HUNDRED YEARS* By SAMUEL K. DENNIS It is a pleasure and an honor to participate on any terms in the birthday celebration of this virile and learned centenarian; to tell you briefly of its power, and triumph; to mention also some of the existing weaknesses it will doubtless correct long before its next centennial. Since I am not an officer of the Society I am the better enabled to do both objectively. Your magnetic and progressive President lately ordered me to deliver an address covering the crowded century this Society has lived. I protested. That would consume hours; would postpone too long the promised opportunity to hear one of the world's fine poets and authors, the Honorable Archibald MacLeish. Again it is superfluous to rehearse the history of the Society, when the splendid historical address of the late Bernard C. Steiner, carefully prepared and delivered in 1919, is available. A compromise was reached; which is " A Brief Summary "; and you will find that indeed enough. I would prefer to speak without manuscript. But to do so * Address before the Centennial Meeting of the Society at the Peabody Institute, February 21, 1944. 1 2 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE involves the danger that I might overrun your patience. A written paper imposes calculated limits; a salutary device. All know this Society was organized by large and enlightened men, the intellectual elite of the City, at a time when there was direst need of its offices. Its corporate function expressed in its ancient charter was to collect, preserve and diffuse information relating to biography and to the civil and literary history of this State and of America. "We are proud of that small group of progressive men, with a blessed sense of the past, such as Mayer, whose portrait adorns the Society's hall, Latrobe, Brune, Lucas, Brown, Donaldson and J. Morrison Harris (the last of the founders to pass away), who sacrificed valiantly and labored fruitfully a century ago to found and nurture this institution. Perhaps they would feel rewarded for their efforts, their faith confirmed, could they note the growth of this unique Society, now of over 2,000 members, which maintains a considerable museum, an art gallery, and a really great library that includes a fine collection of original historical material, housed in part in a man- sion itself nearly a century old. That is not all. The Society pub- lishes a magazine of unquestioned quality; and has happily be- come patron and host for a popular free lecture program, as is abundantly demonstrated by the presence of our gifted guest speaker of the evening. It is clear the Society is still true to the original ideals of its founders. We are proud of the vitality of the Society, its drawing power, its quality of continuity. Descendants of the founders are potent today in its affairs. Men and women of the Mayer, Latrobe, Donaldson and Brune blood, for example, are among our mem- bers. Perhaps the most signal instance of sustained loyalty to tradition is found in our secretary, Mr. W. Hall Harris, Jr. His grandfather, a great and forceful man, J. Morrison Harris, helped found the Society. He lived to deliver the address when the Society celebrated its fiftieth birthday. Secretary Harris' father, the late W. Hall Harris, suave, intellectual, gifted, was our Presi- dent for thirteen years. Hence the Society over a period of a century has incurred a debt of gratitude to the Harris family. For over sixty years the Society had its home in the old Athe- naeum Building, at Saratoga and St. Paul Streets, where the garage—-what a change—now stands. That dignified old build- ing was not fire proof, was dingy, dark, and ill-suited. It must be MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY S HUNDRED YEARS 3 owned the meetings held there were formidable. Minutes and correspondence were read in extenso to a mere handful of faith- ful members present, and late in the evening they were rewarded, or punished, with a " discourse." The streamlined mechanics of a corporate meeting you witnessed tonight are not of the past century. Nor was the Athenaeum a pleasant place to work. Patient, pallid genealogists shuffled in perennial gloom; and the public rarely invaded their semi-solitude. We were emancipated from those severe quarters February 18, 1919, through the generosity of the greatest of the Society's multi- tude of benefactors, Mrs. H. Irvine Keyser. She it was who bought the old Enoch Pratt mansion, through which you lately passed; and she it was who added the fire proof structure, passed on its plans, and presented the whole to the Society as a memorial to her husband. It is perhaps in poor taste to mention figures in connection with a memorial so dignified, so august, presented so graciously to honor her husband, and to preserve from fire and moth the historical treasures she so sincerely appreciated. Yet for the record it should be said, I hope without impropriety and if we judge correctly, that the property cost Mrs. Keyser about $200,000. The Society has received countless rich gifts from generous friends; legacies, and works of art, whole libraries, manuscripts, which defy appraisal for they are not to be priced in dollars. Nevertheless the glorious generosity of Mrs. Keyser, according to tangible standards, overtops the rest. We look back to the fabulous characters who have been our guests or patrons; men of the caliber of Webster, Clay, Peabody, Bulwer Lytton, James Bryce, Clemenceau, and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. A century hence your descendants will reflect proudly upon the many famous public men who have been attracted to this platform by our indefatigable President, con- stantly aided by Mr. Benjamin Howell Griswold, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Addresses. Posterity will envy us the oppor- tunity, which we in fact richly enjoy, of seeing those figures and hearing their living voices. The Society collected, and, until the Hall of Records was com- pleted, preserved, an immense mass of early public records at a time when the State itself was neither disposed nor able to pro- tect them from theft and loss. The Society's own enormous col- lections of manuscripts, original corporate and personal records 4 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE are of inestimable value to students and antiquarians. The Society has edited and published fifty-nine volumes of State Archives, aided by State appropriations, and thereby made the most im- portant provincial records of the State available. It is amazing how constantly the Archives are consulted. Some of those vol- umes are dog-eared with use. Dr. J. Hall Pleasants merits un- stinted praise for lately performing that exacting editorial task. Perhaps the Maryland Historical Magazine, started in 1906, under the editorial care of Professor William Hand Browne, sup- plies our widest popular appeal. Our members are scattered here, there and even abroad. Relatively few have access to Society headquarters, or may listen to the interesting lectures delivered there by accomplished journalists, statesmen and authors. The Magazine reaches them all. It is also available to patrons of many libraries. The magazine continued to find public favor during the golden period when that remarkable man of letters, Louis H. Dielman, was its editor. And now that editorial duty falls to our gifted Director, Mr. James W. Foster. A further triumph: In 1891 the Society abandoned its original anti-feminist policy and welcomed women to membership. True, no undignified haste marked that step. But the wisdom of the new and enlightened policy has been graciously and beautifully vindicated.
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