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The Report of the Council

October 17, 1984

JL/uRiNG THE PAST Several years the Council has beendcware that the complexity and pace of activities at the Societyhave been rising at such a rate that the members of our out-standing staff, as well as our finances, could not long maintainthem without more help. The 1983-84 fiscal year appears tohave marked the watershed in that process. If any single eventsignaled the fact, it was the retirement of Frederick E. Bauerfrom the post of associate librarian. He came to the Societyfrom Mount Hermon School where he taught, administered,and served as librarian from 1947 until 1970. He was trained ineconomic history, political science, and library science at Prince-ton and Columbia universities and is the author of two text-books published by D. C. Heath Co., Liberty and Power in theMaking of the Constitution ( 1963) and Democracy in the Age ofJackson ( 1965). In 1970 Bauer served as a State Departmentconsultant on secondary education in Ghana and in Morocco. Amember of the Massachusetts Historical Society and sometimepresident of the Holden Historical Society, he has long beenactive in local historical groups. In 1977, Bauer received anaward of merit from the American Association for State andLocal History for the Bicentennial program 'Get Smart AboutHolden.'

At AAS, Fred Bauer attended to myriad duties ranging fromcataloguing by computer to helping watch over the boilers.Preservation of research materials is a particular interest of his.He played a leading part in the planning and execution of suchactivities here at AAS and served for several years on the advi-sory board at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.

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His quiet, intelligent, and competent manner established asense of trust and security which has been an essential elementin the growth and stability of the Society during the hectic pastdecade and a half, and his kindness and understanding sensibil-ities have been a great source of strength to all our staff. Inparticular, the author of this report has depended greatly uponFred Bauer's unfailing good judgment and humane perspectiveon all manner of problems. We shall miss Fred Bauer verymuch.

Fred, a native of New Jersey, and his wife, the former RuthTappan, have moved to a new life in New Hampshire. Weknow that where they go they will enrich others' lives as theyhave ours. We wish them Godspeed and give Ruth and Fredour untrammeled gratitude and affection.

Fred Bauer's departure made clear how much we had de-pended upon him for the coordination of our staff work, partic-ularly when we experienced two instances of a situation new tothe Society—maternity leave of absence. Carol R. Kanis, whohas been with us for a decade in the cataloguing department(latterly as its head), gave birth to a daughter, Blair, on No-vember 21, 1983. Our keeper of manuscripts, Kathleen A.Major, and her husband adopted a daughter, Stephanie, onJanuary 24, 1984. It came to pass that neither mother chose toreturn to AAS on a full-time basis. Vivian B. Schotte, who hadserved so well as our bookkeeper since 1972, retired at thefirst of December 1983. She was succeeded by Michael D. Mer-chant, who was still in the process of coming to terms with ouraccounting needs when he resigned, just at the end of our fiscalyear, to take up a college course in computing. Major staffchanges like these would have tested Fred's patience and skillseven in quieter times, but contributing as they did to a year ofhyperactivity, the impact upon the remaining members of thestaff has been quite unnerving. However, if we can get ouraccounting situation straightened out, with extra help from ourauditors, and with new personnel in place, life will go on as itdoes, even now.

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We have taken a number of significant steps in restructuringand reconstituting our staff to meet these complicated changes.In recognition of his continuing contributions to the work ofAAS, John B. Hench has been appointed the associate directorofthe Society for research and publication. Readers will recallthat Mr. Hench came to AAS from Mankato State College in1973 as the Alden Porter Johnson editor of publications andwas appointed assistant director for research and publication in1981. Hench holds a Ph.D. in American history from ClarkUniversity. During his graduate student days in Worcester, heworked at AAS at the readers' services desk. Now he plans andsupervises all our research projects, our fellowship programs,publications, and education activities (which include lectures,even an opera, informal colloquia, an undergraduate seminar,and the two AAS postdoctoral seminars, in American politicaland social history and in American literary history).

To succeed Mr. Bauer in administering our work in the li-brary, Nancy Hall Burkett was named assistant librarian oftheSociety on July 1, following a nationwide search. Ms. Burkettjoined the staff of the Society in 1973 as assistant curator ofmanuscripts and was named head of readers' services in 1978.In both posts she served with distinction. Before she came tothe American Antiquarian Society Ms. Burkett was on the staffofthe University of Southern California at Los Angeles, at St.Stephen's School in Rome, Italy, and Harvard University. Shewas a director ofthe Worcester Public Library from 1976 to1982 and currently is president ofthe Friends ofthe WorcesterPublic Library.

In order to take up other portions of Mr. Bauer's duties,Eleanor S. Adams was named the executive assistant to thedirector. Mrs. Adams has been with the Society since 1953,when she came as secretary to the late Clifford K. Shipton.Later she worked in the newspapers and serials departments atAAS. In 1968 Mrs. Adams was made secretary to the directorand in 1972 was appointed office manager. A graduate ofthe


Salter Secretarial School, Mrs. Adams is an experienced gene-alogist and has served as registrar for the Colonel TimothyBigelow Chapter of the DAR for twenty-five years.

Mrs. Kanis's successor as head of cataloguing services is AlanN. Degutis. When he joined the staif of the American Anti-quarian Society in August 1974, Alan was employed as libraryassistant in the Readers' Services Department. At that time,his training and experience in German literature seemed some-what remote from AAS interests; nonetheless, library serviceappeared to be an attractive, although temporary, employment.Ten years later, following a year of graduate study at ColumbiaUniversity in library service, marriage to one of our staff alum-nae, Racheal Shea, and more than six years of cataloguingexperience (much of it with the North American Imprints Pro-gram), Mr. Degutis took up his present responsibilities.

So, we have experienced a major upheaval within the seniorpositions of our staff which, coupled with extended workloadsand the normal turnover of other staff members, has caused acertain level of anxiety among our colleagues.

The financial situation of AAS has been complicated by thefactors enumerated above. Furthermore, more work has de-manded that additional staff members be appointed. Thus,Doris N. O'Keefe, who has been with us for several years as thesenior cataloguer in the American broadsides project, has beenappointed to the AAS cataloguing staff, part time, and in May1985 will devote all her time to AAS. Also, Carolyn A. Allenhas been promoted to a department head level in aquisitions.She assists the director by supervising the difficult routinesthat are involved in searching and processing new materialsthat enter our collections. In addition to these changes, newappointments have been made in the readers' services, manu-scripts, and editorial departments. The impact of these staffchanges (among a staff of 52) was severe. Because the core ofour great staff is intact, we look forward in 1984-85 to a timeof consolidation and reorientation as we learn how to accom-


plish our tasks in different ways and with different colleagues.Mrs. Burkett reports that two major activities in the library

stand out: implementation of our plan to cope with naturaldisasters and our new security proposal. The significance of thedisaster plan lies in the library's sensitivity and responsibilityto the research materials in our keeping. A potential brokenwater main is as real to us as the acquisition of a new book, itscataloguing, and its retrieval for scholars. A single catastrophicevent could in a few minutes wipe out nearly 175 years of care-ful collecting, cataloguing, and preservation of our extraor-dinary resources.

The security plan, still under consideration by the Commit-tees on the Hall and the Library and by our staff, represents 'anattempt to prevent complacency and to stimulate new thinkingabout security in an age when dangers to collections have be-come more common and more threatening to all research li-braries.' Many of the measures affecting readers have been putinto effect and we will study and implement other aspects of theplan in the next few months.

The Society's membership in the Research Libraries Groupis an alliance of great importance to AAS. RLG has from itsbeginning attempted to find cooperative ways of providing ser-vices and increased bodies of materials to scholars. The RLINcomputer system is the most flexible in existence and it workswell. Cooperative programs to preserve self-destructing bookshave been funded, and cataloguing of unique research materialshas been encouraged. The Council and your director believethat this kind of association is the best way to meet the futureresearch needs of our Society and, because of the importance ofour collections, to keep AAS involved with and contributing tothe national trends of research librarianship.

Acquisition statistics are especially revealing of our vitalityand growth. Records were made for 6,592 additions to the col-lections. This figure represents an increase over 1982-83 totalsof 1,395 items and includes books, pamphlets, newspapers.


periodicals, manuscripts, broadsides, sheet music, and photo-graphs. While the total amount of money spent on acquisitionpurchases has doubled over the last two years, this has onlyincreased the number of purchases by 21 percent. Prices haverisen notably for new books and for the nineteenth-centurytitles pertaining to the development of the western states. Thenumber of catalogues, quotations, and book reviews growslarger each year, and searching titles takes longer because ofthe complexity of the general card catalogue and the largeamount of material in uncatalogued collections or on backlogshelving.

SELECTED ACQUISITIONS, 1983-1984

Defoe, Daniel. The life of Robinson Crusoe, of Tork, Mariner. Boston:Fowle & Draper, ca. 1757-62. 16 pp. This is the earliest knownAmerican edition of Robinson Crusoe and is unrecorded. IsaiahThomas was an apprentice in this printing office at the time ofthe publication of the chapbook and it seems likely that he had ahand in its printing. Henry F. DePuy Fund.

Webb, Thomas. A military treatise on the appointments of the army.Philadelphia: W. Dunlap, MDCCLIX. xiii, 111 pp., 2 folded plates.Evans 8518. Harry G. Stoddard Memorial Fund.

Morgan, John. A discourse upon the institution of medical schools inAmerica. Philadelphia: William Bradford, MDCC,LXV. vii, xxvi,63 pp. Evans 10082.

Barton, Andrew. The disappointment: or. The force of credulity. NewYork: Printed in the year M,DCC,LXVII. 58 pp. Apparently printedin Philadelphia by William Goddard. This unperformed dramamay be more political than dramatic in nature and was moreprobably written by Thomas Forrest than by Barton. Harry G.Stoddard Memorial Fund.

Penn, William. Extract from the writings of JVilliam Penn. Provi-dence: Sarah Goddard & Co., M,Dcc,LXvn. 28 pp. Alden 364.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John. The freeholder's political catechism.London, printed; New London, reprinted and sold by T. Green,1769. 23 pp. Johnson 865.


J^ew-Tear's verses. Addressed to the customers of the JVova-ScotiaGazette. Halifax, 1788.'' Folio broadside, inscribed by MatherByles, Jr., who wrote the verse. George Watson Cole Fund.

Adgate, Andrew. A lecture; containing a short history of mechanics.Philadelphia: J. M'Culloch, January 1, 1789. 32 pp. No othercopy located. Evans 21627 and Rink 809.

Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between His BritannickMajesty, and the United States of America. Philadelphia printed;Poughkeepsie: reprinted by N. Power. 1795.'' 28 pp. Unrecorded.Jobn Thomas Lee Fund.

Brownson, Oliver. A new collection of sacred harmony, containing aset of psalm tunes, hymns and anthems. Simsbury, Conn., 1797. 56pp. Evans 31884.

The constitution and catalogue of books, of the JVewburyport Library.Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1797. 20, ( l ) p. Unrecorded.Harry G. Stoddard Memorial Fund.

Holyoke, Samuel. Exeter: for thanksgiving. Exeter: Henry Ranlet,M,Dcc,xcviii. 7 pp. and added musical MSS. Evans 33893.

Sands, Benjamin. A key to tbe impenetrable secret. NorthamptonTownship, Bucks County: Joseph Gales, 1799.'' 12 lvs. Unre-corded. George Watson Cole Fund.

Tbe festival of mirth, and American tar's delight. New York: ThomasB. Jansen & Co., 1800. 81, 2 pp. Lowens 193. Jobn ThomasLee Fund.

Catalogue of books belonging to tbe late Katban Frazier's library. Bos-ton.'', 1802. 10 pp. Unrecorded catalogue of a book auction beldon Wednesday, December 29, 1802, in Boston.

Tbe bistory of little King Pippin. New Haven: William W. Morse,1802. 30 pp. Unrecorded. John Thomas Lee Fund.

A catalogue of books, in W. Barias' circulating library, JVo. 6 Liberty-street. New York, 1809. HO, 12 pp. Unrecorded.

Tbe J^ew-Englandprimer. Haverhill: W. B. Allen, 1809. 62, ( l )p. Unrecorded. Emma Forbes Waite Fund.

Journal of Musick. Baltimore: Published by Madame Le Pelletier,1810, nos. 1-24. Wolfe 4696. Harry G. Stoddard MemorialFund.


The public advertiser. New York: Samuel Brower, April 20 throughOctober 15, 1812. 137 issues of this daily newspaper. JohnThomas Lee Fund.

Theater playbills. New York, 1815-19. 89 issues for various the-aters in New York City, although the majority were issued bythe Park Theater. George Watson Cole Fund.

The publications of the Virginia Religious Tract Society. Harrison-burg: Davidson & Bourne, 1813. Tracts 1-6 bound together.S&S 30428.

Durand, James R. The life and adventures ...from the year one thour-sand eight hundred and one, until the year one thousand eight hundredand sixteen. Bridgeport: Stiles Nichols & Son, 1817. 83 pp. S&S40701. John Thomas Lee Fund.

Housewrights' rules of work, for the Town of Portland. 1819. Port-land: A. & J. Shirley, 1819. 24 pp. Rink 1787.

Rand, Benjamin Howard. Rand's system of penmanship. Philadel-phia: Joseph Perkins, 1819. 4 pp., 11 plates. Dated December 1,1820, and called the second edition. An 1824 price list is inserted.This variant is unrecorded in Nash.

An essay on common wealths. New-York: New-York Society forPromoting Communities, 1822. 64 pp. Shoemaker 8634.

Coffin, Isaac Foster. Journal of a residence in Chili. Boston: Wellsand Lilly, 1823. 237 pp. Shoemaker 12195.

Barber, John Warren. Views in J^ew-Haven and its vicinity. NewHaven: J. W. Barber and A. H. Maltby and Co., 1825. 11 pp.,6 plates. Shoemaker 19602.

Neal, John. Brother Jonathan; or, tbe J^ew Engländers. Edinburgh:William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, MDCCCXXV. 3 vols. BAL14862.

Porter, Rufus. Patent revolving almanack. New York: Samuel Mav-erick, ca. 1825? Instructions for use and the original frame arepresent. John Thomas Lee Fund.

Boston Type & Stereotype Foundry. Specimen of modern printingtypes. Boston: T. R. Marvin, MDCCCXXVI. Henry F. DePuy Fund.

The Spirit of'76. Frankfort, Ky.: J. H. Holeman, 1826. 22 issues ofvol. 1, March 10 through August 4. Henry F. DePuy Fund.


Simms, William Gilmore. Lyrical and other poems. Charleston: Ellis& Neufville, 1827. 198, (6) pp. BAL 18038.

Lamb, Charles. Elia. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Carey, 1828. 2vols., first and second series. George Watson Cole Fund.

Lorraine, A. M. Donald Adair: a novel. Richmond: Peter Cottom,1828. 2 vols. I Wright 1730. John Thomas Lee Fund.

Marcet, Jane Haldiman. Conversations on political economy. Boston:Bowles & Dearborn, 1828. 330, (6) pp. Bound in an elaborateand inappropriate cathedral plaque binding. Michael PapantonioMemorial Fund.

Bryant, William CuUen. The American landscape, J^o. I. New York:Elam Bliss, 1830. Folio, 16 pp., 6 plates by Asher Durand. AUpublished. BAL 1600.

The girl's book. New-York: Printed and sold by M. Day, 1830. Anonce book containing 16 stories, each with title page and sepa-rately paged. Harry G. Stoddard Memorial Fund.

The Confession of Mina, the Spaniard, who was executed at Doyles-town, Penn. ...for the murder of William Chapman. Doylestown:Printed for the publisher, 1832. £4 pp. McDade 171. Henry F.DePuy Fund.

Cooper, James Fenimore. Autograph letter, signed, to ArmandCarrel, editor of Le JsTational, February 25? 1832. 3 pp., folio.Cooper refutes Louis-Sébastien Saulnier's charge, made in Revuebritannique, that the cost of government in the United States, ademocracy, was greater than that of a European monarchy. Theletter was translated into French and has not yet been publishedin English. Harry G. Stoddard Memorial Fund.

Goodrich, Samuel Gris wold. Peter Parley's tales about the state andcity ofJ^ew York. New York: Pendleton and Hill, 1832. 160 pp.An early Peter Parley book.

Hentz, Caroline Lee Whiting. Lovell's folly. A novel. Cincinnati:Hubbard and Edmands, 1833. 333 pp. i Wright 1152. GeorgeWatson Cole Fund.

Mentz, George W., & Son. Katalog von Schatzbaren deutschen bu~cbern. Philadelphia: Mentz, ca. 1835? 11, ( l ) p. John ThomasLee Fund.


StefFy, John W. Tbe valley barmonist. Winchester: Robinson &Hollis, 1836. 167, ( l ) p.

Busby, James. Journal of a recent visit to tbe principal vineyards ofSpain and France. Philadelphia: Jacob Snider, Jr., 1838. xi, ( 1 ),177 pp. Henry F. DePuy Fund.

Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. Celestial wonders and pbilosopby.Philadelphia: Printed for the Central University of Illinois, 1838.135 pp.

Knowlton, Charles. Fruits of pbilosopby, or tbe private companion ofadult people. Philadelphia: F. P. Rogers, 1839. 4th ed., with addi-tions. 128 pp. Emma Forbes Waite Fund.

Comstock, William. Tbe Life of Samuel Comstock, tbe terrible wbale-man. Boston: James Fisher; New York and Philadelphia: Turner& Fisher, 1840. 115 pp.

Cooper, James Fenimore. Os Puritanos da America ou o Falle deWisb-Ton-Wisb. Lisbon: Typ. da Academia das Bellas Artes,1841, 1842. 4 vols.

Greene, Jonathan Harrington. An exposure of tbe arts and miseries ofgambling. Cincinnati: ÍJ. P. James, 1843. 360 pp.

White, Charles. Cbarles White's black Apollo songster. New York andPhiladelphia: Turner & Fisher, ca. 1844. 32 pp. John ThomasLee Fund.

American Jewish Publication Society. Constitution and by-laws. Phil-adelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 (1845). 11 pp. John Thomas LeeFund.

Tbe Strange Adventures of Bachelor Butterfly. New York: Wilson &Co., 1846. 64 pp. George E. Ellis Fund.

Hawkins, Alfred. Tbe Quebec directory and city and comTuercial regis-ter. 1847-48. Montreal: Printed at the Canada Gazette Office,1847. xi, 204 pp.

Wisconsin Territory. Journal of tbe convention to form a constitutionfor tbe State of Wisconsin. Madison, W T.: Beriah Brown, 1847.506 pp. John Thomas Lee Fund.

Benjamin, Asher. Tbe arcbitect, or practical bouse carpenter. Boston:Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1848. 119 pp. 64 plates. Hitchcock128.


Hall, John. A series of select and original modern designs for dwellinghouses. Baltimore: John Murphy; Philadelphia: James Fullerton;Pittsburgh: George Quigley, MDCCCXLVIII. 2nd ed. 31 pp., 24plates. Hitchcock 534.

Wild, John Casper. Views of Philadelphia and its vicinity. Philadel-phia: J. T. Bowen, 1848. This copy may have been the pub-lisher's, since it is in a special binding and contains both coloredand uncolored duplicate plates.

Crisp, May Flower. A treatise on marine architecture. Maulmain:American Baptist Mission Press, 1849. 135 pp. Harry G. Stod-dard Memorial Fund.

Rural, Ralph. The mountain village; or, mysteries of the coal region.Pottsville: G. L. Vliet's Cheap Job Printing Office, 1849. 63 pp.An unrecorded novel. John Thomas Lee Fund.

Revere House, Boston. Bills of fare, October 1, 1849 - September30, 1850. Harriette Merrifield Forbes Fund.

Warren, Josiah. Equitable commerce: a new development of principles.Utopia, Ohio: Amos E. Senter, 1849. 2d ed. 63 pp.

De Kickapoo whoop; or, pee wee warbler. New York: Elton & Har-rison, ca. 1835? 24 pp. John Thomas Lee Fund.

Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory and panoramic advertiser. Phila-delphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851. 16 folded views. Spear 289.

Cabet, Etienne. Colony or Republic of Icaria in the United States ofAmerica.'iia.uwoo, (Illinois): Icarian Printing Office, 1852. 19pp.

Simms, William Gilmore. Michael Bonham: or, the fall of Bexar.Richmond: J. R. Thompson, 1852. 35 pp. BAL 18134.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stewart. Kitty Brown series. Philadelphia: Amer-ican Sunday School Union, ca. 1851-53. 4 vols., boxed.

Japan Expedition Press. U.S. Steam-Frigate "Powhatan," Simoda,Japan, May 1st, 1804. Letter from The President of the UnitedStates. Millard Fillmore, ... to ... the Emperor of Japan. Broad-side.

Baldwin, Oliver. Southern and South-Western sketches. Richmond:J. W. Randolph, 1855.? 190, xxiii pp. ii Wright 200.

Ballard, James. A history of the guitar, from the earliest antiquity tothe present time. New York: William B. Tilton & Co., 1855.105 pp.


Williams, Samuel. Four years in Liberia. Philadelphia: King &Baird, 1857. 66 pp. Jobn Tbomas Lee Fund.

Hale, Sarab Josepha (Buell). Modern bousebold cookery. London,Edinburgh, and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, MDCccLvni. xv,396 pp. Given by Mary Tolford Wilson.

Porter, William Trotter. Big Bear's adventures and travels, contain-ing tbe wbole of tbe Big Bear of Arkansas and stray subjects.Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1858. 181, 199 pp. GeorgeWatson Cole Fund.

Ehninger, John Whitton. Illustrations of Longfellow's Courtsbip ofMiles Standisb. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. Made up ofeight photographs by Matbew Brady of Ehninger's drawings.Inscribed by Ehninger to Mrs. John Hopper, March 30, 1859.George Watson Cole Fund.

HoUey, Alexander Lyman. American and European railway practicein tbe economical generation of steam. New York: O. Van Nos-trand; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. 192 pp., 77plates. Harry G. Stoddard Memorial Fund.

Holly, Henry Hudson. Holly's country seats containing litbograpbicdesigns for cottages, ... railway stations. New York: D. Appleton,1865. 171 pp., illus. Hitchcock 598.

Little Walter's Library. Buffalo: Breed, Butler & Co., 1863. 12miniature books, boxed. Emma Forbes Waite Fund.

Alliance Israelite Universelle, Paris. Constitution of tbe UniversalIsraelitisb Alliance. New York: Davis' Job Printing Office, 1864.8 pp. John Thomas Lee Fund.

McKenney, Thomas Lorraine. History of tbe Indian tribes of J^orthAmerica. Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1865-70. 50 parts in32, lacking part 8.

Meagber, Thomas Francis. Lectures. Virginia City, M.T.: Bruce& Wright, 1867. 104 pp.

Alger, Horatio, Jr. Ragged Dick; or, street life in Jfew Tork witb tbebootblacks. Boston: Loring, ca. 1868. 296 pp.

Tbe American Goliab. A wonderful geological discovery. A petrifiedgiant... History of tbe Discovery on Oct. 16, 1869. Syracuse, NY:Printed at the Journal Office, 1869. 15 pp.

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Woodward, George E. Woodward's national architect. New York:Geo. E. Woodward, ca. 1869. 25 parts, as issued.

HoUoway, Laura Carter. The ladies ofthe White House. New York:United States Publishing Co., 1870. Salesman's sample book.John Thomas Lee Fund.

Holmes, F. M., & Co. Catalogue & price list of furniture. Boston,1870. 2 parts, illus. with photographs. Harry G. Stoddard Me-morial Fund.

Schuylkill Typographical Union, No. 135. Constitution and by-laws.Pottsville, Pa.: Aug. Knecht & Bro., 1870. 24 pp. John ThomasLee Fund.

Colbert, Elias. Chicago and the great conflagration. Cincinnati andNew York: C. F. Vent, 1871. Salesman's sample book. Given byRoger E. Stoddard.

The book of prices, adopted by the house carpenters and master builders,of tbe cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. Pittsburgh: John E.Wiseman, Book and Job Printer, 1873. 40, (2) pp. John ThomasLee Fund.

Die Giftmischerin! Leben, Verbrechen und Verurtheilung von LydiaSherman. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., ca. 1873. 96 pp. Germantext of McDade 866 Henry F. DePuy Fund.

Durrie, Daniel S. A history of Madison, tbe capital of Wisconsin.Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, 1874. 420 pp.

Page, William H., & Co. Chromatic specimens. Greenville, Nor-wich, Conn.: 1874? Folio catalogue of wood type and ink manu-factured by Wm. H. Page & Co. Harry G. Stoddard MemorialFund.

Cushman, Samuel. The gold mines of Gilpin County, Colorado. Cen-tral City: Register Steam Printing House, 1876. 136 pp. DonaldMcKay Frost Fund.

Defoe, Daniel. The history of Robinson Crusoe. New York: M'Lough-lin Bros., n.d. 8 pp. Harry G. Stoddard Memorial Fund.

Howe, Frances R. The story of a French homestead in the Old J^orth-west. Columbus, Ohio: Nitschke Bros., 1907. 165 pp. Harry G.Stoddard Memorial Fund.


The work of the Cataloguing Department is generated bythe work of the Acquisitions Department, but although thestaff members continue to be productive in the processing ofnewly acquired materials, they are not able to keep pace be-cause of lack of time. The Research Libraries Information Net-work (RLIN) and our innovative, local cataloguing systemcontinue to serve us reliably and well, although the need forthe editing of records created on the latter system grows acute.The North American Imprints Program, now in its fifth year,has nearly finished its first phase and is launched on its secondphase. The other major cataloguingefiTort, the NEH-supportedAmerican Broadsides Project, continues to make good prog-ress with approximately 6,450 broadsides catalogued to date.Upon completion of the cataloguing in the next few months,time will be devoted to editing and to the creation of a first-line index of broadside verse.

As we noted earlier, effective May 1, Carol Kanis resignedher position as head of the department. Mrs. Kanis continuesto work on a part-time basis, devoting her professional energyto the American Broadsides Project and to the Name AuthorityCooperative Cataloguing Program. Alan Degutis, senior cata-loguer of the NAIP Project, replaced her as department headbut continues his previous responsibilities with NAIP on areduced schedule.

The Department of Newspapers and Serials was one of thefew departments not to experience major personnel changesthis year, and it continues its busy workload with Joyce Tracy,curator; Audrey Zook, periodicals curatorial assistant; andDennis Laurie, newspapers curatorial assistant. The News-paper Project moved along smoothly in its second year underJoseph Macmanus, senior cataloguer, and Martha Gunnarson,Anne Moore, and Susan J. Wolfe, cataloguers. Joyce Tracy isproject director.

Purchases remained a major factor in increasing the period-icals collection, while gifts once again were important in in-


creasing holdings, with twenty-seven newspaper titles pur-chased and ninety-eight received as gifts. Sixty-six periodicaltitles were purchased, eighteen titles were added to our sub-scription list, and thirty-one titles were received as gifts. Asusual for the past few years, newspapers donated by Dr. Ste-phen A. Goldman and his friends have been of great interest.The University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire His-torical Society, and the Alabama State Library were also gen-erous donors. Other institutional benefactors included Dart-mouth College, the Sheldon Museum, Harvard University, theHistorical Society of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette College.Several individuals provided gifts as well. Two importantpurchases were the Baltimore Price Current for 1803-07 andthe J^ew Tork Public Advertiser for the latter part of 1812,which filled in that year for the Society.

Our CONSER Newspaper Cataloguing Project of the UnitedStates Newspaper Program has entered over 4,500 recordsinto the OCLC data base, including newspapers of the followingstates: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut,Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts,Nebraska, New Mexico, New Hampshire, North Dakota,Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,Vermont,Washington,Wyoming, and the Virgin Islands. Thestaff are now working on newspapers from Iowa, Illinois, Ken-tucky, New York, and West Virigina. It is clear that we haveattained the main goals of this first grant. Application wasmade to NEH and provisionally approved for a renewal grantfor 1985-87 to finish entering records and or holdings forthe remainder of the 14,500 pre-1877 titles in the Society'sholdings.

The activities of the Graphic Arts Department continue tobe diverse, reflecting the nature of the collections. The activi-ties that consume the time of the curator, Georgia Bumgardner,and her assistant, Audrey Zook, include processing photo-graphic orders, cataloguing sheet music and lithographs, acqui-


sitions work, assisting readers, and preparing exhibitions. Inaddition, Mrs. Bumgardner continues working on the Cata-logue of American Engravings Project.

Changes also occurred during the past year in the Catalogueof American Engravings Project. At the end of February, JudyL. Larson, project director, and her assistant, Mary Ann Pow-ers, departed because the cataloguing phase of the project hadbeen finished, as had much of the work required for enteringthe 17,000 entries into the AAS computer. The end result willbe a very rich data base as well as a tape which will be used inthe preparation of the printed catalogue.

Approximately 200 broadsides were added to our collectionin the past year. Of particular interest is a carrier's addressissued by the JVova-Scota Gazette about 1788. Other items ofinterest are a broadside describing the funeral procession inNew York honoring George Washington and a Louisiana im-print of 1816 dealing witb the slave trade. More than 200pieces of sheet music were acquired. David Tatham gave theSociety a copy of 'O Whistle and I'll Come to You my Lad'which was illustrated by Winslow Homer, as well as a groupof 36 other pieces dated between 1835 and 1875. There stillseems to be available a plentiful supply of music printed before1825 and the Society continues to concentrate on acquiringmusic from that early period. Several excellent prints were alsoacquired during the year.

Mrs. Bumgardner continues to serve as chairman of the Artand Architecture Program Committee of the Research LibrariesGroup. She was on the advisory committee of the 1984 DublinSeminar on itinerancy and presented a paper on the early careerof Ethan Allen Greenwood, a Massachusetts portrait painter,based on his memorandum books housed in the Society's manu-scripts department. In February she spoke at the New YorkPublic Library on three American literary illustrators—DavidClaypoole Johnston, F. O. C. Darley, and Augustus Hoppin.


Also, she prepared a segment of the Grolier Club CentennialExhibition devoted to the club's publications.

The regular work of the conservation department continuedthroughout the past year, in addition to which the staff wereactive in the implementation of the disaster plan that had beendeveloped the previous year. Disaster training of a differentsort took place at Assumption College in August. The Massa-chusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities funded a two-dayworkshop on disaster training for librarians. Directed by ourhead of conservation, Richard Baker, forty-eight librariansfrom seventeen institutions took part in a simulated disaster.The activities included demonstrations of fire extinguishers,washing mud from books, and freezing, sorting, and dryingthousands of wet library materials. The exercise generatedtwo newspaper articles and a clip on the Boston Channel 7evening news.

In addition, Richard Baker developed a method of culturingmold from books to determine the effectiveness of fumigation.His article describing the method appeared in the July issue ofthe Abbey J^ewsletter.

The Readers' Services Department experienced major per-sonnel changes with the promotion of Nancy Burkett and theresignation of Kathleen Major. Keith Arbour, a former em-ployee of the Society who had left us for the graduate programin bibliography and editorial method at the University of Kentin England, returned on September 1, 1984, to be the newdepartment head. Readership statistics grew slightly abovethose of a year ago. During 1983-84, 1,023 readers were reg-istered. They made 4,289 research visits, and the staff pagednearly 21,400 items for them. Thus, the acceleration over thepast five years in reader usage persisted, but staff members andvolunteers managed to continue preparation of checklists andfinding aids. During Mrs. Major's leave, the Manuscripts De-partment has received the assistance of Dianne Rugh, whose


efficiency and friendly helpfulness have been outstanding. Anew curator of manuscripts, Barbara Simmons, project archi-vist at MIT, will join the AAS staff in December 1984.

We acquired twenty-three new collections of individualmanuscripts, including a wonderful letter of James FenimoreCooper, dated February 25, 1832. Addressed to Armand Car-rel, editor of Le JsTational, it contains a refutation of LouisSaulnier's charges that the cost of government for the UnitedStates was greater than that of any other country. Sizableadditions were made to the Papers of the Green Family ofWorcester, given by Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Wolcott.

Dr. Robert G. Neuhardt of West Boylston recently gave theSociety a fine collection of papers of Congressman GineryTwichell (1811-83) who was known as the 'unrivalled expressrider.' The Society will incorporate these papers into its exis-ting Twichell manuscript collection. One of Twichell's earlyventures was the establishment of a daily line of coaches be-tween Boston and Brattleboro. He also bolstered his businessby securing important mail contracts from the U.S. govern-ment. In 1847 he joined the Boston and Worcester Railwayand became its president in 1857. Later, he served as presidentofthe Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, andthe Boston, Barre, and Gardner Railroad Corporation. Twich-ell was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in1864 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from1867 until 1873 as a representative from Massachusetts. Thepapers given to the Society by Dr. Neuhardt provide excellentdocumentation of the enterprise of railroad operation duringthe mid-nineteenth century. They include Twichell's businessdiaries and notes, correspondence (e.g., letters concerning thetransportation of troops during the Civil War and letters ofCharles Sumner, as well as a copy of a letter from AbrahamLincoln to Twichell), receipts, ledgers, records pertaining tohis political career, deeds, contracts, family letters, and noteson the history of various railroads. The collection also includes


lithographs, flyers, broadsides, appointments, railroad passes,schedules, patents, and pamphlets, all of which further illumi-nate the life of a successful railroad entrepreneur and politicalfigure. The papers have been arranged by Kathleen A. Major,keeper of manuscripts. The Society's existing collection ofGinery Twichell Papers, ca. 1832-82, was given to AAS in1886 by Twichell's widow and daughter.

Also, we acquired the highly important records of the North-ampton Association of Education and Industry, the gift of RossW. Beales, Jr. In 1947, Alice Easton McBee wrote in her studyof the Northampton Association of Education and Industry,From Utopia to Florence: The Story of a Transcendentalist Com-munity in JVorthampton, Mass., 1830-1852, that 'every effortto rediscover them [|the manuscript records of the association^has proven fruitless and it seems almost certain that they, likeso many historical documents before them, were classified as"rubbish cluttering up an attic" . . . and vanished in the zeal ofa New England housecleaning.' She was wrong, for the recordsof the Northampton Association of Education and Industrywere discovered recently by Professor Beales at an auction.

The records, covering the years from 1836 to 1853, consistof seven folio volumes and concern the founding and operationof the Utopian socialist community that flourished from 1841to 1846 in Northampton, Massachusetts. A contemporary ofBrook Farm, the association was a middle-class experiment intranscendentalism and Fourierism. The association stressedthe importance of productive labor as a duty, enjoyment of thefruits of labor, self-improvement, racial equality and equalityof the sexes, freedom of worship, individual dignity, and strongfamily relations. It decried the warlike atmosphere in the worldand the evils of poverty and ignorance. The association wasshort-lived but resulted in the development of Florence, Mas-sachusetts, a thriving industrial town.

The association, which grew out of the Northampton SilkCompany, was comprised of a stock company and an industrial


community. Membership was based on the purchase of stock.Among notables active in the association were William LloydGarrison, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. The rec-ords of the association include a membership register, day-books listing the association's business transactions, recordsof proceedings accompanied by printed copies of the associa-tion's preamble and principles, a laborers' book of accountswith individuals and companies who dealt with the asso-ciation's various departments, and a letterbook of outgoingcorrespondence with comments on the group's activities andprinciples. The rediscovered records are a valuable source ofinformation concerning the association's business activities,the people that were drawn to it, and contemporary views of itsprinciples and purposes.

The Northampton Association ceased to exist after only afew years, owing in part to internal tensions and unwise finan-cial planning. However, like Brook Farm, the association re-flected America's fascination with reform via Utopian socialismduring the mid-nineteenth century.

Mention must be made of the contributions to AAS of Don-ald K. Strader and Eleanor S. Adams. Without Mr. Strader'sconstant attention to the details of managing our buildings—now numbering five—and grounds, our work would come to agrinding halt and our collections would be in jeopardy. With-out Mrs. Adams's diligent management and thorough knowl-edge of our affairs, so many things would fall through thecracks of our institutional memory that our business wouldsoon come to a staggering halt.

John Hench, the associate director for research and publica-tion, reports that his division in the past fiscal year, 1983-84,was busier than the very busy 1982-83. Five weeks into thenew fiscal year, 1984-85, it is clear that we are well along onanother escalating slope of activity. This heightened level ofactivity is, for the most part, healthy and stimulating.

M. Sheila McAvey, our assistant editor, joined the staff in


September 1983, replacing Jeri Stolk, who resigned. She holdsa Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Massa-chusetts, Amherst. Much of her time, and that of the divisionhead, was spent on various phases of the very complex editorialwork on Hannah French's Seven Essays on American Book-binding and Richard Crawford's Bibliography of American Sa-cred Music Imprints Through 1810. Several other publicationprojects are in varying stages of production or discussion. Geor-gia Bumgardner has nearly completed the task of preparingfor publication the papers given at the American print confer-ence held in Worcester in 1976. Another project that likelywill go forward in 1984-85 is a reprint of the 1972 exhibitioncatalogue of Michael Papantonio's bindings, together with thelist of items in the Papantonio collection now at AAS that ap-peared recently in the Proceedings. Thirdly, we have agreedwith Stephen Botein, an NEH fellow at AAS this past year anda member of the history faculty at Michigan State University,to edit and write an introduction for a reprinting of the six con-troversial issues of the JsTew-Tork Weekly Journal that causedits printer, John Peter Zenger, to be tried for seditious libel.This will be published to commemorate the 350th anniversaryin 1985 of Zenger's famed trial, at which Professor Botein willdeliver a public lecture.

The publication of the Proceedings went routinely during theyear. We now enjoy a rich choice of articles for acceptance forpublication, while the development of our Program in the His-tory of the Book in American Culture will give us the oppor-tunity to make the Proceedings the venue for the excellent worknow being written in that field.

During the past year, the Readex Microprint Corporationpublished a microfilm series of New England women's diariesselected from our manuscript collections. We have had discus-sions with Readex staiFmembers on matters relating to collab-oration on other projects, the most pressing of which has to dowith the need for full subject analysis for catalogue records of


North American imprints. Discussions will be pursued withReadex, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Li-brary of Congress, and the Association of Research Librarieson the most economical way to accomplish this.

Several important milestones for the North American Im-prints Program were reached during 1985-84. During theyear, the NAIP staff completed the recataloguing of all ourpreviously catalogued pre-1801 North American Imprints atAAS, neared the completion of all of phase one, and made abeginning on phase two. Moreover, the second NEH grant insupport of NAIP began on October 1, 1983; the first grantexpired, with exhaustion of funds, on March 9, 1984. Our goalfor the first grant was to catalogue 17,250 imprints. By theexpiration date, the staff had completed 17,501 records. Tothis figure should be added another 985 records describingalmanacs and state documents held by AAS, but not previouslycatalogued, and another 2,050 records describing originalbroadsides held by AAS, making a grand total of 20,536 first-phase records created. Additionally, the broadside project staffcreated another 1,750 records based on photocopies at AAS,which effectively serve as NAIP phase two records, whichdescribe holdings of other libraries.

The first part of phase two was the beginning of the alpha-betization of thousands of records contributed to NAIP byother libraries. Our efforts to solicit records from otber librarieswere aided by the work of our colleagues on the ESTC/NAstaff at Louisiana State University.

The April report of the Council contains a list of the fellowsappointed in this year. The pool of candidates for both short-term and NEH fellowships was especially strong this year. TheSociety's research associates' program continued to be a usefuladjunct to the fellowship program and five scholars were inresidence at some time during the year: George A. Billias ofClark University, William J. Gilmore of Stockton State Col-


lege, Kent P. Ljungquist of Worcester Polytechnic Institute,Harlow W. Sheidley of the University of Connecticut, andFrançoise Basch of the University of Paris. AAS received arenewal grant to support our participation in the NEH Pro-gram for Fellowships at Centers for Advanced Study. Thegrant is for a two-year period and totals $101,940.

Five sessions ofthe long-running AAS Seminar in AmericanPolitical and Social History were scheduled during 1983-84.The speakers were Christopher Clark ( University of York,England), J. R. Pole (St. Catherine's College, Oxford Uni-versity), Merritt Roe Smith (MIT), James Hoopes (BabsonCollege and AAS), and Stephen Botein (Michigan State Uni-versity and AAS). A new seminar, the Seminar in AmericanLiterary History, was inaugurated last spring with a well-received paper by AAS member Sacvan Bercovitch of HarvardUniversity. Professor Mason Lowance assisted in the develoj)-ment of this seminar, which will be continued with three ses-sions during the 1984-85 academic year.

Our series of informal lunchtime colloquia continued duringthe past year. Fifteen such events were held. The speakerswere Edward Countryman ( University of Warwick and AAS),Dale Cockrell (Middlebury College and AAS), James Moran( Worcester County Mechanics Association ), Ian Eaves ( Towerof London), Charles Fanning (Bridge water State College andAAS), Paul Raabe (Herzog August Bibliothek), Kent L-jung-quist ( Worcester Polytechnic Institute and AAS), Judy Larson(AAS), Georgia Bumgardner (AAS), Susan Wolfe (AAS),Don Fehrenbacher ( Stanford University ), David Jaffee ( Smith-sonian Institution), Lisa Koenigsberg (Yale University andAAS ), John Hench ( AAS ), and Jennifer Monaghan ( BrooklynCollege).

Last September, Dr. J. Worth Estes presented a fascinatinglecture to a large audience on George Washington's medicalhistory. In December, Dale Cockrell lectured on the Hutchin-

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son Family Singers. In March, Melanie So vine lectured on andsang the hymns of the American Primitive Baptists.

The most complex public event of the year was undoubtedlyour production of David McKay's opera, Bathsheba Spooner,with libretto by James Hensel and stage direction by WilliamSigalis. Postponed from the previous spring, the opera receivedtwo public performances before sellout audiences on October7 and 8, in addition to a dress rehearsal for AAS staff and familymembers of the cast and orchestra. This production was fundedin large part from funds granted to AAS by the MassachusettsCouncil on the Arts and Humanities.

A fourth meeting of the directors and other staff membersfrom AAS, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library,and the Folger Shakespeare Library was held during the yearat the Folger Library in Washington. Although the group hadsucceeded in drafting an elaborate blueprint for future cooper-ation among the four institutions, the momentum toward amajor grant application to support these activities faltered. Itis likely, however, that more concrete, if more modest, activi-ties will ensue from further discussion during the presentfiscal year.

Much time was taken up during the year by activities relatedto our new Program in the History of the Book in AmericanCulture. Considerable progress was made toward the develop-ment of this Program during the year, even if that progresswas slow and at times frustrating. The Program chairman,David D. Hall, professor of history at Boston University,continued to give helpful counsel during the year. Concreteachievements realized during the year include the publicationof the first three issues of the Program's newsletter, entitledThe Book; the presentation of two public lectures, one beingthe first annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture, given byProfessor Hall, entitled 'On Native Ground: From the Historyof Printing to the History of the Book,' and the other being atalk by Paul Raabe on the activities of the Herzog August


Bibliothek in Germany; the drafting of a successful NEH grantapplication for a 'needs-and-opportunity conference' on thehistory of the book in American culture. The Program willremain a major commitment for this department and this insti-tution during the forthcoming year and for many years there-after.

During 1983-84 the Society hosted, in close succession, twosizable historical conferences. The first, on March 51, was theannual Conference on Massachusetts History.Two weeks later,we played host to the semiannual meeting of the New EnglandHistorical Association. Both conferences made full use of Anti-quarian Hall and the Goddard-Daniels house. Those attendingboth conferences praised our facilities and hospitality.

This past year was the second full year of operation of theGoddard-Daniels house. The administration of the house is byno means problem-free, but so far the benefits derived from thehouse remain worth the effort we expend. The rooms of thehouse were occupied by eighty-four persons for a total of 1,355nights, for a 74.2 percent occupancy rate. Ninety-two meetingsor other events took place in the Elmarion Room or diningrooms of the house during 1983-84.

During 1983-84, Mr. Hench attended meetings of theAmerican Council of Learned Societies. His membership onthe executive committee of the Conference of Secretaries ex-pired. Mr. Hench represented AAS at the April meeting in LosAngeles of the Organization of American Historians. He re-mains active in the American Printing History Association andwas elected the chairman of its board for a two-year term. Mr.Hench was appointed to a committee of the BibliographicalSociety of America on bibliographical projects.

To use the analogy of the farmer and his harvest, our devel-opment officer, Mary V. C. Callahan, seems to have had a yearof sowing rather than reaping. The routine work on the sixannual fund drives went on as usual, as did the public relationstasks and the supervision of special events and tours. But her


paramount concern has been for the Isaiah Thomas Fund whichmoved into its second (or national) phase in October 1983.The momentum of the drive has been slowed by the prepara-tion of a videotape describing the Society and by a number ofpreliminary meetings which have been held in major cities,laying the groundwork for later, formal presentations. Never-theless, $383,340 was added to the fund in new pledges andcontributions from 103 individuals and corporations. The Fundnow stands at $3,964,764.

A new committee has been added to the Isaiah Thomas Fundroster. This is the Memorial Gift Committee. Henry S. Streeterhas agreed to serve as chairman. Mr. Streeter, whose fatherwas a president of the Society, will contact the relatives ofofficers with a view towards establishing named funds honor-ing their family member. Henry B. Dewey has assumed thechairmanship of the Deferred Gift Committee in the stead ofhis brother, Francis H. Dewey III. Three new funds have beenadded to the Society's endowment. Acquisitions funds wereestablish by Roderick D. Stinehour and by the children ofEdward D. and Kathleen D. Crowley. A fund to support gene-alogical work was established by Dr. William Henry Waller.Additions were made to the Hall J. and Kate B. Peterson Fel-lowship Fund, the Geneviève R. Ireland Fund, and to the Rod-erick Stinehour Book Fund. A sum of $36,500 was receivedfrom a trust made under the will of our late member HermannP. Riccius. Mr. Riccius died in 1965, at which time the Societyreceived a substantial bequest from his estate.

As the second phase of the Isaiah Thomas Fund progressedthrough the fall of 1983, it became clear that although AAS isrecognized internationally by scholars the Society is not wellknown to the general public outside the Northeast or in the cor-porate world. Therefore, Robert Cushman, Phase II chairman,suggested that a short videotape be made to briefly outlinethe history, collections, and work of the Society. Discussionswere held with Dean M. Wood, director of corporate adver-


tising at the Norton Company, who advised us to use a com-mercial producer for the production of the videotape. A grantfrom the Fuller Eoundation of $35,500 was awarded in Apriland the firm. Envision of Boston, was engaged to produce thetape, which was completed at the end of July. The film wasnarrated by AAS member Walter Cronkite. The principalfunction of the videotape is to dramatize to individuals who arenot familiar with the Society what we are and what we do. Itwill also be used in-house for orientation of new staff membersand fellows. We believe it does these things very well.

A significant accomplishment in the year's development ac-tivities was meeting conditions of the Special Initiative Grantfrom the National Endowment for the Humanities a full yearbefore our deadline. Contributions to the Society for this pur-pose from October 1, 1982, until June 11, 1984, came from awide variety of sources. Terms of the grant required that weobtain three privately donated dollars for each Eederal dollar.The total increase in the endowment funds of the Society re-sulting from the Special Initiative Grant was $1,625,788. Ofthis amount, $286,666 is dedicated to the support of acquisi-tions, %^55,9S6 is applied towards the expense of conservationof research materials, $709,155 will help support the staff inthe library curatorial departments, and $ 174,031 will contrib-ute towards the support of administrative personnel and ex-penses in the research and publication division.

Annual giving in fiscal year 1983-84 amounted to $ 104,813.This represents an increase of 8.8 percent over the previousyear's contributions of $92,259, but it is still $17,534 underthe record giving of fiscal year 1980-81. In addition to theannual fund, current gifts made in kind or in cash for specificpurposes or purchases amounted to $100,256.

Donald R. Melville served as chairman of the CorporateGiving Eund, Kenneth Nebenzahl of the appeal to antiquarianbookmen, and Harold T. Miller of the Printers and PublishersEund. The annual letter to readers was written by Alden T.


Vaughan. These appeals resulted in gifts ( which are incorpo-rated into our annual fund) in the amount of $14,532.

The seventh year of the Worcester Association of MutualAid in Detecting Thieves was highly successful with a Christ-mas tea party held on December 4, 1983, and the annual meet-ing held on January 14, 1984. The income from the Christmastea was spent on dinnerware for the Goddard-Daniels house. Amajor snowstorm prevented many guests from attending butprepayment made it possible to purchase a gross of place set-tings in the 'Athena' pattern. The annual meeting, chaired byWarren C. Lane, Jr., took place in Antiquarian Hall. WendellGarrett, editor and publisher of The Magazine Antiques, gavean illustrated talk entitled 'By Hammer and Hand, All Arts doStand: The New England Craftsman.'

The current Pursuing Committee members include: clerk,William O. Pettit, Jr., and Elaine Beals, Karl L. Briel, MaryV. C. Callahan, John W. Curtis, Glenn C. DeMailie, O. Vin-cent Gustafson, Robert P. Hallock, Jr., Margaret Heald, Johnand Marianne S. Jeppson, Robert A. and Minna F. Johnson,P. Warren Keating, Sallie C. Knowlton, Warren C. Lane, Jr.,Saundra B. Lane, Paul R. O'Connell, Jr., Cynthia N. Pitcher,Glendon M. Pomeroy, Ann-Cathrine Rapp, Penelope B. Rock-well, Marcus A. McCorison, Duane T. Sargisson, Arlen Sjo-sten, and Hope H. Spear. Donations from Thief Detectors tothe annual fund amounted to $64,756, a considerable increaseover the previous year. The gifts from this group augmentannual giving to a very significant degree and provide a groupof enthusiastic supporters to the Society's work.

Four awards were made to the American Antiquarian Soci-ety by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanitiesin fiscal year 1983—84. The first was made in conjunction withthe Worcester Business Committee on the Arts. The councilmatched one dollar for every dollar of new or increased contri-butions to AAS from members of the local business commu-nity. The grant of $9,775 has been included in our annual


giving total. For the third consecutive year, AAS received aMerit Aid award which assists us with predictable and stablefinancing. Other council grants were given for conservingeighty-two documents from the period of the American Revo-lution and for the planning and execution of the disaster work-shop held in August. Total grants from the council made toAAS amounted to $57,315.

The development officer and the director have been workingwith 'The Majors' (cultural institutions in Massachusetts withbudgets of more than f 1,000,000) and with the MassachusettsCouncil on the Arts and Humanities in an effort to achieveequitable, statewide public funding for cultural institutions.Central to the discussion have been line item allocations madeby the Massachusetts legislature to selected institutions in theBoston area. This matter and questions on the administrationof the arts lottery money and the appropriation of Councilfunds to scientific institutions seem no closer to resolution thanat the first meeting in March.

Solicitations for the United Way come under the aegis of theDevelopment Office. Giving by staff members has increasedsteadily from $952 in 1980 to 11,934 in 1983 and the Societyhas received a 'Thoughtful Donor' award for the past threeyears.

A word must be said for the development office staff. Weexpress thanks to Marie Bengtson, whose typing skills arewithout equal, and to Ann-Cathrine Rapp, whose unfailinggood humor makes life considerably easier for all staff members.

But, should we identify in this report any particular col-leagues on the staff, the Council must also give to all ourco-workers our profound thanks. The Council observes thatthe Society has taken its place among the nation's leadingresearch libraries. If that is so, it is because our staff membershave used to the fullest the Society's slender financial resourcesand their own outstanding intellectual ones.

We are proud of each member of our staff. We are honored


that they give so fully of their loyalty and energies. We thankthem.

The Council is grateful, also, to all members and friends ofAAS who give financial and moral support to our work. With-out staff, members, readers, and friends, the American Anti-quarian Society, even with its great library, would be fornaught. Please accept our profound thanks.

Marcus A. McCorison

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