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Gen. Alexander Smyth, 1811-12, on military affairs; and from Gen. Joseph Bradley Varnum, 1808-1815, on political affairs.

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The Stevenson papers represent a generous donation from Stevenson Mrs. Mary W. Stevenson Colston, of Cincinnati, the daughter

of John W. Stevenson and the granddaughter of Andrew Stevenson.

Andrew Stevenson was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1823 to 1834, and Speaker of the House from 1827 to 1834. From 1834 to 1841 he was minister at the Court of St. James. His papers relate chiefly to his activities while resident in London, and are especially rich in autographic specimens from famous characters, political and literary, of the period, including an autograph poem of Wordsworth's and an unpublished poem by Thomas Moore.

John W. Stevenson was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1857 to 1861, a delegate to the Philadelphia Union Convention of 1866, and governor of Kentucky from 1867 to 1871, when he entered the United States Sen ate, serving for one term. He was a leader among the conservative Democrats of his time, and his correspondence with other public men throws important light upon political history from immediately preceding the civil war up to his death in 1886. Owing to the recent date of many of the letters and the fact that some of the writers are still alive they are not open to unrestricted examination.

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Dr. Moses Waddel's diary, 1824-1826, with miscellaneous Dr. Moses Wadsermon briefs, is a gift from Miss Elizabeth H. West. At the time the diary was written Doctor Waddel was president of the University of Georgia. He was the preceptor of John C. Calhoun, Hugh S. Legaré, James Louis Petigru, George MacDuffie, and other leading characters of South Carolina, and was regarded as the father of classical education in Georgia and South Carolina. His diary is an interesting record of his life for the time it covers and shows his methods of sermon making.

Burton Harrison collection

Jefferson Davis letters

Margaret Bayard Smith papers

The De Berdt letter-book

The Burton Harrison collection was described in last year's report. Since then Mr. Harrison has made important additions to it of letters of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, and Alexander Porter (a Senator from Louisiana), and notes of conversations with James Madison (1827) by Jesse Burton Harrison; correspondence of Burton N. Harrison, relative to the defense of Jefferson Davis, 1866-67; and letters showing the disposition made of the specie in the Confederate treasury after the surrender in 1865.

Mr. C. W. Higgins, of Chicago, has given two important original letters and copies of eight letters from Jefferson Davis to his friend, Gen. Crafts W. Wright, relating to Mr. Davis's capture at the close of the civil war and the charges against him (1876–1878).

The papers of Margaret Bayard Smith have been given by the heirs of her daughter, Miss Margaret Bayard Smith: Mrs. Harold Dillingham, of Honolulu, Mrs. Baldwin Wood, and the Misses Alice and Henrietta Smith, of San Francisco. Mrs. Smith came to Washington in 1800 with her husband, Samuel Harrison Smith, the founder of the National Intelligencer, and was an active leader in the life of the city until her death in 1844. During all of this time she carried on a voluminous correspondence, chiefly with her sisters, Mrs. Jane Kilpatrick, of New Jersey, and Mrs. Anna Boyd, of New York, describing people and events in the political and social life of the city. As her pen was ready and her observation keen, the letters, of which there are several thousands, constitute a rich mine of information of that intimate personal character which is usually so difficult for an historical investigator to obtain.

Mr. and Mrs. Gherardi Davis, of New York, have presented the original letter-book of Dennys (or Dennis) De Berdt, 1765-1770, covering nearly the whole period of his agency in England for the colonial legislature of Massachusetts. Except for a few letters of De Berdt in the Massachusetts

Historical Society, it is believed that none of his correspondence has hitherto been known, and Mr. and Mrs. Davis's gift is a solid contribution to colonial history.

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Through the generous interest of Judge J. Lawrence The Crallé paCampbell, of Bedford City, Va., in behalf of himself and his brothers, Richard K. Campbell, Esq., chief of the Division of Naturalization, Department of Commerce and Labor, and Henry T. Campbell, Esq., of Norfolk, Va., grandsons of Richard K. Crallé, the Library is in possession of a body of some eighty papers left by Mr. Crallé, pertaining to the history of the War of 1812, the Mexican war, and the efforts to nominate Calhoun for the Presidency. Mr. Crallé was the intimate confidential friend of Calhoun, his chief clerk when he was Secretary of State in 1844, and the editor of his works after his death. He gathered material for a biography of Calhoun, but, except for a fragment among the papers now presented to the Library, the manuscript was lost. The letters are from Dixon H. Lewis, Senator from Alabama, Duff Green, Abel P. Upshur, and others.

What may be termed an enlargement of the field of activity of the Division has been its efforts to obtain material throwing light upon the development of the religious sects in the United States. The Library does not desire to secure the records of individual churches-these are properly local historical archives-but to collect the papers of churchmen who have played a part in the introduction or upbuilding of religious sects in various sections of the country is a legitimate undertaking for a library concerned with the conservation of the records of American history. Besides the Waddel Diary already mentioned, the more important accessions have been:

Rev. Hezekiah

The New England Baptist Library Association, of Boston, Smith's papers having intimated to the Library that certain of its manuscripts pertaining to Baptist activity during the Revolution might, under satisfactory arrangement, be transferred

The life of Rev. Moses Hoge, D.D.

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to this Library, negotiations were entered into which resulted in the acquisition by the Library of the diaries, letters, order books, and sermons of Rev. Hezekiah Smith, D. D., of Haverhill, Mass., a chaplain in the army during the Revolution; the papers covering the years 1762 to 1805, and throwing important light especially upon the Baptist movement in the army during the Revolution.

Moses Hoge was a soldier in the Revolution; then became a pupil of Rev. James Waddel in Virginia, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Virginia, 1781. He was a school teacher, and from 1806 until his death, in 1852, president of Hampden Sidney College. He published an answer to Paine's "Age of Reason "in 1799. His son, John Blair Hoge, also a Presbyterian minister, wrote his life, a manuscript of 230 pages, of foolscap size, which has not been published, and contains a great deal of valuable information concerning the development of Presbyterian education in Virginia. The manuscript was acquired from John Blair Hoge's grandson, Rev. Peyton H. Hoge, of Pewee Valley, Kentucky.

Through Mr. J. P. MacLean, the valuable collection of Shaker manuscripts already in the Library's possession has been greatly enriched by 51 volumes of notebooks, experiences, records, etc.

The Baird pa- Rev. Samuel John Baird retired from the Presbyterian ministry in 1865, moved to Virginia, and wrote much thereafter on Presbyterian ecclesiastical polity, and was prominently identified with Presbyterian doctrinal discussions. Upward of 600 pieces of his correspondence have been acquired by the Library, being chiefly letters from Presbyterian ministers on church affairs and doctrinal questions.

Transfers

The transfers from other government offices during the year include twenty-four letters from public characters (1795-1850) deposited by the Department of the Interior, and what is to be known as The House of Representatives Collection, the completion of which is not yet accomplished.

The establishment of The House of Representatives collection is an important step, which may lead to future accessions of great interest to scholars. It resulted from a feeling by the House of Representatives that certain of its old records, not having a present-day value and yet having great interest and value to historical students, could be more usefully preserved in the Library than in its own archives. The House resolution, introduced by Hon. James F. O'Connell, of Massachusetts, and amended by Hon. Francis Burton Harrison, of New York, reads as follows:

Resolved, That there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House, under the direction of the Clerk, an amount not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars for the better preservation of the early files of the House, consisting of original manuscripts; said files to be classified, re-jacketed, and indorsed in such manner as in the judgment of the Clerk will insure their safe-keeping and accessibility. And the Clerk of the House is hereby authorized to deposit with the Librarian of Congress all original letters and papers of historical value for preservation in the Library of Congress as a part of the files of the House of Representatives subject to removal or withdrawal only by order of the House, a list of same and receipt therefor to be communicated to the House and published in the Journal and in the Congressional Record; and the selection of the documents to be transferred to the Library of Congress shall be made under the direction and supervision of the Chief of the Bureau of Manuscripts of the Library of Congress.-House Resolution, no. 403, March 5, 1910.

A list of the records which were the subject of the resolution was drawn up in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and submitted to the Chief of the Division of Manuscripts of the Library, by whom such docu

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