or controversial nature. There are among them some few pamphlets of early poetry."

b) Conn. State Library, Hartford, reports the following important collections:

Elizabethan City Library, New Haven, Conn.; Pequot Library, Southport, Conn.; Watkinson Library, Hartford; Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Conn.; Trinity College Library, Hartford, Conn.; Case Memorial Library, Hartford, Conn.; Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Conn.; New London Historical Society, New London, Conn.

c) Yale University Library, New Haven

“Mr. Owen F. Aldis, B.A., 1874, established the 'Yale Collection of American Literature' by presenting his unique collection of first and important editions of American belles-lettres. Colonial and Revolutionary literature is well represented by Franklin, André, Evans, Paine, Markoe, C. B. Browne, Freneau, Dunlap and many others. Of Bryant there are 125 items; the collection of editions of Cooper is probably the best in existence. Emerson and Bret Harte are practically complete. Of Holmes items there are some 200; of Hawthorne and Lowell items few are wanting. The Irving collection is complete. The collection of Poes is notable, as it contains copies of Al Aaraaf,' and of the 'Murders in the Rue Morgue.' Whitman is unusually complete; Willis and Halleck are fully represented, as well as the Southern school. The minor writers are also very fully represented in the collection. An important addition was made to the collection by an anonymous donor, who presented upwards of a thousand volumes of American poetry, many of them presentation copies, secured from the library of the late Edmund Clarence Stedman, B.A., 1853. Dr. Gerard E. Jensen, B.A., 1907, also presented several editions of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney's works. The entire collection promises to be one of national importance and already numbers some 7,000 items."

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

a) Library of Congress

"This Library is one of the principal resources of those engaged in extensive research in this general field. The aim has been broad, not confined to particular periods of particular sections.

"We have original issues of a goodly number of Cotton Mather's writings and reprint editions of others.

“Our early American imprints prior to 1751 number perhaps 850 titles. We have the Southern Literary Messenger and earlier literary periodicals including a respectable number of the short-lived eighteenth century magazines.

"We understand that there will be published shortly a Union List of the Eighteenth Century periodicals by the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., the work of William Beer and Clarence Brigham. The Library of Congress collection of Eighteenth Century periodicals will be found listed in it.

"Our collection of early Nineteenth Century general periodicals is listed in A Check List of American Newspapers in the Library of Congress,' Washington, Government Printing Office, 1901. A list of additions has not been printed. Our collection is exceptionally complete."

GEORGIA

a) State Library, Atlanta

"The State Library has a collection of Georgiana of daily ircreasing interest and value. One section is made up of biographies and reminiscences of Georgians, more particularly of public men and leaders of religious thought.

"There are a number of histories of the earlier periods of the State, including McCall, Stevens, and Jones and a collection of poetical works, fiction, and miscellaneous writings.

"We possess the Mary DeRenne Memorial Library which contains many rare items of colonial literature, i. e., narratives of expeditions and reports of investigations made in the Carolinas and Georgia in the time of the early settlers."

b) Wymberley Jones de Renne Library, Savannah, Wormsloe

c) Georgia Historical Society Library, Savannah, Ga.

d) Library of the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

e) Oglethorpe University

has Whitefield's Account for Orphan House in Georgia, 1741; Whitefield's Journal at Savannah, 1739; London Magazine, 1732 (gives a brief account of Georgia).

ILLINOIS

a) Newberry Library, Chicago

"We go less intensively into American literature than into English literature, due to the fact that the University of Chicago has a special fund for the purchase of books on American literature, and it is the policy of the libraries in Chicago not to duplicate each other's holdings more than is absolutely necessary.

"We have many of the works of Cotton Mather and a complete file of the Southern Literary Messenger, and many other early American magazines. We have in our Edward E. Ayer Collection on the North American Indian an exceptionally good collection of Ameri

cana.

"We have checklists of special collections, such as:

Narratives of Captivity among the Indians of North America; American Revolutionary War Pamphlets; General Works (Polygraphy) (some of our early American magazines would be here listed); Documentary Material, relating to State Constitutional Conventions."

b) University of Chicago Library

has a special fund for the purchase of books pertaining to American literature

c) The Chicago Public Library

Especially rich in that branch of Americana comprising the history, exploration, and settlement of the Middle West. Our collection of travel narratives, including the standard reprints beginning with the Jesuit Relations and including, also, original editions of early western travel, e. g., Lewis and Clark, and the famous British travelers since the Revolution, is very complete. We have, also, many of the scarce items of the 'Covered Wagon' period.”

d) Lincoln Library, Springfield

“The Library has some miscellaneous old magazines, including a long run of the Gentleman's Magazine, but in rather poor condition. Nothing unusual in poetry, and only at this late date beginning a special Lincoln collection. The State Historical Library has long collected Lincolniana."

e) Mr. Wm. S. Mason, 1401 Ridge Ave., Evanston, has a collection of Franklin.

INDIANA

a) Indiana State Library, Indianapolis

"The making of a list of our early imprints would take more time than our staff can give to it."

b) Indiana University, Bloomington

IOWA

R. L. Rusk has been making a list of early imprints west of the Allegheny Mountains up to and including 1840.

a) Iowa State Library, Des Moines

Coggeshall, William T., Poets and Poetry of the West, 1860; Gallagher, W. D. ed., Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, 1841. A printed list of periodicals embodied in Report of 1916, pp. 157-194.

KANSAS

a) Kansas State Library, Topeka

has much material on early Kansas history, the Santa Fe trail, etc.

KENTUCKY

a) Louisville Free Public Library

Confederate Collection (books and pamphlets on Confederate subjects); 300 Kentucky authors, including classified collection of clippings; Kentucky History Collection; also files of old Louisville newspapers.

b) Filson Club, Louisville: Kentucky History

LOUISIANA

a) New Orleans Public Library

“The New Orleans Public Library has a few Southern magazines. We have DeBow's Commercial Review, O. S., for Jan. 1846-July 1855, 1856-1858, 1860.

"We have a fairly good Louisiana historical collection and a good collection of Southern and Louisiana fiction."

MAINE

a) Bowdoin College, Brunswick

"Editions and translations of Longfellow and biographical critical essays, over 500 vols. Also books by Maine authors and about the State of Maine."

MARYLAND

a) Peabody Institute, Baltimore

"This is a reference Library of about 212,000 well-selected books for the use of students. It has a good representation of the writings of early American writers, and the Southern Literary Messenger and other early American magazines."

b) Johns Hopkins

"A small collection of Southern Literature."

c) The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

"Local history and bound newspapers. Visiting scholars will be welcomed."

d) Mrs. Frances Tazewell Redwood, 918 Madison Ave., Baltimore, has early American social letters.

MASSACHUSETTS

a) Boston Public Library

"It is hardly worth while to attempt any summary of our re

sources. You mention as examples the Southern Literary Messenger and the works of Cotton Mather. We have a complete set of the former and of the latter we have more than two hundred titles in editions published during his lifetime. In the Prince Library, consisting of some three thousand volumes collected by the Rev. Thomas Prince before his death in 1758, we have a somewhat unusual collection of early New England books; in fact the reverend collector styled his library The New England Library, and made a conscious attempt to gather all that was most important in New England literature and history up to the time of his death.

"The Artz Collection, which is in constant process of enlargement with the aid of a fund left for the purpose, consists of first editions of poetry and is especially strong in the work of the New England poets of the last century. The Twentieth Regiment Collection consists of works more or less closely connected with the history of the Civil War and contains a good deal of original material of interest. The Franklin Collection is being built up around the personality of Boston's most eminent son."

b) Boston Athenaeum

"We have such rare books and magazines as usually drift into an old library, but we do not make a special effort to collect material because it is rare or old.”

c) Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

"This Library has copies of many rare books, including a good number of the works of the Mathers; also some of the early magazines. In the subjects, American drama and poetry, we may have a few titles which will be of service to you. We shall be happy to offer here every facility for research within our power in American Literature."

d) Cambridge Public Library

"First editions of our later Cambridge writers, like Longfellow, and complete file of Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1792 to date."

e) Harvard University Library, Cambridge

Has over 10,000 volumes classified as American Literature, but this includes less than half the number of volumes bearing on the subject, among which are publications of colonial times in tract volumes; the American Drama Collection, largely the gift of Evert J. Wendell; the collection of poetry presented to Longfellow; a similar portion of the libraries of J. R. Lowell, C. W. Eliot, T. W. Higginson, and Amy Lowell; publications of the Mather family; printed folklore accumulated by Professor Kittredge; material classified as "Theatre" instead of "Literature or "Drama "; etc. See also A. C. Potter's "Descriptive and Historical Notes on the Harvard Library," third ed. (1915), p. 42.