(Cin.) 1840-45; Western Farmer and Gardner, (Cin.) 1840-41; Western Literary Journal (Cin.) 1845; Western Literary Magazine (Cin.) 1845; Western Messenger, (Louisville, Ky. and Cin.) 1836-39; Western Monthly Magazine (Cin.) 1833-36; Western Monthly Review, (Cin.) 1828-30; Western People's Magazine, (Cin.) 1834; Western Quarterly Review, (Cin.) 1849-50; Western Review, (Lexington, Ky.) 1820-21; Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine, (Columbus) 1846.

OKLAHOMA

a) Tulsa Public Library

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Reports some valuable books on American Indians, including McKenney's Tour of the Lakes (1827) and his History of North American Indians, 3 vol. (1837)."

b) Personal libraries of Judge W. I. Williams, and Mr. Philip Kates, Tulsa.

PENNSYLVANIA

a) The Free Library of Philadelphia

Bulletins 8 and 9, lists of Serials in the Principal Libraries of Philadelphia, 1908, 1910; Hildeburn, Charles R. The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784 (1885), 2 vols.

b) The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

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Reports a collection of manuscripts covering almost all of American biography of importance. Among the manuscripts are to be found the plays of Richard Penn Smith and Watson's Annals of Philadelphia. We do not, however, make a specialty of securing the manuscript copies of the productions of these people, but rather tend towards letters interesting from their biographical standpoint. These, I should think, would run up into millions in this institution." Contains Collection of Pennsylvania imprints, 1685-1825, and Cassell Collection of Pennsylvania-German imprints.

c) Drexel Institute Library, Philadelphia

Has manuscripts of work by Bryant, Cooper, Lowell, Poe, etc.

d) University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia

"The library in American Literature has been built up in connection with the graduate and undergraduate courses in the subject during the last twenty years and contains adequate facilities for research. Among special collections are the Lamborn Collection of American Literature and the Clothier and Class of 1894 Collections of American Drama. The latter now includes the manuscripts of Robert Montgomery Bird and other playwrights. It was based on a collection of plays made for twenty-five years by a collector in

Philadelphia and has the complete works of Dunlap, Payne, Boker and other early playwrights, while it is constantly being added to by purchase of recent material. The historical material on the American theatre is believed to be complete, including Westcott's illustrated edition of Durang's unpublished History of the Philadel phia Stage in five volumes."

e) Swarthmore College, Swarthmore

"The Library of the Friends Historical Society, in the Library of Swarthmore College, has an excellent collection of Quaker books, particularly American, open to the public upon application to the Librarian."

f) Private Collections

Edward Hopkinson, The Gladstone, 11th and Pine Sts., Philadelphia; letters from almost every American of importance who lived between 1775 and 1850. Open to responsible people.

The Biddle family, Philadelphia; many letters of Revolutionary period and later. Open to responsible persons.

Simon Gratz, Philadelphia; valuable collection of early period. Not open.

RHODE ISLAND

a) Brown University, Providence

The Harris Collection of 12,299 vols. " contains two-thirds of the books of American poetry printed before 1800, three-fourths of those printed from 1800 to 1870, and one-half of those from 1870 to 1903. The Walt Whitman collection comprises 50 imprints including 13 editions of Leaves of Grass. Wm. Dunlap is represented by 25 titles; John Howard Payne and Poe are well represented. Other features are: American drama, song-books, classified as martial, negro minstrel, presidential campaign, temperance, etc. Poetry collection includes also Canada and Spanish America." See Catalogue of John Carter Brown Library (1919, 1923) for collection of American Colonial history to 1800.

SOUTH CAROLINA

a) College of Charleston

"Has files of newspapers of the early nineteenth century, which might be of incidental use in the study of Southern literature. A few of the volumes are unique. There is a collection of bound pamphlets containing addresses, orations, etc."

b) Charleston Library Society

"Has an excellent collection of works by Carolina authors; of newspaper files from early eighteenth century; and a collection of literature pertaining to the war between the states, with many clippings."

c) University of South Carolina, Columbia

"No special collections. Has Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, Lond., 1702; Smith, John, Generall History of Virginia, Lond., Blackmore, 1632. See Appendix B of Bulletin 134 "Caroliniana."

d) Private Collections of Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., Professor Yates Snowden, Mr. August Kohn, all of Columbia, containing South Caroliniana.

TENNESSEE.

a) State Library, Nashville

TEXAS

"Has some valuable manuscripts of our early governors, such as the John Sevier papers."

a) State Library, Austin

With the Littlefield fund "the effort is being made to collect everything available emanating from and concerning the centers of Spanish-Colonial life in the Southwest-Santa Fe, San Antonio, New Orleans, Mobile, St. Augustine. . . . Our library is trying to collect Texana, too; but the University library is far ahead of ours because it has had so much more money to spend."

b) University of Texas, Austin

Particularly rich in certain kinds of Americana.

1) Wrenn Library:

1. An almost complete run of first editions of Irving, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Emerson, and Holmes.

2. A valuable collection of Poe, including manuscripts, the rare Poems of 1831, and Poe's own copy of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840.

3. Manuscripts and letters of Holmes, Whittier, etc.

4. A remarkable collection of Eugene Field, including one manu. script.

5. Odd volumes (1st editions and ass. copies) of Howells, Harte, Twain.

6. First edition of American historians, Bancroft, Parkman, Fiske, Motley.

7. Special publications of William Lowring Andrews, De Vinne, Grolier Club, Caxton Club, and Duodecimo Club.

2) Bieber Collection of American Poetry. More than 7,200 items, falling approximately into the following groups:

1. Manuscripts, 1768-present.

2. Local poetry and ballads, printed privately or by subscription.

3. Long runs of successive editions of such items as The StarSpangled Banner and Drake's Culprit Fay.

4. Occasional Poetry, such as poetry on the death of Washington, Lincoln, etc.

5. Works of the Boston Wits, including the magazine, The Echo, founded in imitation of the English Anti-Jacobin.

6. Collections of poems illustrating the rise of various humanitarian movements in the United States.

7. A very considerable collection of plays, both those written in
the United States and those written in England and produced
in America.

8. A great mass of music, including hymns from early colonial
days to present, patriotic songs, and popular stage music.
9. Colonial sermons.

3) Hilliard Library of Southern Literature. About 500 volumes of Southern prose and poetry, mostly nineteenth century authors.

4) Littlefield Collection of Southern Literature. Income of $100,000 spent annually on purchase of material on Southern history, literature, social and economic works, law, etc. Nearly complete file of Charleston newspapers from 1799 to present. Many other files of Richmond, Washington, and other newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, etc.

5) Our general Library besides the standard magazines contains a complete or almost complete file of most of the early American magazines, such as Portfolio, Knickerbockers, Dial, Galaxy, New Englander, Southern Literary Messenger, Southern Review, New Eclectic, Southern Quarterly, Analectic, Weekly Register, Niles's Register, Democratic Review, Grabow's Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, DeBow's Review, Peterson's Review, Russell's Magazine, etc.

c) Southern Methodist University, Dallas

"We have little of importance except the Shettles Collection, which includes a large number of novels, poems, etc. written by writers of the Southwest,-all minor authors, of course."

d) Private Collections

Dr. Alexander Dienst, Austin, has much material of interest for Texas literature, including a fine collection of Texas poetry. Mrs. W. H. Stark, Orange, has a few manuscripts of Joel Chandler Harris.

VERMONT

a) Middlebury College, Middlebury, has received the Abernethy Library of American literature at Burlington, Vt.

VIRGINIA

a) State Library, Richmond

"Our manuscripts are extremely valuable historically, since we have the archives of the State from Colonial times-such of them as have been preserved-but they are not of any special value, probably, from the point of view of literature.

"I may say, in addition, that we have published at the Virginia State Library the Journals of the House of Burgesses and the Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, and that these two sets of books are extremely valuable to any one making a study of the development of the language here in Virginia. Hening's Statutes at Large are also valuable from this point of view."

The Library contains the following rare magazines: American Museum (Phila.) 1787; American Quarterly Review (Phila.) 1827; American Register (Phila.) 1817; Balance and Columbian Repository (Hudson, N. Y.) 1802; Baltimore Literary Monument, 1839; Eclectic Magazine, 1844; Family Magazine (N. Y.) 1833; Galaxy (N. Y.) 1866); Godey's Lady's Book, 1830; International Review (N.Y.) 1874; Land we Love (Charlotte, N. C.) 1866; Lippincott's Magazine (Phila.) 1868; Literary Magazine and American Register (Phila.) 1803; National Magazine (Richmond) 1799; National Quarterly Review (N. Y.) 1866; New Eclectic Magazine (Baltimore) 1868; N. Y. Literary Gazette and American Athenaeum, 1825; N. Y. Literary Gazette and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, 1825; N. Y. Magazine or Literary Repository, 1790; N. Y. Mirror, 1824; N. Y. Review, 1837; Niles' Weekly Register (Balt.) 1811; Norton's Literary Adviser (N. Y.) 1851; Old Dominion Magazine (Richmond) 1870; Olden Time (Pittsburgh) 1846; Phila. Monthly Magazine, or Universal Depository, 1798; Portfolio, 1801; Potter's American Monthly (Phila.) 1872; Richmond Age, 1864; Richmond Eclectic, 1866; Russell's Magazine (Charleston) 1857 (?); South Atlantic (Wilmington, N. C.) 1878(?); Southern Historical Monthly (Raleigh 1876); Southern Literary Messenger, 1834; Southern Magazine (Balt.) 1871 (continued from New Eclectic); Southern Quarterly Review (N. Orleans and Charleston) 1842; Southern Review (Charleston) 1828; Southern Review (Balt.) 1867; Southwestern Monthly (Nashville) 1852; U. S. Literary Gazette (Boston) 1825; U. S. Review (N. Y.) 1853; Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine (Richmond) 1818; Virginia Historical Register (Richmond) 1848; Virginia Historical Reporter (Richmond) 1854; Virginia Literary Museum, 1829; Virginia Lyceum (Richmond) 1839; Waldie's Select Circulating Library (Phila.) 1833.

b) Virginia Historical Society, Richmond

"Our manuscripts are almost all strictly historical."