Box 6, Folder 1, General correspondence of Mr. W. J. Hamilton.
October 16, 1904
From John Patterson MacLean to the Executive Committee, Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society.
This letter, titled "Unappreciated Donations,"
refers to items given to J. P. MacLean to be donated to the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society. Because of an offensive letter
written to MacLean by an employee of the Society, they have decided to
have Mr. MacLean hold any donations until a change in the administration
of the Society takes place.
April 27, 1941
From Estell T. Weeks, Washington D.C. to the Dayton Library.
Ms. Weeks is asking if the library has any printed or manuscript works by or about the Shakers, especially any of their hymns or music. Ms. Weeks also is working to revise J. P. MacLean's bibliography on Shakers literature.
Attached:
April 29, 1941
From Mr. W. J. Hamilton to Ms. Weeks.
Mr. Hamilton thanks Ms. Weeks for her request
because this helped them locate material in the library that wasn't even
known to be there. He mentions the fact that much of the Shakers
material was destroyed during the 1913 flood.
Attached:
May 2, 1941
From Ms. E. T. Weeks to Mr. Hamilton.
Apparently Mr. Hamilton communicated again with Ms. Weeks and told her how her letter had gotten him interested and Ms. Weeks is happy to hear that. She is giving information in her letter as to where good Shakers collections exist and what they have. She also gives some advice as to what can be done to preserve the material and the value of this important collection.
Attached:
May 2, 1941
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Ernest J. Wessen, Mansfield, OH.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Wessen if they
have a copy of MacLean's Shakers of Ohio, published in 1907, to buy for
the library.
August 2, 1941
From Clarence S. Brigham, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester,
Massachusetts, to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Brigham is sending Mr. Hamilton a bibliography
of Dayton Newspapers before 1821.
Attached:
The bibliography.
August 12, 1941
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Lee R. Dodds, Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton is attempting to identify a newspaper clipping dealing with the Shakers at Union Village. The heading of the newspaper is gone, and he asks if the name "Malcolm A. Karsher" means anything to Mr. Dodds, or if he knows where the newspaper was issued. The only information he has is that it was issued from June 28, 1911, somewhere in Ohio.
September 1, 1942
From R. G. Vail, New York State Library, to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Vail informs Mr. Hamilton that their copy
of Youngs’ publication Testimony of Christ. . ., is in excellent condition,
but it has a preliminary fly leaf, followed by the half title, with the
quotation of Moses, but doesn't have the leaflet The Church of Christ.
September 8, 1942
From "B.F.," the Newberry Library, to Mr. Hamilton.
Same findings as Messrs. Vail and Rice.
September 14, 1942
From Mr. Keyes D. Metcalf, Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mr. Hamilton wants to know who purchased the
Herschell V. Jones collection because he knew that this collection was
strong, especially in Shakers material; he is very interested in locating
a leaflet, Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing.
September 17, 1942
From K. D. Metcalf, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Mr.
Hamilton.
Mr. Metcalf informs Mr. Hamilton that they
did not purchase the H. V. Jones Collection, nor do they have the requested
pamphlet.
September 19, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. K. D. Metcalf
Apparently, Mr. Metcalf sent information to
Mr. Hamilton about the H. V. Jones Collection, which Mr. Hamilton had confused
with the M. B. Jones Collection. He apparently wrote to many other
libraries and was unable to locate the leaflet that he had requested above.
September 19, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. C. K. Shipton, American Antiquarian Library,
Worcester, Mass.
Mr. Hamilton wants to know if they own the leaflet Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing.
Attached:
September 23, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. R. W. G. Vail, New York State Library, Albany,
New York.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Vail of the response
he got from Miss Stephens at Williams College.
September 24, 1942
From Clifford K. Shipton, to Mr. Hamilton
Mr. Shipton informs Mr. Hamilton that they
do not have the above leaflet.
September 28, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
Mr. Hamilton informs them of the 1808 edition
of Youngs’ Testimony of Christ and the four page leaflet headed The Church
of Christ that the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library owns.
He asks if they own this copy. Below, there is a note saying that
this letter was sent to:
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Connecticut Library
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Connecticut Historical Society
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Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.
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New York Historical Society, New York
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Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey
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Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin
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Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania
September 30, 1942
From Mr. Kenneth S. Gapp, Theological Seminary Library, Princeton,
New Jersey to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Gapp says that they do not have the poem
of the Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing about which Mr. Hamilton
had sent an inquiry.
October 2, 1942
From Dorothy C. Barck, New York Historical Society, New York, to Mr.
Hamilton.
Same answer as above for the same request.
October 5, 1942
From Ms. Fanny G. Clark, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
to Mr. Hamilton.
Same answer as above for the same request.
October 6, 1942
From Mary Foster, State of Wisconsin, State Historical Society to Mr.
Hamilton.
Ms. Foster informs Mr. Hamilton that they
do not own the copy entitled The Church of Christ. . .
October 8, 1942
From James Brewster, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut
to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. James Brewster informs Mr. Hamilton that
they do not have the requested copy, The Church of Christ. . .
October 19, 1942
From Frank Gillingham, Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania
to Mr. Hamilton.
Same negative answer for the requested copy,
The Church of Christ. . .
November 3, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to the following institutions, telling them that
our library acquired a second copy of A Summary View of the Millennial
Church, or United Believers, Commonly Called Shakers, ed. 2, Albany, 1848:
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Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
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Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
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Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio
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New York State Library, Albany, New York
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New York Public Library, New York
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State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin
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Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania
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Connecticut Public Library, Hartford, Connecticut
From all these, only Western Reserve Historical Society and
Ohio State Archaeological Society didn't have this copy. Mr. Hamilton's
decision is not clear.
February 6, 1943
From Mr. Thompson R. Harlow, Hartford, Connecticut, to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Thompson informs Mr. Hamilton that he
cannot help him with information referred to in his letter of September
28, 1942.
July 9, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Charles H. Young, Lebanon, Ohio.
Apparently, Mr. Young, Secretary of the People's
Building and Loan Co., gave a presentation at a meeting of the Warren Historical
Society at the Golden Lamb, about the "Life and Customs of the Shakers."
Mr. Hamilton wanted a copy of his presentation.
Attached:
July 16, 1943
From Mr. Charles H. Young to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Young states that he didn't have anything
written and that his notes were not in good shape.
Attached:
September 23, 1943
Mr. Young recommends a book called The Shaker Adventure
by Margaret Fellows Melcher, 1941; he says that all that he had in his
presentation had been included in this book, and a great deal more.
Attached:
September 25, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Young.
Mr. Hamilton thought that Mr. Young had gotten
his information from local people and that is why he wanted to know the
sources of his presentation. He informed Mr. Young that the Library
owns Melcher's book The Shaker Adventure.
December 20, 1943
From Ms. Esther Liput, Miamisburg, Ohio, to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Hamilton apparently asked her if she could
find references to the Dayton Shakers in old issues of the Miamisburg Bulletin.
She is loaning him three copies of the Bulletin (Aug. 29, 1890, April 10,
1891, and Sept. 18, 1891) and mentions that she found several references
to articles on Union Village appearing in other issues of that period but
hasn't been able to look at those issues yet.
December 28, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Van Camp, Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton had read an article in one of
the Dayton newspapers about the history of Watervliet and was informed
by Mr. Harry Patton that Otterbein Home Farm had loaned a book on this
subject. He wanted to know if the library could acquire this book.
September 19, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Robert W. G. Vail, New York State Library,
Albany, New York.
Mr. Hamilton is trying to find the correct
pagination for the poems ". . . Father Job and Canterbury, 1829, Number
4," of Certain Points of Doctrine and A Brief Exposit.
Attached:
October 2, 1944
From Mr. R. G. Vail to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Vail is saying that he found nothing in
their library; he refers him to the Antiquarian Society (it is supposed
to have the best Shakers Collection), Western Historical Society, and New
York Public Library.
Attached:
October 4, 1944
From Clarence Brigham, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mr. Brigham answers Mr. Hamilton and says
that he also found nothing about these poems. He mentions that Mr.
Wallace H. Cathart had obtained a lot of printed material from the Shakers
and gave these to Western Reserve. He hopes that this is the place
that can help.
Attached:
October 6, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Clarence S. Brigham, American Antiquarian
Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mr. Hamilton apparently was referred to Western
Reserve Historical Society by Mr. Brigham for information about the poem,
"Father Job," but Western Reserve never replied. He is asking if
the Society has a volume, without title page, for which his copy of A Series
of Lectures on Orthodoxy might have been intended as a title page and introduction.
Attached:
October 7, 1944
From Mr. Paul Rice, New York Public Library to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Rice informs Mr. Hamilton that they also
have none of these poems.
October 23, 1944
From Mr. Clarence Brigham to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Brigham informs Mr. Hamilton that they
have no information pertaining to Mr. Hamilton's queries and that he has
to wait until Western Reserve has the time to search.
October 30, 1944
From L. E. Froom, General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, Tacoma
Park, Washington, D. C. to Mr. Hamilton.
Apparently Mr. Froom was referred to Mr. Hamilton
by Miss Margaret Dempster of the Western Reserve Historical Society for
some photos of Shakers; Miss Dempster thinks that Dayton & Montgomery
County Public Library has a good collection pertaining to Shakers.
Attached:
October 31, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. L. E. Froom.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Froom that Dayton
& Montgomery County Public Library actually does not have a good collection
of photos; they still are trying to enrich their collection.
April 16, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Col. E. A. Deeds, National Cash Register Co.,
Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton talks about their efforts to
enrich the Shakers collection in the library and the reasons why it is
so important. A book by Richard McNemar, Review of the Most Important
Events, is offered for sale to the Dayton Library for $50.00 and Mr. Hamilton
is asking for financial help.
April 23, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Col. E. A. Deeds, NCR.
Mr. Hamilton is sending a funny quote about
people who collect rare books.
April 25, 1946
From Joseph Usellis, New York, to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Usellis replies to Mr. Hamilton's letter
to Col. Deeds, who wants to donate the $50.00 for the purchase of the book.
Attached:
May 1, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Col. E.A. Deeds, New York.
Mr. Hamilton was able to buy the book for
$40.00 and asks Col. Deeds if he can use the $10.00 for the purchase of
a second book, Kentucky Revival or a Short History.
Attached:
May 7, 1946
Mr. Joseph Usellis to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Usellis says that Col. Deeds agrees for
the library to use the rest of the money for an additional book.
Attached:
April 12, 1946
The receipt for buying three books, dated April 12, 1946.
May 29, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Edward D. Alexander, Wisconsin Historical
Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
Mr. Hamilton informed Mr. Alexander that the
Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library recently acquired a 24 page
pamphlet titled The Resurrection ascribed to Frederick W. Evans, which
was received "about the first of November, 1839, for Mother Ann."
He would like for someone to check the pamphlet and send bibliographic
information.
June 3, 1946
From Benton H. Wilcox, The State of Wisconsin, State Historical Society,
Madison, Wisconsin to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wilcox replies to Mr. Hamilton regarding
the requested pamphlet and says that theirs is exactly the same except
that it has 29 pages instead of 24, and believes that item 264 in MacLean's
Bibliography is something different.
August 6, 1946
From Harold E. Cook, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to Dayton and Montgomery
County Public Library.
Mr. Cook is attempting a collation of all
Shaker manuscripts and asks if the library has any Shaker hymnals.
Attached:
August 10, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Harold Cook.
Mr. Hamilton replies to Mr. Cook and says
that the Dayton Library doesn't have any Shaker hymnals. He regrets
the fact that the Library didn't appreciate earlier the existence of Watervliet
and make an effort to acquire Shaker material; as a result most of the
material is at the Library of Congress, Western Reserve Historical Society
of Cleveland, and the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society at Columbus, Ohio.
August 21, 1947
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Frank A. Kavanaugh, Kentucky Law and Legislative
Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Kavanaugh that the
Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library obtained a 12 page leaflet
Court of Appeals, the Shaker Case, Gross & Banta vs. Wilheit, an opinion
delivered by Judge Nicholas, May 5, 1839, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
He wants to know the correct pagination; he also thinks that this is part
of another volume and if so, what is the volume; if they have it to please
see if this leaflet would appear among other cases.
Attached:
August 22, 1947
From Frank Kavanaugh to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Frank Kavanaugh replies to Mr. Hamilton
and says that he can find complete texts of Gross and Banta vs. Wilheit
in 34 Kentucky Reports 170 to 203 May 1834, opinion by Judge Nicholas,
involving the settlement of Shaker property at Pleasant Hill in Mercer
County. The case is copied in vol. 26, American Decisions, pp. 446
to 459 and further suggests that he go to any important law library to
compare their pamphlet copy.
June 14, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Miss Elizabeth C. Biggert, Ohio State Museum,
Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton knows that the Ohio State Museum
is aware of J.P. MacLean's Bibliography on Shaker Literature and asks them
to check item no. 264.
June 14, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Benton H. Wilcox, State Historical Society
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Wilcox that the library's
copy of Resurrection about which they corresponded earlier had been in
the possession of J. P. MacLean and has the autograph of Lydia Dutton who
was, in the 1850s, a member of the Sabbath Day Lake Colony of New Gloucester,
Maine. He thinks that their copy is no. 264 in MacLean's bibliography
because he cannot find a trace of that size anymore. He wants the
headings on pages 23 to 29 of that item.
June 16, 1952
From Benton H. Wilcox to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wilcox is sending the headings for the
requested pages.
June 19, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Benton H. Wilcox.
Mr. Hamilton found that there are two different
pamphlets under the same title Resurrection. He knows that their
library has two copies and wants to buy one of them if possible.
Otherwise, he would like to have a copy from one of them so the Dayton
and Montgomery County Public Library will have both copies.
June 23, 1952
From Benton H. Wilcox to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wilcox is willing to give up the second
copy to Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, however he doesn't
know the value of this pamphlet. He assumes around $3.00 to $5.00.
July 21, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wilcox.
Mr. Hamilton offers to buy the pamphlet for
$4.00.
July 22, 1952
From Mr. Wilcox to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wilcox agrees to Mr. Hamilton's offer.
November 11, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Harriet S. Tatley, Essex Institute, Salem,
Massachusetts.
Mr. Hamilton had heard that Essex Institute
had under their ownership Concise Answer of the General Inquire. . . by
Richard McNemar and want to see it.
Attached:
November 19, 1952
From Esther Usher, Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts to Mr. Hamilton.
Miss Usher is sending the pamphlet that Mr.
Hamilton had requested.
Attached:
November 21, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Miss Esther Usher.
Mr. Hamilton thanks Miss Usher for sending
the item that he had requested; however, he found that this was item 192
instead of item 191 that MacLean had in his bibliography and that MacLean
didn't give credit to them as owning this.
December 8, 1952
From Ben C. Bowman, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Bowman informs Mr. Hamilton that they
cannot really help him with any of his queries about imprints since they
have no holdings of Shaker material.
January 13, 1953
From Evelyn Nelson, New York State Library, Albany, New York, to Mr.
Hamilton.
Ms. Nelson had received the inquiry of Mr.
Hamilton through Dr. Gosnell and gives a listing of their holdings.
September 29, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Benton H. Wilcox, Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Mr. Hamilton is asking for 1) the speech
by Robert Wickliffe, 2) the manuscript Memorable Events, and 3) The
Kentucky Revival, 1837 ed.
Attached:
October 2, 1953
From Mr. Wilcox to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wilcox replies to Mr. Hamilton saying
that their Society doesn't have any of the above.
October 3, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Virginius C. Hall, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton is asking whether an article,
"Dr. Holley's Review of Professor Silliman's," which MacLean states appeared
in the Western Review, vol. 3, page 903, might actually have appeared in
the Western Review and Miscellany Magazine published in Lexington, Kentucky,
from 1819 to 1821.
October 7, 1953
From Virginius C. Hall to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Hall verifies to Mr. Hamilton that Dr.
Holley is not the author of the Western Review.
October 14, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Edward D. Andrews, Scarborough School, Scarborough,
New York.
Apparently Mr. Andrews wrote a book on Shakers
and Mr. Hamilton is asking him if he had come across Memorable Events in
the Live of Richard McNemar during his research.
October 15, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Virginius C. Hall.
Mr. Hamilton is asking for the size of their
leaflet, Constitution of the United Society of Believers.
October 19, 1953
From Virginius C. Hall, Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio,
Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Hall is sending the dimensions of the
pamphlet United
Society of Believers Called Shakers. A note in the back of the
letter says that MacLean probably confused the Western Review and Miscellany
Magazine with McNemar's Western Review in referencing the article "Dr.
Holley's Review. . ."
October 26, 1953
From Edward P. Andrews, Scarborough School, Scarborough, New York,
to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Andrews informs Mr. Hamilton that he hasn't
seen McNemar's manuscript Memorable Events; he suggests that he write to
the Library of Congress or to Grosvenor Library in Buffalo, New York.
October 31, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Hazel M. Phillips, Warren County Historical
Museum, Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton is asking if Mrs. Phillips knows
of any record of Jenny Dunlavy's being married to McNemar.
Attached:
November 7, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Phillips.
Apparently, Mr. Hamilton found out that Rev.
John Dunlavy had married a Cassie McNemar and wants to know when the marriage
took place.
Attached:
No date
From Mrs. Phillips to Mr. Hamilton.
She informs Mr. Hamilton that she had a heart
attack and was in bed for 3 weeks. She tells him that she found no
record of McNemar's marriage to Jenny Dunlavy but did find that John Dunlavy
married Cassie McNemar.
Attached:
November 9, 1953
From Mrs. Wm. Mason Phillips, Glendower Museum, Lebanon, Ohio, to Mr.
Hamilton.
Mrs. Phillips informs Mr. Hamilton that the
Kentucky records do not include McNemar and Dunlavy's marriage. She thinks
that this information would be in a family Bible but doesn't know where
such a Bible might be. She is asking for the biography of David Durriance
and a list of publications by McNemar.
Attached:
November 11, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Phillips.
Apparently, Mr. Hamilton was assigned by Mr.
Wessen to write an article on McNemar and that is why he is working on
his Shaker bibliography. He informs Mrs. Phillips that there will
be enough space for her to expand on MacLean's biography of McNemar.
No date (but probably precedes the following letter)
From Hazel S. Phillips to Mr. Hamilton
Mrs. Phillips apparently was informed that
Mr. Hamilton will retire, and she is writing a note to him. She says
that they'll miss Mr. Hamilton's not being at the Library and she is asking
for a copy of McNemar's bibliography that Mr. Hamilton wrote.
March 8, 1956
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. William M. Phillips, Warren County Historical
Museum, Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mrs. Phillips that the
McNemar bibliography was not published but he is sending a carbon copy.
January 28, 1957
From Faith Andrews, New Haven, Connecticut, to Mr. Hamilton.
Duplicate material of books and pamphlets
is offered to the Dayton Library for acquiring.
Attached:
February 7, 1957
From Mrs. Elizabeth Faries to Mrs. Edward D. Andrews.
Ms. Faries informs Mrs. Andrews that Mr. Hamilton
has retired, but the library is interested in acquiring Shakers material
and wants a price list of books and pamphlets.
Box 6, Folder 2, Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, New York.
September 14, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Joseph B. Rounds, Grosvenor Library, Buffalo,
New York.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Rounds that the Dayton
and Montgomery County Public Library has come into possession of a rare
Shaker item, Youngs’ Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing. However,
inside it there was a four page leaflet headed The Church of Christ.
He wants to have their bibliography and a listing of their holdings.
Attached:
September 18, 1942
From Mildred E. Ross to Mr. Hamilton.
She is replying and is sending the bibliography
and says that the largest Shaker collection is at the Western Reserve Historical
Society in Cleveland.
Attached:
September 19, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Miss Mildred E. Ross.
Mr. Hamilton thanks her for the information
and writes that the director of the Western Reserve Historical Society,
Mr. Wallace Cathcart, died two weeks ago.
Attached:
September 23, 1942
From Mildred E. Ross.
She was sorry to hear about Mr. Cathcart's
death and says that the person who compiled the Shaker bibliography at
Grosvenor's Library (Miss Esther C. Winter) is in California now.
From November 8, 1943 - July 17, 1953
All these letters were bound together and were addressed to:
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Mr. Robert W. Christ
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Mr. Paul Rooney
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Mrs. Janise R. Mentas
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Miss J. D. Van Arsdale
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Mr. Joseph B. Rounds
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Ms. Mildred E. Ross
Mr. Hamilton wrote to Grosvenor Library to examine the two
publications, An Improved Edition of the Church Covenant and Valuable Extracts
from Sundry Writers dated 1835, from which Mr. Hamilton thought that McNemar
was preparing a new edition of some sort. The second of the two publications
was called Selection of Shaker Literature, at Grosvenor Library and A Little
Selection of Choice Poetry New and Old at the Library of Congress.
Also, Mr. Hamilton examined the poem "Precious Way of God" from
Selections of Hymns and Poems and A Sacred Repository of Anthems and Hymns
by R. McNemar. Mr. Hamilton asked for photostats from Selections
of Shaker Literature item (winter 182, 181) which was a printing of parts
of a contemplated 1836 enlargement of the authors 1833 Selections of Hymns
and Poems. He also obtained photostats of the Orthodox Trinity owned
by Western Reserve Historical Society. Along with this material are
also included Mr. Hamilton's notes from his findings.
Box 6, Folder 3, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
September 12, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Lyle H. Wright.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Wright to examine
The Kentucky Revival, Cincinnati: Press of J. W. Browne, 1807,
(in MacLean's Bibliography item #65) for the number of pages.
Attached:
September 12, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Virginius C. Hall, Historical and Philosophical
Society, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton is asking the same question.
Attached:
September 14, 1953
From Mrs. Alice Hook, Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mrs. Hook informed Mr. Hamilton that their
copy of McNemar's The Kentucky Revival, contains a 28 page work at the
end, Observations on Church Government.
Attached:
October 14, 1953
From Carl Vitz, Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Carl Vitz also replies stating his observations
about the Cincinnati Public Library copy of The Kentucky Revival.
September 21, 1953
From Mary Isabel Fry.
Apparently, Mr. Hamilton had written to Mr.
Wright but he was on vacation. Ms. Fry replies to his question by
saying that they do not have Pelham's To the Memory of David Spinning.
Note:
See also folders Nos7, 3.
Box 6, Folder 4, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
September 3, 1942
From Mr. Frederick R. Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff replies concerning Youngs’ Testimony
of Christ's Second Appearing (1808); he says that in their copy the half-title
that Mr. Hamilton describes is the first leaf in the volume and that their
copy doesn't contain the four-page leaflet headed The Church of Christ.
September 23, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Frederick Goff.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Goff that he was
able to find one of the little Shaker leaflets in the Library of Williams
College and that the date 1304 was an obvious mistake. It had been
corrected in their copy.
Note:
No title of the leaflet.
September 12, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. George E. Schwegmann.
Mr. Hamilton is trying to locate the pamphlet
A Series of Lectures on Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, to find out how large
the entire work was. Also, he wants to find information on The Western
Expositor, no. 4.
September 19, 1944
From Mr. George E. Schwegmann.
This is a reply to Mr. Hamilton saying that
according to the Union Catalog, the only copies available is their copy,
a copy at the Western Reserve Historical Society, and the one at the Dayton
Public Library. He can't locate The Western Expositor, no. 4.
October 4, 1944
From unknown person to Mr. Hamilton.
Apparently, the letter that Mr. Hamilton sent
to the Library of Congress was sent somewhere else to help locate The Western
Expositor but with no luck.
October 4, 1944
From Mr. Frederick Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff replies about The Western Expositor,
no. 4, and says that their library owns two copies of this four page item,
but they have no source that indicates date of publication or book in which
this was first printed.
Attached:
October 7, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Frederick Goff.
Mr. Hamilton thinks, after receiving the letter
of Mr. Goff, that R. McNemar had published The Western Expositor, no. 4,
under the pseudonym of E. W. (Eleazar Wright).
Attached:
October 12, 1944
From Mr. Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff agrees with Mr. Hamilton and says
that he'll keep this letter in his files for future researchers.
June 7, 1946
From F. R. Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff informs Mr. Hamilton that they have
no holdings of the pamphlet called Resurrection.
April 16, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Inter-Library Division.
Mr. Hamilton writes about the unusual collection
that the Dayton Library has of Valuable Extracts From Sundry Writers, published
in 1835, and wants to borrow their rare book Little Selections.
May 3, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Miss Elsie Rackstraw.
Mr. Hamilton is returning their copy (which
they loaned him) of Review of the Most Important Events, Union Village,
1831, and is asking for her to arrange an exchange or purchase of two duplicate
signatures which were inserts to their copy of Little Selections.
Attached:
May 15, 1946
From Thomas R. Barcus to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Barcus says that exchange arrangements
can be done for only one of the signatures.
May 29, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Thomas Barcus.
Apparently, Mr. Barcus sent some duplicate
material to Mr. Hamilton about the Shakers, and Mr. Hamilton is thanking
him. He also would like someone to check for the pamphlet which is
item #264 in MacLean's bibliography.
May 7, 1947
From Mr. Lewis M. Stark, New York Public Library, to Mr. Frederick
Goff.
Mr. Stark is asking for information on McNemar's
A Review of the Most Important Events, Union Village, Ohio (1831), as to
pagination and content.
Attached:
May 21, 1947
From Mr. Vincent L. Eaton to Mr. Stark.
This is the response from Mr. Vincent L. Eaton
to Mr. Stark giving the information he needed. Mr. Eaton's copy of
A Review . . is a confusing one bibliographically, for it contains numerous
printer's errors and appears to have extraneous material bound in.
August 6, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. John W. Cronin.
Mr. Hamilton needs information about a Shaker
hymn book, since there is no entry under the title referred to.
Attached:
August 15, 1952
From Mr. John W. Cronin to Mr. Hamilton.
This is the reply of Mr. Cronin saying that
this hymn book was published without a title page and bound up from sheets
in the printing office with no attempt at regularity. This work does
not appear in the standard Shaker bibliographies.
Attached:
August 21, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Cronin.
Mr. Hamilton is asking if Mr. Cronin could
send him McNemar's hymn book to check it; he also asks him to compare A
Selection of Hymns and Poems with A Little Selection of Choice Poetry New
and Old.
September 2, 1952
From Mr. Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff informs Mr. Hamilton that it is impossible
for them to make available for interlibrary loan the early Shaker hymn
book about which he had inquired. However, he is sending him a list
of the contents, the pagination, the size in centimeters, and the transcription
of the type note which appears on the inside front fly-leaf. He also
makes Mr. Hamilton aware of the extensive collection of unclassified Shaker
material which is available at the Library of Congress.
Attached:
The information that Mr. Goff had mentioned in this letter.
September 13, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Mr. Hamilton wants to know the individual
headings for pages 1-12 and 13-20 of A Little Selection of Choice Poetry
(1835).
September 16, 1952
From Mr. Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
This is Mr. Goff's reply to Mr. Hamilton's
request for the second copy of McNemar's A Little Selection of Choice Poetry.
He is furnishing him the individual heading of all three copies.
Attached:
Information for the three copies.
September 22 - October 15, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Goff if he could
borrow through interlibrary loan McNemar's Selection of Choice Poetry (1835),
provided that the Grosvenor Library at Buffalo and the Huntington Library
at San Marino will send their copies so he can physically compare them.
Also, he is asking for the leaflet Western Expositor. The Library
of Congress has no objections to this, as well as the Grosvenor Library,
however, Huntington sent only a detailed descriptive pagination to use.
Mr. Hamilton states his finding with very interesting data. Finally,
the Library of Congress donated the duplicate copy of a fragment of 12
pages from McNemar's Selection of Choice Poetry.
Attached:
October 28, 1952
This is a list of all the questions that arose to Mr. Hamilton in trying
to untangle the bibliographic puzzles involved in various leaflets and
pamphlets issued at what was formerly the Shaker Village of Watervliet,
Ohio, where Richard McNemar (sometimes using the pseudonym E. W. Eleazar
Wright, or Brother Eleazar) operated the printing press of the Shaker community.
Mr. Hamilton used this list to send inquiries to many libraries around
the United States to locate Shaker material related to the holdings of
the Dayton Library.
Attached:
November 5, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Mr. Hamilton wants to have a fuller listing
of the six final unnumbered pages in copy 3 of McNemar's Little Selection
(1835) and also the exact contents of these last six pages, with any titles
and verse numbers which appear on each page.
Attached:
The notes from his findings.
November 14, 1952
From Mr. Frederick Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff replies to Mr. Hamilton's previous
letter and includes the information that had been requested.
April 16, 1953
From Mr. Frederick Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff informs Mr. Hamilton that the Libraray
of Congress does not possess a copy of either the Western Review no. 7
or the Journal of Peter Pease.
April 20, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Frederick Goff.
Mr. Hamilton is requesting to be sent the
entire first verse of the poem "The Precious Way" because he found some
peculiar Shaker hymn books without title pages.
Attached:
April 22, 1953
From Mr. Frederick Goff.
He is sending the requested information.
Attached:
April 22, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Goff to send him
The Shaker Hymn Book on interlibrary loan.
Attached:
April 29, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Apparently Mr. Hamilton was not clear about
what he had requested and Mr. Goff sent him the wrong book. He specifies
what he really wants.
Attached:
May 13, 1953
From Mr. Goff to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Goff is now sending the book that Mr.
Hamilton requested: Shaker Hymn Book.
June 6, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Mr. Hamilton is returning the Shaker Hymn
Book that the Library of Congress sent him and states that the pages of
this item correspond roughly to three similar hymn books without title
pages at Williams College, but there is a variety of arrangements in all
four copies that is almost impossible to describe.
September 3, 1953
To Mr. Frederick Goff from Mr. Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton was asking the number of the
page on which McNemar's Little Selection of Choice Poetry begins.
Attached:
September 14, 1953
From Vincent L. Eaton.
Apparently Mr. Goff was on vacation and Mr.
Eaton replied to Mr. Hamilton. He says that Jordan Pope's Certificate
has immediately beneath the heading, the line "published at Harrodsburg
(+) 1827." Also, he states that the Library of Congress has a copy
of Constitution of the United Society of Believers.
Attached:
September 29, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Goff.
Mr. Hamilton is trying to locate the manuscript
entitled Memorable Events in the Life of Richard McNemar, Written by Himself.
Box 6, Folder 5, Midland Rare Book Company
June 11, 1941
From Mr. Ernest J. Wessen to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wessen informs Mr. Hamilton that their
company bought all the books that they could use for J. P. MacLean's library;
he says that there is a copy on the history and influence of the Shakers
upon Miami Valley called The Kentucky Revival and Its Influence On the
Miami Valley. He says that they can sell it to the library for $1.00.
June 12, 1941
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wessen.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Wessen that they
will be willing to buy the book for $1.00.
September 18, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wessen.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Wessen how the
material came to the library (whether it came from the MacLean collection).
Attached:
September 20, 1944
From Mr. Wessen to Mr. Hamilton
Mr. Wessen believes that these pamphlets were
indeed property of John Patterson MacLean, who was the founder of about
every Shaker collection in the country.
Attached:
The notes of Mr. Hamilton.
May 26, 1946
From Mr. Wessen to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wessen informs Mr. Hamilton of the importance
of this material and tries to persuade him to buy this book for the library.
November 10, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to A. W. Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Hamilton was informed that this company
handled the sale of the Herschell V. Jones Collection of Americana that
included Shaker material. He wants to know what institution bought
the Shaker material.
Attached:
November 12, 1952
From A. W. Rosenbach Co. (Ralph T. Howey) to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Howey informs Mr. Hamilton that the material
didn't include any Shaker material.
June 16, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wessen.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Wessen that McNemar's
bibliography that he is working on will be done soon. He comments
on his difficulties in completing this. He also is going to send
him the biographical sketch of R. McNemar.
Attached:
August 20, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wessen.
Mr. Hamilton informs Mr. Wessen about some
errors that he discovered in his copy of McNemar's bibliography.
Attached:
August 21, 1954
From Mr. Wessen to Mr. Hamilton.
Apparently Mr. Wessen received the bibliography
that Mr. Hamilton wrote and makes comments on that.
Attached:
September 7, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wessen.
Mr Hamilton informs Mr. Wessen about a couple
of corrections for his McNemar bibliography.
Attached:
October 11, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Wessen.
Mr. Hamilton is sending R. McNemar's biographical
sketch that he wrote.
Box 6, Folder 6, The New York Public Library
September 4, 1942
From Paul North Rice to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Rice reports his findings regarding Youngs’
publication, Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing.
May 9, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Paul North Rice.
Mr. Hamilton is trying this time to investigate
McNemar's Review of the Most Important Events, from page 3 on: does
this copy contain the Epistle Dedicatory of the Union Press (1832)?; do
you have the complete 55 pages of which MacLean speaks?
Attached:
May 14, 1946
From Mr. P. N. Rice to Mr. Hamilton.
This is the reply of Mr. Rice, giving the
pagination on pages that Mr. Hamilton requested and tells him that their
Review of the Most Important Events doesn't contain the Epistle Dedicatory
of the Union Press.
Attached:
September 13, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Lewis M. Stark.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Stark to have someone
check the two copies of Little Selection (1835) for the page headings of
the first 12 pages.
Attached:
September 16, 1952
From Mr. Lewis M. Stark to Mr. Hamilton.
This is the reply of Mr. Stark.
June 14, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Lewis M. Stark, New York Public Library.
He is asking Mr. Stark about a seven page
Shakers pamphlet held by the New York Public Library by Frederick W. Evans,
entitled Resurrection, to find out if it is similar to the 24 page leaflet,
The Resurrection held by Mr. Hamilton. A note at the bottom of this
letter states that Benton Wilcox of the Wisconsin Historical Society says
(June 16, 1952) they have both publications and they are not at all the
same, while the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has only
the seven page pamphlet.
June 25, 1952
From Mr. Paul North Rice to Mr. Hamilton.
Apparently, Mr. Hamilton wrote to Mr. Stark,
but he was on vacation and Mr. Rice replies. He says that their library
owns the copy Resurrection, but it was rebound and no longer contains the
Evans item. He is giving a detailed description of their copy.
July 21, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. P. N. Rice.
Mr. Hamilton is thanking Mr. Rice for the
information.
October 14, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Lewis Stark.
Mr. Hamilton is asking them if they have an
autobiographical manuscript in their collection called Memorable Events.
. ., which J. P. MacLean states was in his possession when he wrote his
life of McNemar in 1905.
Attached:
The note for his request.
April 19 - September 7, 1954
To Lewis M. Stark from Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Hamilton wanted to know whether the Public
Discourses delivered at Union Village, 1823, were by John Dunlavy or by
McNemar or by a joint authorship. However, the New York Public Library
has cataloged the above item under McNemar with a note "First ascribed
by J.P. MacLean to John Dunlavy." Mr. Hamilton refers to his bibliography
as a long project; he is sending a copy to Mr. Stark who thinks that this
is a real achievement and makes some corrections for which Mr. Hamilton
is appreciative.
Attached:
September 10, 1954
From Mr. Lewis M. Stark to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Stark located a copy of the Nov. 1904
Bulletin of the New York Public Library. He removed the pages containing
their list of works pertaining to Shakers and is sending them to Mr. Hamilton.
Attached:
Is the list of all the letters.
Box 6, Folder 7, Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Society
August 29, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to the Ohio State Archaeological & Historical
Society.
Mr. Hamilton informs the Historical Society
that the Dayton Library is about to come into the possession of a rare
Lebanon 1808 edition of Youngs’ Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing,
but it lacks the main title page. It has a half-title page which
contains a two-line quotation from "Moses." He wants to know where
this half-title page is located in their volume. Also, he is unable
to find the leaflet The Church of Christ listed in the bibliographies which
he has and wants to know if they have it or have any record of it.
The same letter was sent to:
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Library of Congress
-
New York Public Library
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New York State Library
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Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
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Public Library of Lexington, KY
September 1, 1942
From Mr. Harlow Lindley to Mr. Hamilton.
The writer informs Mr. Hamilton that the half
title page of Youngs’ Testimony of Christ precedes the main title.
September 3, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Harlow Lindley.
Mr. Hamilton wants to know where the half
title would be located since their book is in fragments.
November 15, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Harlow Lindley.
Mr. Hamilton is asking if they have a printed
list of MacLean's materials and asks if they have a duplicate copy of his
Shakers of Ohio Fugitive Papers published in 1907.
Attached:
November 24, 1943
From Mr. Harlow Lindley to Mr. Hamilton.
He is saying that he'll be sending a list
of MacLean's material but he does not have a duplicate copy.
August 30, 1945
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Harlow Lindley.
Mr. Hamilton had borrowed one of the Shakers
books and now he is returning it.
May 29, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Harlow Lindley.
Mr. Hamilton is asking them to examine their
pamphlet called The Resurrection and send him bibliographic information
which will permit him to compare it with their copy at Dayton and Montgomery
County Public Library.
June 10, 1946
From Helen M. Mills to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. Mills informs Mr. Hamilton that they do
not have the pamphlet The Resurrection. Below there is a note that
Mr. Hamilton wrote again in 1952 for the same request and they had the
7 page pamphlet.
June 8, 1952
From Janet Hamer to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. Hamer is sending a detailed description
of their pamphlet The Resurrection.
September 16, 1952
From Mrs. Wm. Mason Phillips to Mr. Hamilton.
Mrs. Phillips informs Mr. Hamilton that she
cannot help him with his request for information (Karsler). She tells
him they have been very busy sending material to be microfilmed and says
that she would like to spend more time in the archives. Attached:
September 19, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. William M. Phillips.
Mr. Hamilton thanks Mrs. Phillips because
in the meantime she probably sent him some clippings. He talks further
of his findings of J. P. MacLean's publications which the library has acquired,
although he has some puzzles that he wants to solve.
November 21, 1952
From Elizabeth C. Biggert to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. Biggert gives a listing of all their holdings
on Shakers.
September 17, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Elizabeth R. Martin.
Mr. Hamilton is asking the Historical Society
to see if they have the autobiography of Richard McNemar, Memorable Events
in the Life of Richard McNemar, which John P. MacLean used in writing McNemar's
biography.
Attached:
September 21, 1953
From Elizabeth R. Martin to Mr. Hamilton.
Mrs. Martin informs Mr. Hamilton that they
cannot find the manuscript Memorable Events. . .
Attached:
September 29, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Chas. F. Gosnell, New York State Library,
Albany, New York.
Mr. Hamilton is still trying to locate the
autobiography of Mr. John P. McNemar. He believes that this book
should be there since, after Union Village Colony was closed, all the manuscripts
were sent to the Shaker Colony at Lebanon, New York.
Attached:
October 2, 1953
From Charles Francis Gosnell to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Gosnell informs Mr. Hamilton that they
cannot find the McNemar manuscript.
Box 6, Folder 8, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.
September 14, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton informs the Historical Society
that the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library has come into possession
of Youngs’ Testimony of Christ's. . . and inside it there is a four page
leaflet, The Church of Christ. He wants to know if their library
has a copy of this leaflet.
September 17, 1942
From Margaret Dempster to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. Dempster informs Mr. Hamilton that their
collection doesn't have the leaflet The Church of Christ; she thinks that
this probably is an item inserted in some volume but not listed in their
catalog.
November 8, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Elbert J. Benton.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Mr. Benton to ask Ms.
Dempster to check the two pamphlet volumes, Improved Edition of the Church
Covenant. Also, he is asking for the price of the duplicate copies
of the Manifesto.
November 8, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Margaret Dempster.
Mr. Hamilton is also writing to Ms. Dempster
for the two volume pamphlets that he had written to Mr. Benton.
December 3, 1943
From Margaret Dempster to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. Dempster replies to Mr. Hamilton concerning
the Vicksburg Daily Citizen by giving a brief description of it.
She also offers to type a history of Watervliet at $1.00 per hour and tells
Mr. Hamilton of some publications available for sale from their duplicate
shelves and their prices. Finally, she lists the names of some Shakers
about whom Mr. Hamilton had asked and gives whatever information she has
about each one.
Attached:
December 6, 1943
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Dempster.
Mr. Hamilton informs Ms. Dempster that he
had asked the Acquisition Department to have a formal order written for
the three copies and there was some confusion. He also asks Ms. Dempster
to see if MacLean's history of Watervliet is the same as that which he
asked previously from her.
September 12, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Margaret Dempster, WRHS, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton is trying to locate the entire
series of John Patterson MacLean's A Series of Lectures on Orthodoxy and
Heterodoxy. . . and the number of pages in the volume of the original book.
Attached:
Is a note saying that the Baptist, Ohio Mad.River Association [?] held
at Nettle Creek, September, 1816, and that he didn't have any reply to
his request from Western Reserve Historical Society.
September 15, 1944
From Mr. William J. Hamilton to Ms. Margaret Dempster, Western Reserve
Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Hamilton is asking Ms. Dempster to clarify
details on J.P. MacLean's copy, A Brief Exposition of the Established
Principles. He wants to know whether there are two styles of covers
or whether an additional supplement was included in the second copy, since
the Dayton Library's copy has a listing of books published by believers,
but lacks any "supplement" or any printed "note of identification".
Also, Mr. Hamilton is asking for a copy of the Baptist Ohio - Minutes of
Mad River Association.
October 31, 1944
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Dempster.
Mr. Hamilton asks Ms. Dempster to look through
her collection of Day-Star and Western Midnight Cry (which was its alternate
title) to see just which numbers were published at Union Village.
November 16, 1944
From Margaret Dempster.
Ms. Dempster is giving the dates and years
of the issues of the Day-Star that were published at Union Village, Ohio.
April 11, 1946
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Margaret Gidney.
Mr. Hamilton wants to look closely at the
differences between their copy and the Dayton Library copy of Improved
Edition of the Church Covenant; he says that spelling and phrasing are
slightly different.
August 20, 1947
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Margaret S. Gidney.
Mr. Hamilton is asking her to examine their
pamphlet BX9759-A1, item 2, entitled The Decision of the Court of Appeals
in Kentucky . . ., printed by Elder E. Wright (Richard McNemar) in Dayton,
for clarification of some of the wording and pagination, for comparison
with a copy which Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library had recently
acquired.
Attached:
August 22, 1947
Reply from Mrs. Alene Lowe White.
Mrs. White confirms the repetition of paging
numbers and the irregular paging, and the different typography appearing
in two sections.
February 3, 1949
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton asks if her Shaker files contain
the names of Lydia Dutton, Elder Lazarus and Elder Thomas. These
names appear in a Shaker leaflet, The Resurrection, recently acquired by
Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library, and Mr. Hamilton wants to
know more about these individuals.
Attached:
February 5, 1949
Reply from Alene Lowe White to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. White located Lydia Dutton (Sabbath Day
Lake Colony, New Gloucester, Maine, 1856) but found no information on Elders
Lazarus and Thomas.
August 9, 1952
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton asks the Historical Society to
compare the phraseology of three copies which they have of the pamphlet
Improved Edition of the Church Covenant.
Attached:
August 12, 1952
From Ms. Alene Lowe White.
She says that all three pamphlets are identical.
April 22, 1953
From Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Apparently, Mr. Hamilton had asked for personal
information about Oliver Prentiss and Ms. White is sending this to him.
September 17, 1953
To Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton is asking the Western Reserve
Historical Society for the autobiogaphy of Richard McNemar.
September 24, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton is asking to send any photostats
of McNemar's poem (title is not mentioned) or any other item about him.
October 15, 1953
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton is asking for the page size in
centimeters of the leaflet Constitution of the United Society of Believers.
October 21, 1953
From Alene Lowe White.
Ms. White has checked the two books of pamphlets
that Mr. Hamilton had requested and is sending the dimentions for the size
and the title page.
March 20, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton is asking for information about
pamphlet vol. BX9759A2; he is concerned with the name of the state of Kentucky,
and also, the even number on a right hand page and whether this pamphlet
is two pages shorter than the other. Attached:
March 30, 1954
From Ms. Alene Lowe White to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. White informs Mr. Hamilton about the pagination
of two pamphlets: Covenant or Constitution and The Constitution or Covenant
of the Church at Pleasant Hill (Kentucky).
April 3, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton thinks that 3 items, Orthodox
Trinity, Athanasian Creed and Orthodox Incarnation, came out as one set.
He wants to know if the Dayton copy of Orthodox Trinity corresponds with
their copy.
April 9, 1954
From Ms. Alene Lowe White.
Ms. White says that they have four copies
of McNemar's Orthodox Trinity, none of which corresponds with the copy
they have at the Dayton Library; however, The Orthodox Incarnation is identical.
April 10, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton is thankful and now he is asking
for the contents of the pages 13-16 of the Little Selection of Choice Poetry.
Also, he is asking if they are willing to sell some of the duplicates that
they have.
April 14, 1954
From Alene Lowe White.
Ms. Alene White is giving the contents on
the pages that Mr. Hamilton requested and informs him that they have no
duplicates.
April 16, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Alene Lowe White.
Mr. Hamilton is replying to an earlier letter
in which she gives him some information about her copy of Little Selection
of Choice Poetry. He asks whether her copies of the Orthodox Trinity,
which do not correspond with the copy he sent her, are all identical in
typography.
April 17, 1954
From Alene Lowe White to Mr. Hamilton.
Ms. White informs him that she unearthed a
fifth copy of Orthodox Trinity, and all five copies are different in typography,
arrangement on the pages, size of page, contents of last page, etc.
April 19, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Alene Lowe White.
He would like to have photostatic copies of
the first and last pages of her fifth variant issue of the Orthodox Trinity.
He wants to know if it is similar to the copy he sent her and if any of
the five is similar to the Orthodox Incarnation or the the Athanasian Creed,
both of which he has.
April 23, 1954
From Alene Lowe White to Mr. Hamilton.
She encloses the photostats he requested and
will send bibliographic cards later. Photostats are included for
six different copies of the Orthodox Trinity.
April 26, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Alene Lowe White.
He thanks her for the six groups of photostats
and asks her to check three of them (items BX9786/P707c, BX9759/A4 and
BX9759/M169) to see whether they contain part of the Athanasian Creed.
April 29, 1954
From Mr. Hamilton to Alene Lowe White.
He asks her to examine her copy of McNemar's
Shakerism Detected, the Lexington 1811 edition, for the exact wording of
the heading for the "Postscript" on page 107.
May 12, 1954
From Alene Lowe White to Mr. Hamilton.
She has two editions of McNemar's Shakerism
Detected, 1811 and 1833, with slightly different postscripts, copies of
which she has enclosed.
Attached:
Are the copies of the two postscripts.
Box 6, Folder 9, Williams College Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
September 19, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Miss Alida M. Stephens.
Mr. Hamilton is trying to locate duplicates
of the poem in the four page leaflet, The Church of Christ Unto the People.
. ., with a sentence printed at the end "written in the Church of New Lebanon
in the town of Canaan County. . ."
September 21, 1942
From Alida M. Stephens to Mr. Hamilton.
Miss Stephens informs Mr. Hamilton that their
library has this poem with the corrected date of 1804.
September 23, 1942
From Mr. Hamilton to Miss Stephens.
Mr. Hamilton thanks her for the information
and wants to know whether the numbers have been changed by the printer
or if it is just a manuscript correction.
September 25, 1942
Reply from Miss Stephens.
She says that the date is printed 1804 and
that this is not a manuscript correction.
November 12, 1952 - October 17, 1953
To or from Wyllis E. Wright, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Mr. Hamilton believes that Williams College
has the most extensive collection in the country on Shakers. Apparently,
Mr. Wright is collecting notes on the bibliography on the Shakers as is
Mr. Hamilton. He is helping him with everything he requested such
as The Western Expositor and the Western Review. Attached to the
first letter is a description of his copies of the Constitution of the
United Society of Believers, Watervliet (1833). Mr. Hamilton gives
facts concerning Epistle Dedicatory (1832) and Little Selection (1835)
and is asking for a description of their 10-page No. 7 of Western Review,
since MacLean's No. 369 speaks of it as Broadside. Mr. Wright says
that Shakers material, hymns, and several fragments all printed in Ohio
in the 1830's are definitely not part of McNemar's Selection of Hymns.
Mr. Hamilton got copies of different hymns from Mr. Wright and compared
them with the hymns owned by the Dayton Library and he is sending a copy
of McNemar's hymns, althought Mr. Hamilton is still wondering if some of
these unnumbered pages were actual fragments from the Stockbridge 1826
edition or reprints in different form. Mr. Wright verified that McNemar's
Dialogue was not a fragment and, since he had a duplicate copy, he donated
one to the Dayton Library. Finally, in his last letter Mr. Wright
states that their library has no record of Memorable Events and gives suggestions
of its possible location.
October 7, 1953
From Mr. Wyllis E. Wright to Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. Wright is sending the pamphlet that Mr. Hamilton requested,
Western Review, no. 7.
October 17, 1953
From Wyllis E. Wright.
Mr. Wright writes that he has no record of Memorable Events in
the Life of Richard McNemar and gives suggestions of its possible location.
Box 6, Folder 10, Miscellaneous correspondence
November 15, l897[?]
Phelps, N.A. “Quaint Shakers Will Soon Become a Tradition: Their Thrift,
their Industry and Kindness”. Source unknown.
August l945
Watervleit Ave and the Shakertown Pike: typescript, by Charles F. Sullivan,
Dayton, Ohio.
July 6, 1975
From F. W. Meader, director of the Shaker Museums Foundation, Inc.
in Old Chatham, N.Y., to Miss Laurie Smith, Dayton Collection Librarian,
at the Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library.
Mr. Meader is asking Miss Smith if he could secure a xerox copy
of the publication owned by the Dayton Library called Shakers of Ohio:
the Fugitive Papers Concerning the Shakers of Ohio, with Unpublished Manuscript.
Attached:
July 14, 1975
From Lewis E. Goodman, Dayton Library, to Mr. Robert F. W. Meader.
Mr. Goodman replies to Mr. Robert Meader and tells him that it
is possible for him to secure a xerox copy of the above mentioned publication,
but he has to make arrangements with the Gem City Blue Print and Supply
Company in Dayton.
October 26, 1983
From Leon S. Bey, Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library, to
Ms. Maria Dos Santos in Troy, New York.
Ms. Dos Santos wanted information for a manufacturer called Woodenward,
that made wagons and brooms; Mr. Bey replied that the Dayton & Montgomery
County Public Library has some reference material pertaining to this company;
he also gave the name of Ms. Melba Hunt, director of Kettering-Moraine
Museum, who, according to Mr. Bey, is an expert on the Dayton Shakers.
November 1, 1983
From Mrs. Jean Mulhern, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio,
to Mr. Leon Bey.
Mrs. Mulhern was informed that Mr. Bey is doing research on Watervliet
and wants to know if there were any black Shakers in Watervliet since she
knows that there were black Shakers in other settlements.
Attached:
November 1, 1983
From Mr. L. Bey to Mrs. Jean Mulhern.
Mr. Bey says that there were no black Shakers in Watervliet.
Aug. 4, l995
“Annual Shaker Study Group Picnic and Tour of Marble Hall”, Western
Shaker Study Group.
No date
America’s First Shaker Settlement: brochure, Shaker Heritage Society,
Albany, New York.
Attached:
Rules for Doing Good: card
Attached:
Be What you Seem to be: card by Father James
August 19, 1999
From James C. Thomas to Mr. Robert Phillips.
A thank you letter for a donation of $100 in memory of Randy L. Folger,
a previous member at Pleasant Hill.
Box 6, Folder 11, Notes of Mr. William J. Hamilton on J. P. McLean's
bibliography.
The contents of this folder constitute the notes and findings
of Mr. Hamilton that helped him untangle MacLean's bibliography.
