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LIBRARY  OF  CONGRESS 


REPORT 


OF  THE 


LIBRARIAN   OF   CONGRESS 


AND 


REPORT 


OF   THE 


SUPERINTENDENT  OF  THE  LIBRARY 
BUILDING   AND   GROUNDS 


FOR   THE 


FISCAL   YEAR   ENDING  JUNE  30,   1906 


WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT   PRINTING    OFFICE 

1906 


7 


TABLE   OF    CONTENTS 


Page 

List  of  Officers 5 

Report  of  the  Librarian 7 

Report  of  the  Superintendent  of   the   Library  Building  and 

Grounds 69 

Appendix  la.  Appropriations  and  expenditures  (tables) ...         83 

Ib.  Appropriation  acts,  1906-7 85 

II.  Report  of  the  Register  of  Copyrights 91 

III.  Copyright  bill.     Statement  of  the  Librarian 

of  Congress in 

IV.  Manuscripts:  Accessions,  1905-6 127 

V.  Division  of  Prints:  Collection  of  prints,  origi- 
nal   drawings,  water-color  paintings,  and 
illustrated  books   by  celebrated  Japanese 
artists.      Given  by  Mr.   Crosby  S.   Noyes, 
Washington,  D.  C 141 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


The  Library  of  Congress     Exterior  view 

Plan  of  the  cellar 

Plan  of  the  basement 

Plan  of  the  first  or  main  floor 

Plan  of  the  second  floor 

Plan  of  the  attic     . 

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LIST  OF  OFFICERS 


LIBRARIANS  SINCE  THE  INCEPTION  OF  THE  LIBRARY 

1802-1807 — John  Beckley,  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  and 

Librarian 
1807-1815 — Patrick  Magruder,  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives 

and  Librarian 

1815-1829 — George  Watterston 
1829-1861 — John  Silva  Meehan 
1861-1864 — John  G.  Stephenson 
1864-1897  (June  30} — Ainsworth  Rand  Spofford 
f$97  (Jufy  i}-January  77,  1899 — John  Russell  Young 
1899  (April 5} — Herbert  Putnam 

LIBRARY  STAFF 

GENERAI,  ADMINISTRATION 

HERBERT  PUTNAM — Librarian  of  Congress 
AINSWORTH  RAND  SPOFFORD — Chief  Assistant  Librarian 
Allen  Richards  Boyd— Chief  Clerk 
Margaret  Drake  McGuffey — Secretary 

DIVISIONS 

Reading  Rooms — David   Hutcheson,  Superintendent;  John   Graham 
Morrison,  Hugh  Alexander  Morrison,  chief  assistants.     Reading 
Room  for  the  Blind — Esther  Josselyn  Giffin,  assistant  in  charge 
Division  of  Bibliography — Appleton  Prentiss  Clark  Griffin,  Chief 
Card  Section— Charles  Harris  Hastings,  in  charge 
Catalogue  Division — James  Christian  Meinich  Hanson,  Chief;  Charles 

Martel,  Chief  Classifier 

Division  of  Documents — James  David  Thompson,  Chief 
Division  of  Manuscripts — Worthington  Chauncey  Ford,  Chief 
Division  of  Maps  and  Charts— Philip  Lee  Phillips,  Chief 
Division  of  Music — Oscar  George  Theodore  Sonneck,  Chief 
Order  Division — Hermann  Henry  Bernard  Meyer,  Chief 
Division  of  Periodicals — Claude  Bernard  Guittard,  Chief 
Division  of  Prints — Arthur  Jeffrey  Parsons,  Chief 
Smithsonian  Deposit — Paul  Brockett,  Custodian  (office  at  Smithsonian 

Institution);  Francis  Henry  Parsons,  Assistant  in  charge 
Law  Library — George  Winfield  Scott,  Custodian 

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COPYRIGHT   OFFICE 

TnoRVAivD  SOXBERG,  Register 

LIHKAKV    liRAXCH.    OOYKKXMKXT    PRINTING    OFFICE 

Printing — William  Henr}-  Fisher,  foreman 
Binding — Henry  Clay  Kspey,  foreman 

I.II'.KAKY  BUILDING  AND  GROUNDS 

BERNARD  RICHARDSOX  GREEN — Superintendent 

George  Norris  French,  Chief  Clerk 

Charles  Benjamin  Titlow,  Chief  Engineer 

Damon  Warren  Harding,  Electrician 

John  Yanderbilt  \Vurdemann,  Captain  of  the  watch 


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REPORT 

OF 

THE  LIBRARIAN  OF  CONGRESS 


LIBRARY  OF  CONGRESS 
Washington,  D.  C.,  December 3,  1906 
SIR  :  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  my  report  as  Librarian 
of  Congress  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1906. 

FINANCE 

The  following  table  exhibits  the  appropriations  and  ex- 
penditures of  the  Library  proper  and  of  the  Copyright 
Office  for  the  fiscal  year  and  the  appropriations  for  the 
year  now  current.  Details  are  given  in  Appendix  la.  In- 
cluded also  are  the  appropriations  for  the  equipment  and 
care  of  the  building  and  grounds,  expended  by  the  Super- 
intendent. The  allotment  for  printing  and  binding  (during 
the  past  year  $185,000)  is  not  included. 


Object  of  appropriation 

Appropria- 
tions, 1905 

Appropria- 
tions, 1906 

Expendi- 
tures, 1906 

Appropria- 
tions, 1907 

Library  and  Copyright  Office: 

$236  660  oo 

Salaries,  special  service  

a  2,  090.  oo 

02,694.94 

a  2,  479.  16 

a  2,  215.  78 

Salaries,  Sunday  service  

10,000.00 

IO,  OOO.  OO 

9,74L99 

IO,  OOO.  OO 

Salaries,   distribution  of  card 

67  798  18 

Salaries,  indexes,  digests,  and 
compilation  of  laws  . 

5,  840.  oo 

Salaries,  Copyright  Office  

o  74,  700.  oo 

c  74,  700.  oo 
d  98  ooo  oo 

075,300.00 

7  300  oo 

7,  300.  oo 

7,  289  1  6 

Total  Library  and  Copyright 
Office  

437,35o.oo 

437,  154-  94 

435,  242.  13 

447,  215.  78 

Building  and  grounds: 

Care  and  maintenance  

76,  785.  oo 

77,  505-  oo 

77,  034-  86 

77,  505.  oo 

Fuel,  light,  and  miscellaneous. 

32,  500.  oo 

32,  500.  oo 

32,  460.  29 

32,  500.  oo 

Furniture  and  shelving  

40,  ooo.  oo 

40,  ooo.  oo 

39,900.82 

20,  000.  00 

Plans  for  newspaper  stack  . 

Grand  total  

589,  435.  oo 

589,  959-  94 

587,414.61 

582,  520.  78 

a  Including  balance  brought  forward. 

bThis  expenditure  is  offset  by  subscriptions  covered  into  the  Treasury  during 


the  past  year,  $16,746.97  actually  applied 
cThis  expenditure  is  offset  b 


y  fees  covered  into  the  Treasury  during  the  past 
year,  $80,198. 

d  Exclusive  of  $1,500  to  be  expended  by  the  marshal  of  the  Supreme  Court  for 
new  books  for  that  body. 


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ti'*nspr°pr'a'  As  will  be  seen,  the  appropriations  for  the  past  year  were 
substantially  identical  with  those  for  the  preceding.  There 
was  no  increase  of  employees  or  in  the  salaries  of  particular 
positions.  Only  two  additional  positions  had,  in  fact,  been 
requested:  One  of  a  stenographer  for  the  Periodical  Division, 
at  $900;  the  other  of  a  clerk,  at  $600,  in  the  Copyright  Office. 
These  have  now  been  granted  (effective  July  i,  1906).  One 
increase  of  salary  also,  carrying  a  change  of  designation,  or 
rather  the  creation  of  a  distinctive  office — that  of  Chief 
Classifier — was  provided  at  the  last  session;  and  of  the 
remaining  nine  heretofore  recommended  annually  in  my 
estimates  as  necessary  to  a  fair  adjustment  of  the  roll,  two 
have  been  withdrawn,  leaving  only  seven  now  to  be  sought. 
The  recommendations  for  these  are  again  repeated  in  my 
estimates  for  the  coming  year.  An  increase  of  $3,000 
(effective  July  i,  1906)  for  the  Card  Section  includes  a 
special  provision  for  traveling  and  transportation  expenses 
in  connection  with  the  sale  and  distribution  of  the  printed 
cards.  The  appropriation  for  the  increase  of  the  Library 
(for  which  $100,000  was  asked)  remains  still  at  $90,000. 
The  request  for  the  full  amount  is  repeated  in  my  estimates 
for  1907-8.  Repeated  also  is  the  recommendation  for  a 
grant  ($28,000)  for  the  compilation  of  an  Index  to  Compara- 
tive Legislation.  A  recent  provision  for  certain  work  of  a 

Law  Indexes 

cognate  nature  in  connection  with  the  Law  Library  has 
been  induced  by  a  realization  of  its  importance.  The  pro- 
vision, incorporated  in  the  sundry  civil  act  for  the  present 
year,  is  as  follows: 

' '  To  SYSTEMATIZE  THE  PREPARATION  OF  LAW  IN- 
DEXES   AND    SO    FORTH    AND    TO    PROVIDE    TRAINED 

LAW  CLERKS  THEREFOR:  To  enable  the  Librarian  of 
Congress  to  direct  the  Law  Librarian  to  prepare  a 
new  index  to  the  Statutes  at  Large,  in  accordance  with 
a  plan  previously  approved  by  the  Judiciary  Commit- 
tees of  both  Houses  of  Congress,  and  to  prepare  such 


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other  indexes,  digests,  and  compilations  of  law  as 
may  be  required  for  Congress  and  other  official  use, 
five  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty  dollars  to  pay 
for  five  additional  assistants  in  the  Law  Library:  One 
at  eighteen  hundred  dollars,  one  at  twelve  hundred 
dollars,  one  at  nine  hundred  dollars,  and  two  at  seven 
hundred  and  twenty  dollars  each,  and  for  the  Law 
Librarian  five  hundred  dollars,  the  said  sum  to  be  paid 
to  the  Law  Librarian  notwithstanding  seventeen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-five  of  the  Revised  Statutes. ' ' 

SERVICE 

Mr.  Thomas  G.  Alvord,  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Library  under  Resignations 
my  predecessor,  and  continuing  so  for  six  and  a  half  years 
of  my  own  administration,  left  us  a  year  ago  to  resume 
newspaper  work  under  very  attractive  conditions.  His  en- 
thusiasm, interest,  loyalty,  and  unfailing  good  humor 
laid  the  service  under  obligations  which  I  very  cordially 
acknowledge. 

Mr.  Edward  L-  Burchard,  in  the  service  of  the  Library 
since  May  i,  1904,  in  charge  of  our  publications  and  Chief 
of  the  Order  Division,  was  compelled  by  personal  affairs 
requiring  his  attention  to  withdraw  from  our  service  on 
July  i  last.  He  brought  additional  efficiency  to  the  con- 
duct of  the  Order  Division  and  the  system  in  operation 
there,  and  the  improvements  effected  by  him  in  his  other 
capacity — in  the  style  and  quality  of  the  Library  publica- 
tions— have  not  merely  established  new  standards  for  these, 
but  will  be  likely  to  influence  the  style  and  quality  of  our 
Government  publications  in  general.  The  most  notable 
volumes  issued  by  the  Library — the  History  of  the  Library, 
the  Journals  of  the  Continental  Congress,  the  Catalog  of 
the  Hubbard  Collection,  the  A.  L.  A.  Catalog,  the  Por- 
trait Index,  and  the  Records  of  the  Virginia  Company— 
were  produced  under  his  advice  and  direction  as  to  form, 
paper,  typography,  illustration,  and  all  other  details  of 


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manufacture.  In  various  respects  they  represent  a  depar- 
ture from  the  traditions  of  the  Government  Printing  Office, 
which  has  been  recognized  by  the  public  and  by  the  Office 
itself  to  be  most  creditable. 

Mr.  Allan  B.  Slauson  left  us  a  year  ago  to  engage  in  busi- 
ness in  the  West.  He  had  been  Chief  of  the  Periodical 
Division  from  the  date  of  his  entrance  into  the  service  Sep- 
tember i,  1897.  When  he  took  charge  the  material  lay  for 
the  most  part,  unmeasured  tons  of  it,  in  heaps  upon  the 
floors  of  the  two  great  rooms  now  the  Catalogue  Room  and 
Periodical  Reading  Room.  His  initial  and  principal  task 
was  to  assort  it  and  reduce  it  to  order  and  arrange  it  upon 
the  shelves,  a  task  of  prodigious  labor  and  infinite  and 
tedious  detail.  The  industry  which  he  and  his  assistants 
applied  to  it  did  not,  even  in  eight  years,  bring  it  to  com- 
pletion, but  advanced  it  so  far  that  its  completion  can  be 
accomplished  within  the  early  future  as  an  incident  to 
the  other  work  of  the  Periodical  Division,  whose  main  work 
must  now  be,  as  it  has  been  for  six  years  past,  the  conduct 
of  the  Periodical  Reading  Room  and  the  handling  of  cur- 
rent accessions. 

Appointments  f  o  the  vacancy  in  the  office  of  Chief  Clerk  there  was 
transferred  Mr.  Allen  R.  Boyd,  of  the  Library  service  since 
June  i,  1899,  and  Secretary  since  that  office  was  created. 
The  Secretaryship  has  been  filled  by  the  appointment  of 
Miss  Margaret  D.  McGuffey,  for  nine  years  chief  of  the 
Issue  Department  at  the  Boston  Public  Library. 

Mr.  Burchard's  place  has  been  taken  by  Mr.  H.  H.  B. 
Meyer,  a  member  of  the  Library  service  since  January  3, 
1905,  and  from  January  till  July  of  the  present  year  in  tem- 
porary conduct  of  the  Periodical  Division.  Mr.  Claude  B. 
Guittard,  a  member  of  the  Library  service  from  September 
i,  1903,  until  September  i,  1904,  and  since  then  Librarian 
of  the  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey,  has  returned  to  take 
charge  of  the  Periodical  Division. 


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Among  the  losses  to  the  Library  by  resignation  among 
the  principal  assistants,  a  recent  one  seriously  felt  in  our 
classification  is  that  of  Mr.  A.  F.  W.  Schmidt.  He  leaves 
us  to  become  librarian  and  assistant  professor  of  German 
in  George  Washington  University. 

The  newly  designated  office  of  ' '  Chief  Classifier ' '  has,  of 
course,  been  filled  by  Mr.  Charles  Martel,  who  has  had 
actual  charge  of  the  reclassification  since  its  beginning. 

COPYRIGHT    OFFICE 

The  report  of  the  Register  of  Copyrights  appears  in  full 
as  Appendix  II. 

The    principal    statistics  of    the   business     done    are    as  COPYRIGHT.- 

Statistics 

follows : 


Fees  received  and 
applied 

Fiscal  years  — 

1900-1901 

1901-2 

1902-3 

1903-4 

i904-5 

1905-6 

Domestic    (50    cents) 

$41,906.50 
8,  538.  oo 

$42,  172.50 
8,633.00 

$44,  340.  oo 
9,  299.  oo 

$46,  360.  oo 
10,410.00 

$51,772.00 
9,  830.  oo 

$54,  080.  50 
9,543-oo 

Foreign  ($i)  entries.  .  . 

For  certificates  

12,  569-  50 

13,  223.  50 

14,  423.  oo 

14,556.00 

15,607.00 

15,819.50 

For   assignments   re- 
corded   

641.  oo 

32.50 

636.00 

22.00 

770.00 
42.50 

1,273.00 
30.00 

808.00 
41.00 

738.00 
17.00 

For  searches  
Total  

63,687.50 

64,687.00 

68,874.50 

72,  629.  oo 

78,  058.  oo 

80,  198.  oo 

Total  number  of  de- 

posits received  (ma- 

terial of  all  classes, 

including      d  u  p  1  i- 
cates)  

162,  283 

92,351 

169,  726 
92,  978 

177.519 

97,  979 

184,  799 
103,  130 

207,  424 

"3,374 

211,138 
117,704 

Total  number  of  en- 
tries             

Total  communica- 

tions   received,    in- 

cluding parcels,  but 

excluding    deposits 
noted  above  

78,457 

79,  143 

77,009 

73,  478 

84,063 

87,564 

Total  communica- 

tions  sent   out  (in- 

cluding letters  writ- 
ten) 

114,763 

118,264 

121,249       129,600 

137,  779 

145,  020 

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It  will  be  noted  that  during  the  past  year  the  number 
of  entries  has  reached  117,704. 

The  fees  from  copyrights  are  covered  into  the  Treas- 
ury and  not  applied  directly  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
Copyright  Office.  They  form  a  regular  revenue  of  the 
Government,  however,  and  a  net  revenue  over  the  direct 
expenses  of  the  Office,  as  appears  from  the  following 
comparison : 

COPYRIGHT  OF-  RECEIPTS 

FICE: 

Receipts  awrfFees  covered  in  during  the  fiscal  year  1905-6,  as  above. .  .   $So,  198.  oo 
expenses 

EXPENSES 

Salaries,  as  stated $74,  536.  67 

Stationery  and  sundries i,  055.  89 

•     75,  592.  56 


Net  cash  earnings 4,  605.  44 

The  amount  expended  for  salaries  ($74,536.67)  includes 
the  sum  of  $4,680  paid  in  salaries  to  certain  employees 
who  have  been  classif)dng  and  crediting  the  old  deposits 
received  prior  to  1897.  This  expenditure  is  chargeable 
to  arrears.  The  current  expenses  of  the  Office  are  there- 
fore considerably  more  than  met  by  the  current  receipts. 

The  above  statement  includes  all  disbursements  except 
the  cost  of  furniture,  of  printing,  and  of  binding,  but  only 
casJi  receipts. 

In  addition  to  cash  fees  the  copyright  business  brings 
each  year  to  the  Government,  in  the  articles  deposited,  prop- 
erty to  the  value  of  many  thousands  of  dollars.  During 
the  past  fiscal  year  211,138  such  articles  were  received.  The 
value  of  those  drawn  up  into  the  collections  of  the  Library 
far  exceeded  the  amount  of  net  cash  earnings. 

The  work  of  the  Copyright  Office  is  divided  into  two 
portions:  (i)  The  current  business,  covering  applications 
received  since  the  reorganization  of  the  Office  under  the 
Register  in  1897;  (2)  the  arrears,  the  classification,  credit- 


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ing,  and  indexing  of  the  entries  and  deposits  prior  to  1897 
(i.  e.,  from  1870,  when  the  copyright  business  was  first 
placed  under  the  Librarian  of  Congress). 

On  the  5th  day  of  July,  1906,  when  the  report  of  the  Copy-  COPYRIGHT  OF- 
right  Office  was  submitted,  the  remittances  received  up  to    Current  busi- 
the  third  mail  of  the  day  had  been  recorded  and  acknowl- 
edged; the  account  books  of  the  bookkeeping  division  were 
written  up  and  posted  to  June  30,  and  the  accounts  rendered 
to  the  Treasury  Department  were  settled  up  to  and  includ- 
ing the  month  of  June,  while  earned  fees  to  June  30,  inclu- 
sive, had  been  paid  into  the  Treasury. 

All  copyright  applications  received  up  to  and  during 
June  30  had  been  passed  upon  and  refunds  made.  The 
total  unfinished  business  for  the  full  nine  years  from  July  i , 
1897,  to  June  30,  1906,  amounts  to  but  $366.96,  as  against 
a  total  of  completed  business  for  the  same  period  of 
$607,533.50. 

At  the  close  of  business  on  July  5,  1906,  notwithstanding 
the  intervening  Sunday  and  holiday  (July  4),  the  titles  for 
record  in  all  classes  had  been  dated,  classified,  and  numbered 
to  July  3.  All  titles  had  been  indexed  up  to  June  30. 

The  articles  of  all  classes  deposited  during  the  year  had 
been  stamped,  catalogued,  and  credited  up  to  the  receipts 
of  June  30,  inclusive,  except  Class  A,  books  II  and  III,  to 
June  23,  and  Class  D,  dramatic  compositions,  to  June  25. 

The  Catalogue  of  Title  Entries  had  been  brought  forward 
to  No.  782  of  June  28,  1906. 

The  certificate  and  noncertificate  entries  had  been  recorded 
to  June~3o,  inclusive,  and  certificates  and  notices  of  entry 
to  the  same  date  made,  revised,  and  mailed. 

Credited  articles  to  the  number  of  50,045  (including  1,328  Co^™OHT  °F~ 
pamphlets,  26,636  periodicals,  13,261  musical  compositions,     The  arrears 
2,710  cuts  and  prints,  and  3,064  photographs)  have  been 
properly  filed  away  under  year  and  number.     In  the  work 


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COPYRIGHT  OF-  of  creditmg  deposits,  27,928  articles  were  handled  and  25,61 1 
Arrears  articles  (including  12,495  musical  compositions,  1,200  maps, 
2,698  cuts  and  prints,  and  5,352  photographs)  were  credited 
and  properly  filed  away.  In  the  case  of  2,317  articles, 
identification  and  credit  could  not  be  made,  and  they  were 
accordingly  indexed  and  filed. 

Index  cards  (title  and  proprietor)  for  dramatic  composi- 
tions to  the  number  of  17,840  and  for  photographs  to  the 
number  of  16,220  were  written. 

At  the  cloce  of  business  June  30,  1906,  there  remained 
uncredited  in  the  files  of  the  Copyright  Office  118,734 
articles  deposited  prior  to  July  i,  1897,  as  follows: 

Pamphlets  and  leaflets 34,  444 

Periodical  numbers 16,  091 

Musical  compositions 44,  087 

Insurance  maps 7,  190 

Engravings,  cuts,  and  prints 7,  384 

Chromos 2,  362 

Posters 2,  969 

Articles  which  could  not  be  credited 4,  207 

Total 1 18,  734 

During  the  past  nine  years  the  business  done  by  the 
Office  shows  the  following: 

Total  number  of  entries 868,  827 

Total  number  of  articles  deposited i,  487,  281 

Total  amount  of  fees  received  and  applied $607,  533.  50 

Total  expenditure  for  service $502,  1 24.  89 

Net  receipts  above  expenses  for  service $105,  408.  61 

During  the  thirty  six  years  since  the  copyright  work 
became  a  business  of  the  Library  of  Congress  the  total 
number  of  entries  has  been  1,749,683. 

In  my  report  for  1905  (pp.  85-94)  I  described  the  con- 
ferences looking  to  a  revision  and  consolidation  of  the 
United  States  copyright  laws.  The  two  held  in  May  and 
November,  1905,  were  succeeded  by  a  third  in  March, 
1906.  With  the  aid  of  the  advisory  committees  of  the  bar 


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associations  represented,  a  bill  was  then  drawn  which  was 
introduced  concurrently  in  the  Senate  and  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives May  31,  1906.  A  first  hearing  upon  this  was 
given  by  the  committees  on  Patents  of  the  two  Houses, 
sitting  as  a  Joint  Committee  at  the  Library  June  6-9,  1906. 
The  bill  is  still  in  committee. 

The  nature  of  the  conferences  and  of  the  participation  in 
them  was  described  in  my  last  report.  Their  limitations, 
in  particular,  were  emphasized  in  my  introductory  remarks 
to  the  delegates,  quoted  on  pages  90-91  of  that  report. 
They  were  reiterated  in  my  remarks  to  the  committees  on 
Patents  relating  the  history  of  the  bill  at  the  first  hearing. 
(See  Appendix  III.) 

The  conferences  were  of  interests  concerned  affirmatively — 
that  is,  in  a  broader  or  more  definite  protection;  and  the 
relation  of  the  Copyright  Office  to  them  was  that  of  organ- 
izer and  interpreter.  Demands  for  a  revision  of  the  copy- 
right laws  had  been  numerous  and  from  various  sources. 
The  Office  undertook  to  organize  them  and  give  them  ex- 
pression in  a  form  convenient  for  the  consideration  of  Con- 
gress. But  this  was  the  limit  of  its  undertaking.  It  aided 
in  the  framing  of  a  bill;  but  it  had  no  authority  to  make  a 
law.  It  did  not  deliberately  include  in  the  bill  any  matter 
inappropriate  to  a  copyright  law;  but  it  included  particular 
provisions  as  to  whose  justice  or  expediency  it  could  itself 
offer  no  assurance  to  Congress.  Its  duty  was  to  insert  these 
in  their  logical  place  in  the  bill,  calling  them  to  the  atten- 
tion of  the  committee  as  specially  distinguishable  from  the 
more  general  provisions,  and  emphasizing  that  their  pres- 
ence in  the  bill  was  based  upon  ex  parte  representations 
alone,  the  negative  being  yet  to  be  heard.  This  it  did.  (See 
my  remarks  to  the  committee,  pp.  111-125  of  this  Report) 
The  effect  was  to  reduce  these  provisions  to  the  status  which 
they  would  have  occupied  if  presented  to  Congress  in  a  sepa- 


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rate  bill,  as  was  quite  within  the  power  of  the  interests  con- 
cerned in  them. 

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All  of  the  above  (the  nature  of  the  conferences,  the  rela- 
tion of  the  Copyright  Office  to  them  and  the  bill,  and  the 
status  of  provisions  such  as  these)  was  understood  by  the 
conferences,  and,  I  believe,  by  the  committee.  I  recite  it 
here  because  of  some  misunderstanding  on  the  part  of  others 
who  have  referred  to  the  conferences  as  if  gatherings  for  the 
judicial  determination  of  the  propriety  of  such  provisions, 
at  which  the  L/ibrarian  and  Register  sat  as  a  commission 
empowered  to  draft  a  law;  and  who  have  contended,  there- 
fore, that  the  omission  from  them  of  representatives  of  the 
opposition  was  singularly  unjudicial,  and  indeed  suspicious. 

INCREASE    OF    THE    LIBRARY 

Contents  of  the      Adopting  the  count  of  printed  books  and  pamphlets  in 

Library  June  30, 

igos,andjune jo,  June,  I9O2,  as  being  accurate,  the  total  contents  of  the 
Library,  inclusive  of  the  L,aw  Library,  at  the  close  of  the 
past  two  fiscal  years  were  as  follows: 


Description 

1905 

I9O6 

Gain 

Books 

Maps  and  charts  (pieces)  
Music  (pieces)  

$2,476 
4IO,  352 

89,869 

437  5IG 

7,393 
27,  158 

Prints 

ACCKSSIONS: 

Printed     books 
and  pamphlets     as  follows: 


«  Not  capable  of  precise  estimate. 

The  accessions  of  the  past  two  years  in  detail  have  been 


1905 

1906 

Printed  books  and  pamphlets 

68  951 

34  626 

Manuscripts  (report  omitted)  

Maps  and  charts  (pieces)  

6,615 

7.393 
27  158 

Prints  (  pieces)  
Miscellaneous  

25,  273 

200 

30,  552 
1,819 

Net  accessions 


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The  accessions  of  books  and  pamphlets  during  the  past 
two  years  in  detail,  classified  by  source,  have  been  as 
follows: 


Acquired 

i9°5 

1906 

22   998 

15  248 

Bv  gift 

16,  348 

9  542 

By  transfer  from.  United  States  Government  libraries  

15,  470 

14,  062 

815 

546 

By  international  exchange  (from  foreign  Governments).  .    
Gifts  from  State  and  local  governments,  corporations,  etc  

6,474 
4,704 
ii,  763 

3,522 
5,584 
9,  177 

7  §04 

6  661 

2  832 

2  441 

(a) 

461 

library  of  Congress  publications  specially  bound  
Gain  of  volumes  by  completion  of  periodicals  and  separation  in 

(6) 
6,  748 

168 
I3  973 

95  75^ 

8  1  385 

WITHDRAWN 

Through  consolidation  in  binding  

8,843 

10,  373 

Duplicates  sent  in  exchange  c  

17,962 

36,  386 

Total       

26,  805 

46,  759 

68  951 

34  626 

a  No  separate  record. 

b  No  record. 

o  Including  documents  returned  to  the  Superintendent  of  Documents. 

Among  recent  purchases  of  interest  is  the  collection  of    shaker  litera- 
ture 
Shaker  literature  brought  together  by  Prof.  J.  P.  MacL,ean, 

of  Franklin,  Ohio.  Professor  MacL,ean  was  engaged  in  mak- 
ing this  collection  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and  it  is 
now  believed  to  be  the  most  complete  in  existence.  Much 
of  it  is  of  the  most  fugitive  character,  consisting  of  leaf- 
lets, tracts,  and  pamphlets,  and  the  collection  could  hardly 
be  duplicated  with  the  expenditure  of  even  the  most  diligent 
effort.  It  comprises  113  books,  320  pamphlets,  48  broad- 
sides, and  6  manuscripts. 

Among  the  accessions  of  printed  material  by  gift  has  been    shoemaker 
the  Shoemaker  collection.     This  came  from  Mr.  Charles  G. 
Shoemaker,  as  executor  of   the  will  of  his  uncle,  William 


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Lukens  Shoemaker,  of  Washington,  who  died  on  February 
8,  1906.     The  bequest  was  as  follows: 

"I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Library  of  Congress  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  all  such  books,  pamphlets,  and  edi- 
tions of  books  in  my  library  as  are  not  already  in  that 
national  collection,  together  with  such  duplicate  vol- 
umes as  may  be  deemed  desirable  by  the  Librarian  of 
Congress  to  be  preserved  therein,  the  only  condition 
attached  to  this  bequest  being  that  in  each  volume  or 
pamphlet  there  shall  be  affixed  a  printed  label  stating 
briefly  the  same  to  be  from  my  collection  by  bequest. ' ' 

Under  the  above  terms  the  Library  has  its  choice  of  2,020 
volumes  and  549  pamphlets.  The  selection  is  now  in  process. 

The  \vill  of  the  late  Samuel  Hay  Kauffmann,  of  Wash- 
ington, dated  October  25,  1905,  and  offered  for  probate 
March  22,  1906,  contains  the  following  bequest: 

' '  My  collection  of  books,  papers,  etc. ,  relating  to 
the  art  of  printing  and  allied  interests,  now  stored  in 
one  of  the  rooms  in  The  Evening  Star  building,  I 
give  and  bequeath  to  the  Library  of  Congress  on  condi- 
tion that  it  be  kept  together  intact  in  a  suitable  room 
or  alcove  to  be  set  apart  for  that  purpose,  and  that  a 
bookplate  or  label  be  placed  in  each  volume,  which 
shall  show  in  proper  terms  whence  they  came  to '  the 
Library.  Otherwise  the  said  collection  shall  revert  to 
and  become  a  part  of  the  residue  of  my  estate. ' ' 

On  examination  of  the  collection  it  was  found  that  most 
of  the  books  would  duplicate  copies  already  in  the  Library 
of  Congress,  and  the  conditions  proposed  did  not  seem 
feasible. 

The  late  Woodbury  Lowery,  of  Washington,  D.  C., 
scholarly  investigator,  and  historian  of  the  early  Spanish 
settlements  in  this  hemisphere,  died  in  Sicily  April  1 1,  1906, 
leaving  in  his  will,  dated  the  5th  of  July,  1904,  the  follow- 
ing important  bequest: 


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"I  give,  devise,  and  bequeath  unto  the  Library  of 
Congress,  in  the  city  of  Washington,  in  the  District  of 
Columbia,  my  collection  of  Manuscripts,  to  wit: 

"Eighteen  (18)  volumes  (including  the  Indexes)  of 
Copies  of  Manuscripts  relating  to  Florida,  New  Mex- 
ico, California,  etc.,  bound  with  white  parchment  backs, 
Two  (2)  volumes  of  original  Manuscripts  entitled: 
(i)  'Manuscritos  historicos; '  (2)  '  Visitas  de  Presidios 
por  Rubi,  etc.' 

"The  anonymous  original  manuscript  entitled:  '  De- 
scripcion  Historica,  Cronologica,  etc.,  de  la  Florida.' 

' '  My  manuscript  entitled :  '  A  Preliminary  List  of 
Maps  of  the  Spanish  Possessions  within  the  present 
Limits  of  the  United  States. ' 

"  I  also  give,  devise,  and  bequeath  unto  the  same  the 
following  printed  books  and  maps,  to  wit: 

( i )  "  '  Alonso  de  Molina,  Vocabulario  en  la  Lengua 
Castellana  y  Mexicana,'  printed  in  Mexico  in  1555;  (2) 
The  Biblia  Mariana;  (3)  '  II  Principe'  of  Machiavelli, 
printed  at  Venice,  1550;  (4)  my  collection  of  maps, 
with  the  condition  that  it  be  preserved  intact  and  be 
known  as  the  Lowery  Collection  of  Maps  relating  to  the 
Spanish  possessions  within  the  present  limits  of  the 
United  States. 

"  I  also  give,  devise,  and  bequeath  unto  the  same  the 
photographic  negatives  of  manuscript  maps  contained 
in  two  boxes  marked  '  Negatives  of  manuscript  maps. ' 

' '  I  also  direct  that  the  Librarian  of  Congress  be  al- 
lowed to  select  for  the  Library  of  Congress,  from  among 
the  following  books  in  my  library,  such  works  as  may 
not  at  the  time  be  in  the  possession  of  the  Library  of 
Congress,  to  wit: 

' '  ( i )  Books  relating  to  the  history  of  Florida,  Texas, 
New  Mexico,  California,  and  Mexico;  (2)  books  on 
palmistry;  (3)  books  on  Jewish  history;  (4)  my 
Spanish  books  generally." 

The  paragraphs  which  follow,  descriptive  of  the  accessions 
to  the  several  particular  divisions  of  the  Library — Manu- 
scripts, Documents,  Law,  Maps  and  Charts,  Music,  Period- 


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ical,  Prints — are  in  the  main  (in  the  case  of  the  Manuscripts 
verbatim)  drawn  from  the  reports  of  their  respective  chiefs 
to  the  Librarian. 

DIVISION    OF    MANUSCRIPTS 

The  usual  list  of  accessions  to  the  Manuscripts  Division, 
by  gift  and  by  purchase,  during  the  fiscal  year  1906  is 
given  in  Appendix  IV.  It  here  remains  briefly  to  note  the 
more  important. 

In  size  and  in  importance  of  content  the  gift  of  Dr.  Stuy- 

I'an     Bur  en  J 

papers  vesant  Fish  Morris,  of  New  York,  must  rank  first  among 

the  accessions  of  the  year.  In  my  last  report  (p.  25)  I 
recorded  a  gift  received  from  Doctor  Morris  of  860  letters 
addressed  to  Martin  Van  Buren,  with  printed  circulars  and 
broadsides.  In  the  last  year  he  has  added  about  1,700  like 
letters  and  political  issues,  being  what  remained  of  the  Van 
Buren  collection,  outside  of  a  -few  family  letters  which  he 
wished  to  retain.  This  last  gift  included  much  of  Van 
Buren' s  own  writings,  drafts  of  letters,  dispatches,  addresses, 
and  state  papers,  and  proved  to  be  particulary  rich  upon 
the  political  events  of  his  own  Administration — tariff  and 
banking,  the  Subtreasury,  foreign  trade,  Texas,  and  slavery. 
Nearly  one-half  of  the  1,700  papers  pertain  to  the  period 
of  his  Presidential  service  and  the  four  preceding  years 
when  he  was  Vice- President,  and  constitute  an  unique  record 
of  that  troublous  period,  when  a  radical  change  was 
made  in  the  fiscal  machinery  of  the  Government,  accom- 
panied by  a  financial  crisis  that  had  not  been  equaled  in 
severity  in  the  history  of  the  Union  up  to  that  time.  The 
effects  upon  Van  Buren 's  own  political  career  are  too  well 
known  to  require  more  than  a  passing  notice. 

In  the  combined  gifts  of  Van  Buren  papers,  from  Mrs. 
Smith  Thompson  Van  Buren  and  Dr.  Stuyvesant  Fish 
Morris,  the  Library  possesses  a  remarkably  complete  col- 
lection of  interesting  political  documents  bearing  upon  the 
middle  period  of  the  history  of  the  United  States.  A 


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mere  list  of  names  of  the  writers  would  convey  little  idea 
of  the  importance  of  the  letters,  for  a  good  portion  of 
the  writers  enjoyed  a  local  rather  than  a  national  repu- 
tation. The  rise  of  the  West  in  politics  and  the  change 
in  the  political  balance  of  power  are  described  in  these 
contemporary  records  of  the  men  who  bore  the  leading 
share  in  the  activities  of  party  management,  who  were 
prominent  in  shaping  the  polity  of  the  States,  and  through 
them  that  of  the  United  States.  Van  Buren,  as  the  cen- 
ter of  party  ambition  and  later  as  the  storm  center  of 
political  reverses,  enjoyed  unusually  wide  connections,  and 
his  special  aptitudes  led  him  to  be  in  touch  with  the 
opinions  of  his  rivals  as  well  as  followers  in  the  States 
whose  strength  in  the  electoral  college  gave  them  impor- 
tance. To  understand  the  quality  of  the  statesman  as 
well  as  of  the  political  manager  these  papers  are  essen- 
tial. I  can  only  repeat  that  "altogether,  for  the  period 
it  covers,  the  Van  Buren  collection  is  of  incalculable 
value  to  the  historian,  and  will  always  remain  a  monu- 
ment to  the  man  and  to  the  public  spirit  of  those  who 
have  so  freely  given  it  to  the  historical  archives  of  the 
nation. ' ' 

In  my  report  for  1903  (p.  23)  I  noted  the  acquisition  of 
certain  notes  of  debates  in  the  Convention  for  framing  a  Convention 
Constitution  for  the  United  States,  prepared  by  John  Pater- 
son.  These  notes  were  only  a  part  of  what  was  known  to 
be  in  existence,  but  the  opportunity  offered  to  secure  them 
was  not  one  to  be  neglected.  In  the  past  year  the  possessor 
of  what  was  not  then  obtained,  Miss  Emily  K.  Paterson,  of 
Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  presented  ,  to  the  Library,  thus  com- 
pleting the  record.  Few  and  disconnected  as  are  these 
notes  of  debates,  they  serve  to  explain,  and  to  enlarge  the 
Madison  "Notes."  The  entire  series  has  been  printed  in 
the  "American  Historical  Review,"  Volume  IX,  page  310, 
and  the  editor  wrote:  "It  must  be  said  that  many  of  these 


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notes  will  probably  prove  valuable  to  the  student  of  the 
Convention's  work.  They  help  to  bring  out  with  distinct- 
ness the  character  of  the  controversy  between  the  advocates 
of  the  Virginia  and  the  New  Jersey  plans,  and  they  cer- 
tainly throw  light  on  the  character  of  Paterson's  argu- 
ments. ' ' 

Kent  gift  From  Messrs.  William  and  Edwin  C.  Kent,  of  New 

York,  the  library  received  an  interesting  series  of  16  di- 
plomas, commissions,  etc.,  issued  to  Chancellor  William 
Kent,  1781-1823.  They  include  the  diplomas  of  Yale 
College  for  the  B.  A.  (1781)  and  M.  A.  (1784);  the  cer- 
tificate as  an  attorney  at  law  (1785);  a  commission  as 
paymaster  of  a  regiment  of  militia  (1786);  certificate  as 
counsellor  at  law  (1787);  certificates  of  election  to  the 
New  York  assembly  (1790  and  1792),  signed  by  the  super- 
visors of  the  county  of  Dutchess;  license  to  practice  before 
the  mayor's  court,  city  of  New  York  (1793),  and  before  the 
chancery  court,  New  York  State  (1794);  certificate  of  elec- 
tion to  the  assembly  from  the  city  of  New  York  (1796), 
signed  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen;  commission  as  master 
of  the  court  of  chancery  (1796),  and  recorder  of  New  York 
city  (1797);  commission  as  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of 
judicature,  New  York  (1798),  of  chief  justice  of  the  same 
court  (1804);  and  commission  as  chancellor  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  1814.  Also  the  resolution  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege, of  November  3,  1823,  calling  him  to  the  newly  estab- 
lished professorship  of  law.  So  full  a  series  illustrating  so 
honorable  a  career  fittingly  supplements  the  collection  of 
Chancellor  Kent  papers  received  from  Mr.  William  Kent 
in  1904.  These  diplomas,  etc.,  have  been  placed  on  exhi- 
bition with  letters  of  leading  jurists,  like  Marshall,  Bush- 
rod  Washington,  R.  B.  Taney,  William  Cranch,  William 
Wirt,  Henry  Wheaton,  Luther  Martin,  and  Horace  Binney. 

Scratchkygifl:      From  Mr.   H.   P.  Scratchley,  of  Bloomfield,   N.  J.,  the 

Rrown  paf»-i\ 

Library  received  as  a  gift  about  500  letters  and  documents ,N 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  23 

which  formed  a  part  of  the  papers  of  Senator  James  Brown, 
of  Louisiana.  These  papers,  extending  from  1777  to  1810, 
were  rescued  from  a  barrel  in  which  they  had  lain  undis- 
turbed for  many  years,  and  were  of  a  very  miscellaneous 
description.  The  larger  part  were  legal  documents  throw- 
ing some  light  upon  the  procedure  of  the  courts  in  the  early 
days  of  the  American  occupation,  and  more  light  upon  the 
social  condition  of  the  new  territory.  The  French  and 
Spanish  customs,  the  relation  of  master  to  slave,  and  the 
transfer  of  property  and  privileges  are  illustrated,  and  offer 
the  means  of  studying  certain  interesting  phases  of  Louisi- 
ana life  while  passing  from  a  foreign  dependency  to  a  State 
in  the  Union.  Senator  Brown's  high  judicial  position  gave 
him  a  large  and  varied  practice,  and  his  subsequent  services 
in  the  wider  field  of , national  employ,  as  Senator  and  as 
minister  to  France,  brought  him  into  close  connections  with 
the  leading  men  of  his  day.  Fragmentary  as  is  this  collec- 
tion it  will  serve  its  purposes  in  historical  investigation. 

Capt.   John  R.    M.  Taylor,  of  Washington,  D.   C.,  gave  MANUSCRIPTS: 

.  Miscellaneous 

1 8  letters  of  his  ancestor,  Zachary  Taylor,  written  to  Col.^b 
J.  P.  Taylor  during  his  service  in  the  war  with  Mexico. 
As  these  letters  are  often  eight  and  ten  pages  in  length  and 
were  written  in  full  family  confidence,  their  contents  are 
of  high  and  permanent  interest.  Captain  Taylor  also  gave 
other  letters  from  Winfield  Scott,  Thurlow  Weed,  Thos.  F. 
Meagher,  W.  S.  Rosecrans,  and  B.  F.  Butler. 

Mr.  Wendell  P.  Garrison,  of  New  York,  has  added  to  his 
gifts  of  authors'  letters.  Mrs.  A.  J.  Robertson  prepared 
and  presented  to  the  Library  an  illuminated  coat  of  arms  of 
the  Jones  family  of  North  Carolina,  from  whom  John  Paul 
Jones  took  his  name.  Mr.  Joseph  George  Rosengarten 
gave  a  ' '  Calendar  of  Papers  relating  to  the  German  Troops 
in  the  American  Revolution,"  interesting  in  itself  and  serv- 
ing to  complete  such  calendars  now  in  the  Library. 
UB  1906 3 


24  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

savannah  c  u  s  -      jn  j-]ie  papers  received  from  the  custom-house  at  Savannah, 

/  11  in  -  h  a  u  s  e 

records  Ga. ,   were  found    five  letter   books  containing  the  corre- 

spondence that  passed  between  the  collector  of  that  port 
and  the  treasury  of  the  Confederate  Statea  of  America, 
1861-1864.  As  the  collector  also  held  the  office  of  sub- 
treasurer  or  fiscal  agent,  and  was  situated  at  one  of  the  few 
large  seaports  of  the  Confederacy,  this  correspondence  is  of  a 
very  interesting  description,  dealing  with  the  sale  of  bonds, 
issue  of  notes,  and  purchase  of  foreign  exchange,  as  well  as 
with  the  collection  of  customs  duties,  and  such  commercial 
questions  as  the  shipment  of  cotton  and  the  state  of  the 
blockade.  The  collection  numbers  about  500  pieces,  but 
the  size  is  not  so  important  as  the  subject-matter  of  which 
it  treats.  It  is  doubtful  if  any  similar  records  of  the  admin- 
istration of  the  financial  features  of  the  Confederacy  exist, 
for  the  treasury  papers  were  destroyed. 
MANUSCRIPTS:  ^Q  iat-pre  purchase  of  manuscripts  was  made  in  the  last 

Purchases 

twelve  months,  but  some  collections  of  value  were  acquired 
and  the  following  notes  apply  to  them: 

jn  the  papers  of  the  Galloway  family,  numbering  some 
3,000  pieces,  was  found  a  continuous  series  extending 
over  four  generations.  For  the  colonial  and  revolution- 
ary periods  the  papers  were  of  an  economic  character,  the 
correspondence  of  a  planter,  an  exporter  of  tobacco  and 
importer  of  merchandise,  serving  as  a  distributing  agent 
for  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Maryland.  The  letter,  ledgers, 
and  account  books  begin  with  1718,  and  the  correspond- 
ence with  the  English  merchants — and  notably  with  the 
well  known  Sylvanus  Grove — is  voluminous  and  interest- 
ing. The  letters  from  the  leading  families  of  Maryland 
are  of  genealogical  value,  including  many  from  the  Ring- 
golds,  Tilghmans,  Dulanys,  and  Galloway  connections. 
In  the  third  generation  are  included  the  papers  of  Virgil 
Maxcy,  once  American  charge  d'affaires  in  Belgium,  and 


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one  of  those  killed  on  the  Princeton  by  the  explosion  of 
a  gun  during  a  visit  made  to  the  vessel  by  President 
Tyler.  It  contains  letters  from  a  large  number  of  public 
men  of  his  day,  and  is  particularly  noteworthy  by  reason 
of  a  series  of  letters  of  John  C.  Calhoun,  80  in  number, 
written  in  terms  of  full  intimacy  and  political  confidence. 
Maxcy  prepared  a  biography  of  Calhoun,  for  which  Cal- 
houn furnished  the  material.  These  letters  alone  consti- 
tute an  important  acquisition.  In  the  fourth  generation 
are  the  papers  of  Francis  Markoe,  who  was  connected  with 
the  Columbian  Institute  and  served  as  chief  clerk  of  the 
Department  of  State  at  a  time  when  that  officer  was  in 
reality  an  Assistant  Secretary  of  State. 

The  papers  of  Senator  Lyman  Trumbull,  of  Illinois,  were  £?mbul1  pa~ 
obtained  from  his  widow.  They  number  about  3, 700  papers, 
comprising  his  private  correspondence  from  1856  to  1872. 
The  more  important  portions  relate  to  his  service  in  the 
United  States  Senate,  and  to  his  active  interest  and  partici- 
pation in  the  political  campaign  of  1872.  The  letters  give 
an  interesting  light  on  the  Lincoln  campaign  of  1860,  the 
civil  war,  and  the  subsequent  legislation  for  the  Southern 
states.  Some  of  the  writers  represented  by  this  series  of 
letters  are:  Charles  Sumner,  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  William 
Herndon,  John  G.  Nicolay,  S.  P.  Chase,  Lydia  M.  Child, 
Zachariah  Chandler,  Preston  King,  Simon  Cameron,  Joseph 
Medill,  J.  W.  Grimes,  Horace  Greeley,  John  M.  Palmer,  and 
John  Pope. 

The  appearance  in  the  market  of  one  of  the  interleaved    Washington 

di civics 

and  annotated  almanacs  of  George  Washington  gave  an 
opportunity  to  the  Library  to  make  an  addition  to  the  long 
series  of  such  almanacs  obtained  by  the  purchase  of  the 
Washington  collection  in  1849.  The  unique  interest  of  the 
diary  or  manuscript  notes  would  alone  warrant  its  purchase, 
while  the  fact  that  it  was  one  of  two  of  the  almanacs  of 


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the  early  series  not  in  the  Library  gave  it  a  special  value 
to  its  collections.  The  entire  series  of  these  records  now 
contains  interleaved  almanacs  or  note  books  for  the  years 
1760  to  1775,  with  the  single  exception  of  that  for  1762, 
which,  so  far  as  appears,  is  not  known  to  exist. 
corre-  jjy  purchase  were  obtained  1 2  volumes  of  the  correspond- 

spondence 

ence  of  Thomas  Corwin  when  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
1850-1853.  The  letters  number  about  3,000  and  consist 
entirely  of  his  private  correspondence.  They  do  not  in 
any  way  duplicate  official  letters  which  are  on  file  in  the 
Treasury  Department,  and  as  political  history  are  of  a  very 
good  description.  Fiscal  and  commercial  policy,  the  con- 
dition of  party  politics  in  different  States,  and  appointments 
to  office  are  the  leading  subjects  of  these  letters,  and  the 
writers  were  prominent  in  many  lines  in  their  time.  Some 
of  the  names  are  Henry  C.  Carey,  James  Hamilton,  of 
South  Carolina,  Francis  Granger,  S.  Draper,  Washington 
Hunt,  Moses  H.  Grinnell,  and  many  others. 
MSS.  trans-  Qn  May  23,  1906,  the  following  Executive  Order  was 

ferred  from   the 

Department    o/issued  providing  for  further  transfers  of  historical  material 
from  the  Department  of  State  to  the  Library  of  Congress: 
"The  following  Historical  Archives  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  State: 

1.  Spanish  manuscripts  of    1631,  supposed  to  have 
been  captured  in  the  City  of  Mexico. 

2.  The  Orderly  Books  of  Capt.  Robert  Walker  and 
Sergeant  Dolson,  together  with  the  Diary  of  Ebenezer 
Fitch  and  Paul  Blancher. 

3.  The  Forton  Prisoners  manuscripts,  1777-1779. 

4.  A  Journal  of  the  Travels  of  Alexander  Church, 
Richard  Ramsey,  and  Zephaniah  Halsey. 

5.  The  printed  Books  which  are  annotated  by  Sir 
Henry  Clinton. 

6.  Journal  of  the  ship  Hope,  1790-1792.     4  vols. 

7.  The  Whisky  Insurrection  in  Pennsylvania,  1792- 
1796. 


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8.  House  Tax  Insurrection,  1799. 

9.  Correspondence  of  Albert  Gallatin  as  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury. 

10.  Papers  relating  to  the  Burr  Conspiracy. 

11.  Log  Book  of  the  ship  Lexington,  1807. 

12.  The  John  Henry  Papers. 

13.  Jefferson  Davis  Papers, 

Are,  by  authority  provided  by  the  Act  of  Congress 
entitled  "An  Act  Making  appropriations  for  the  legis- 
lative, executive,  and  judicial  expenses  of  the  Govern- 
ment for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen 
hundred  and  four,  ^and  for  other  purposes, ' '  approved 
February  25,  1903,  hereby  ordered  to  be  transferred 
from  the  Department  of  State  to  the  possession  and 
custody  of  the  Library  of  Congress,  to  be  there  pre- 
served and  rendered  accessible  for  historical  and  other 
legitimate  uses  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may 
from  time  to  time  be  prescribed  by  the  Librarian  of 
Congress. 

The  transfer  here  directed  shall  be  made  as  promptly 
as  shall  be  found  conveniently  practicable  to  the  De- 
partment of  State  and  the  Library  of  Congress." 

' '  THEODORE  ROOSEVELT  ' ' 

' '  THE  WHITE  HOUSE  ' ' 
May  23,  1906 

The  transfer  has  been  made. 

The  Library  has  obtained  the  Benjamin  Franklin  Stevens  ALOGUE  INDEX 
Catalogue  Index  of  Manuscripts  in  the  Archives  of  Eng-01 
land,  France,  Holland,  and  Spain  relating  to  America, 
1763-1783.  This  great  work,  in  180  volumes,  was  practi- 
cally the  life  work  of  the  compiler.  For  many  years  Mr. 
Stevens  gave  ready  assistance  to  American  students  of 
foreign  archives,  and  by  means  of  this  Catalogue  Index 
opened  to  them  the  rich  stores  in  public  and  private  collec- 
tions. His  intimate  knowledge  of  these  archives  and  his 
close  relations  with  the  custodians  gave  him  unusual  oppor- 
tunities for  compiling  such  a  list  and  of  putting  it  in  the 


28  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

STEVENS  CAT-  form  best  suited  to  the  needs  of  scholars  and  investigators. 

ALOGUE  INDEX 

OF  MSS.  Compiled  with  a  thoroughness  that  leaves  little  to  be  desired 

and  with  a  full  conception  of  the  importance  and  relations 
of  the  documents  included,  the  work  stands  as  complete  as 
possible,  and  never  to  be  again  undertaken  in  the  same  or 
in  a  modified  form.  For  more  than  twenty  years  the  value 
of  the  Index  has  been  tested,  and  no  doubt  has  arisen  as  to 
its  public  utility  or  the  expediency  of  transferring  it  to  the 
United  States,  where  it  could  be  accessible  to  those  who 
would  know  what  the  leading  archives  in  Europe  can  supply 
on  American  history  for  the  period  covered. 

No  similar  index  of  this  material  exists  in  any  shape  or 
form,  and  Mr.  Stevens  was  entirely  within  truth  when  he 
described  it  as  "  the  sole  key  to  the  American  revolution- 
ary documents  in  European  archives. ' '  The  utility  of  the 
compilation  is  increased  by  the  manner  of  its  manufacture; 
and  the  list  is  as  available  for  consultation  by  the  person 
wishing  to  know  of  a  certain  subject  or  period  as  by  one 
wishing  to  know  of  a  certain  person  or  his  connection  with 
the  public  men  of  his  day. 

In  an  address  before  the  American  Historical  Association 
at  Chicago,  111.,  December,  1904,  Prof.  Charles  M.  Andrews, 
of  Bryn  Mawr  College,  describing  the  material  in  British 
collections  of  interest  to  the  student  of  American  history, 
concluded  with  the  following  reference  to  the  Stevens  Index 
and  Transcripts : 

"In  conclusion,  I  should  like  to  say  a  word  about  a 
work  essentially  unlike  that  which  I  have  been  discuss- 
ing in  this  paper — a  work  begun  more  than  twenty 
years  ago  but  only  completed  in  1903.  I  refer  to  the 
Index  of  Manuscripts  in  the  Archives  of  England, 
France,  Holland,  and  Spain  Relating  to  America, 
compiled  by  the  late  Benjamin  Franklin  Stevens.  I 
am  glad  to  describe  this  great  undertaking,  not  only 
because  I  wish  to  show  that  the  historical  bureau  of 


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the  Carnegie  Institution  in  its  series  of  guides  is  in  no 
way  duplicating  work  already  done,  but  also  because 
the  Index  is  little  known  in  this  country  and  its  great 
merits  are  little  appreciated.  It  is  a  monument  of 
industry  and  accuracy  and  a  source  of  information  indis- 
pensable to  the  student  of  the  later  period  of  colonial 
history. 

' '  The  Index  is  in  180  manuscript  volumes  and  contains 
the  titles  of  161,000  documents.  Each  title  is  entered 
three  times:  Once  in  the  '  Catalogue,'  which  covers  50 
volumes  bound  in  full  blue  crushed  L/evant  morocco  and 
contains  the  titles  in  the  order  of  their  arrangement  in 
the  original  archives;  a  second  time  in  the  '  Chronological 
Index '  of  loo  volumes  bound  in  full  red  crushed  L,evant 
morocco,  which  contains  the  titles  rearranged  in  chro- 
nological order  with  a  brief  abstract  of  the  content  of 
each  document;  and  a  third  time  in  the  'Alphabetical 
Index'  of  30  volumes  bound  in  full  brown  crushed 
L,evant  morocco,  in  which  the  titles  are  entered  alpha- 
betically according  to  the  names  of  writers  and  receiv- 
ers, or  according  to  the  subject-matter  if  no  writer  or 
receiver  is  named  in  the  document.  The  volumes  are 
bound  in  full  morocco;  each  volume  is  prefaced  by  a 
lithographed  title-page  and  a  lithographed  list  of  the 
archives  and  volumes,  the  documents  of  which  are  cat- 
alogued, and  the  main  part  of  the  work  is  beautifully 
written  on  hand  laid  paper  specially  made  for  the  pur- 
pose. Externally  the  Index  is  a  superb  example  of  the 
skill  of  the  copyist  and  the  art  of  the  binder. 

' '  The  work  is  an  index  or  list.  In  the  '  Catalogue ' 
each  document  is  entered  by  a  short  title  with  date, 
place  of  address,  name  of  writer  and  addressee  or  other 
brief  heading,  description  of  document,  whether  an 
original  or  a  copy,  approximate  length,  and  the  ref- 
erence to  its  location  by  number  of  volume  and  folio. 
In  the  '  Chronological  Index '  each  title  is  followed  by 
a  precis  of  its  contents,  together  with  the  indorsements 
and  a  list  of  all  inclosures  or  covering  letters.  Here 
also  are  noted  the  various  duplicates,  copies,  or  extracts 
of  the  same  letter  or  paper,  and  to  a  limited  extent, 


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STEVENS  CAT-          with  plenty  of  blank  space  for  an  indefinite  expansion 

OF°MSS  ni  this  direction,  references  to  printed  works  where  the 

document  may  be  found,  or  to  the  Stevens's  Facsimiles 

in  case  the  document  has  been  there  reproduced.     The 

'  Alphabetical  Index  '  repeats  in  alphabetical  order  the 

information  contained  in  the  Catalogue. ' ' 

Professor  Andrews  then  points  out  the  respects  in  which 

the  Guide  to  Material  in  British  Collections,  compiled  by 

him  and  about  to  be  issued  by  the  Carnegie  Institution,  will 

in   no   sense  duplicate   the  information    furnished    by  the 

Index,  but  will  render  a  service  of  a  very  different  nature, 

covering  also  material  untouched  by  the  Catalogue  Index, 

or  Transcripts  mentioned  below.     He  proceeds: 

« *  #  *  the  in(^ex  covers  but  twenty  years  of 
time,  1 763  to  1783,  and  while  it  includes  a  number  of 
important  private  collections  in  England,  as  well  as  the 
archives  of  Spain,  France,  and  Holland,  it  has  omitted 
a  large  number  of  collections  that  are  important  for  our 
purpose.  It  has  not  listed  the  documents  in  the  Bod- 
leian library,  scarcely  any  of  which  fall  within  its 
period,  nor  all  the  documents  in  the  British  Museum; 
it  lists  none  of  the  documents  in  the  Privy  Council 
Office,  none  of  the  Treasury  papers,  the  Papers  of  the 
High  Court  of  Admiralty,  the  Board  of  Trade,  Com- 
mercial, Declared  Accounts,  or  other  departmental  col- 
lections. While  these  limitations  both  in  time  and 
extent  are  much  to  be  regretted,  nevertheless  it  must 
be  remembered  that  to  list  all  the  documents  in  the 
British  archives  that  relate  to  American  history  is  a  task 
beyond  the  powers  of  any  one  man  within  a  lifetime, 
aided  though  he  may  be  by  an  efficient  corps  of  search- 
ers and  copyists.  In  Mr.  Stevens's  case  the  difficulty 
was  increased  by  the  care  and  thoroughness  with  which 
he  performed  his  work.  The  finished  form  of  the  Index 
and  the  detailed  account  of  each  document  must  have 
consumed  a  great  deal  of  time  and  energy. 

"All  things  considered  the  Stevens's  Index  is  the 
most  valuable  work  of  reference  to  the  documents  of 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  31 

the  period — 1763  to  1783 — that  has  ever  been  compiled. 
Its  accuracy,  at  least  so  far  as  the  British  archives  are 
concerned,  I  believe  to  be  unimpeachable.  Every  effort 
has  been  made  to  render  it  reliable;  titles  and  refer- 
ences were  verified  and  reverified,  until,  as  was  confi- 
dently hoped,  every  error  had  been  eliminated.  Such 
a  work  ought  not  to  remain  on  the  other  side  of  the 
water.  Its  place  is  here,  preferably  in  the  Library  of 
Congress;  and  though  the  price  asked  by  the  Stevens' s 
estate  is  a  large  one,  it  is  not  as  much  by  many  thou- 
sands of  dollars  as  Mr.  Stevens  expended  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  self-imposed  task.  The  more  familiar 
one  becomes  with  the  materials  in  the  British  archives 
the  more  one  appreciates  the  great  service  which  Mr. 
Stevens  has  rendered  to  American  history.  Until  the 
Index  is  purchased  and  safely  installed  in  some  central 
depository  in  the  United  States  where  it  can  be  seen, 
admired,  and  used,  and  until  the  Peace  Transcripts, 
which  Mr.  Stevens  made  twenty  years  ago  and  which 
nave  lain  unused  during  all  this  period  in  the  archives 
of  the  State  Department,  have  also  been  acquired,  the 
United  States  Government  and  the  American  people 
can  justly  be  charged  with  neglect  of  two  efficient  aids 
to  the  proper  rendering  of  a  period  of  our  history  which 
is  second  to  none  in  importance  or  dramatic  interest." 

With  this  Catalogue  Index  was  also  obtained  the  Trans-  STEVBNS  TRAN- 
scnpts  made  from  English  and  French  archives  of  the 
papers  relating  to  the  peace  of  1783  between  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain.  The  first  idea  of  such  a  compila- 
tion came  with  the  centennial  year  of  that  event.  The 
then  Secretary  of  State,  William  M.  Evarts,  wrote  to  the 
American  minister  in  London,  Mr.  James  Russell  Lowell: 

"I  have,  therefore,  to  request  you  to  bring  the  sub- 
ject to  the  attention  of  Her  Majesty's  Government,  and 
to  ask  for  permission  to  cause  copies  to  be  made  of  such 
unpublished  papers  and  documents  as  may  exist  in  the 
British  archives  relating  to  the  peace  negotiations  in 
question  as  Her  Majesty's  Government  may  deem  it 


32  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

proper  to  submit  to  the  inspection  of  your  legation  for 
that  purpose. ' ' 

Mr.  Lowell  addressed  a  note  to  Earl  Granville,  the  Secre- 
tary of  state  for  foreign  affairs,  and  learned  that  every 
facility  would  be  afforded  to  any  person  deputed  by  the 
Government  of  the  United  States  ' '  for  the  purpose  of  ex- 
amining and  making  copies  of  any  papers  he  may  select 
from  the  foreign  correspondence  of  that  period,  subject  to 
the  usual  restrictions."  The  task  of  selecting  the  docu- 
ments to  be  copied  proved  to  be  so  great  that  the  agent 
selected,  Mr.  Theodore  F.  D wight,  abandoned  it,  and  it 
was  then  that  Mr.  Stevens  took  up  the  matter  and  carried 
it  to  completion.  Public  and  private  collections  were 
drawn  upon,  and  these  37  volumes  of  transcripts  containing 
over  10,000  pieces  were  the  result.  Not  a  phase  of  the 
important  negotiations  has  been  overlooked,  and  great  as 
has  been  the  study  expended  on  this  single  event  of  Ameri- 
can history,  the  unpublished  material  now  obtained  is  ex- 
tensive and  important. 
Transcripts  of  The  transcription  of  English  records,  described  in  my 

English  records 

report  for   1905   (pp.   56-58),  is  progressing  as  rapidly  as 
circumstances  will  admit.     A  list  of  the  volumes  transcribed 
is  given  in  Appendix  IV,  pages  137-139. 
Spanish  Ar-      jn  my  report  for  1903  (p.  27)  I  wrote: 

chives  of  Cali- 
fornia <  <  A  proposal  to  bring  to  Washington  for  a  like  purpose 
[safety]  the  archives  at  San  Francisco  met  with  a  pro- 
test from  resident  societies  and  individuals  in  California, 
who,  conceding  the  title  to  the  documents  and  the 
authority  over  them  to  rest  with  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment, regard  their  present  location  as  sufficiently  safe 
and  their  utility  to  investigators  on  the  Pacific  slope  of 
greater  concern  than  their  possible  utility  to  investi- 
gators at  large." 

This  proposal  was  based  upon  the  report  of  an  agent  of 
this  Library  who  saw  the  archives  in  San  Francisco,  and 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  33 

who  pointed  out  that  they  were  not  in  a  fireproof  building, 
were  not  surrounded  by  the  safeguards  which  the  value  of 
the  papers  demanded,  and  were  not  being  indexed  or  cal- 
endared in  a  manner  which  would  make  them  available  for 
use  by  investigators.  Even  if  temporarily  transferred  to 
the  Library  of  Congress,  to  be  held  in  trust  until  a  safe 
depository  in  California  could  be  built  for  them,  the  risk  of 
loss  would  be  lessened,  and  the  papers  would  receive  that 
attention  which  their  importance  demanded,  and  which 
could  not  be  given  to  them  in  their  place  of  deposit.  These 
archives  were  contained  in  302  volumes,  constituting  the 
largest  collection  of  Spanish  decrees,  memorials,  orders,  and 
proceedings  extant  in  the  United  States,  and  invaluable  for 
illustrating  the  history  and  methods  of  Spanish  rule  in  their 
Colonial  dependencies.  Of  this  entire  collection  not  a  sin- 
gle volume  escaped  destruction  in  the  earthquake  and  sub- 
sequent fire.  The  loss  is  irreparable. 

The  chief  duties  of  this  division  are  to  receive  material    Work  °f Divi- 

sion  ofMSS. 

and  make  it  available  for  students  and  inquirers.  This 
involves  arrangement  and  listing,  both  of  which  demand 
time  and  a  certain  study  of  the  papers  themselves.  The 
time  between  the  receipt  of  the  manuscripts  and  their  being 
thrown  open  to  the  public  may  thus  vary  widely  according 
to  the  nature  of  the  collection.  In  the  last  year  the  Van 
Buren,  Crittenden,  Galloway,  Me  Arthur,  and  Allen  collec- 
tions have  been  arranged,  and  calendars  of  the  Van  Buren 
and  Crittenden  papers  are  well  advanced.  The  listing  of 
the  Andrew  Jackson  papers  has  been  completed,  and  the 
calendaring  has  reached  1815,  thus  covering  about  two- 
fifths  of  the  collection.  The  cards,  prepared  by  Mr.  Mont- 
gomery Blair,  will  form  a  convenient  key  to  the  collection, 
and  the  calendaring  will  be  continued  at  a  more  rapid  rate 
than  in  the  past.  It  may  be  stated  that  there  is  no  large 
collection  of  manuscripts  in  the  Library  (except  the  Breck- 


34  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

inridge  collection)  which  has  not  been  arranged  in  such 
form  that  the  student  ma)-  use  them.  There  are  no  indi- 
vidual papers  (outside  of  collections)  that  have  not  their 
corresponding  cards  in  the  main  card  catalogue  of  this 
Division.  The  Breckinridge  papers  will  be  arranged  in  the 
coming  year. 

Repair  of  MSS.  ^he  number  of  manuscripts  treated  by  the  repairers  in 
the  last  fiscal  year  was  8,830.  Many  of  them  required  great 
attention  to  save  wrhat  remained  from  the  destructive  use  or 
neglect  shown  in  the  past.  The  Papers  of  the  Continental 
Congress  have  all  been  repaired  and  mounted,  and  only  two 
or  three  volumes  remain  to  be  bound.  The  completion  of  this 
great  work,  placing  those  priceless  historical  papers  beyond 
the  reach  of  injury,  is  a  cause  for  congratulation.  In  their 
present  shape  they  are  practically  good  for  all  time.  As 
the  Washington  papers  have  suffered  much  from  the  man- 
ner in  which  they  were  bound  by  Mr.  Sparks,  and  from  the 
frequent  handling  they  have  had  since,  I  have  decided  to 
place  them  in  the  same  condition  as  the  Continental  Con- 
gress papers.  No  labor  or  expense  would  be  too  great  to 
assure  the  permanent  preservation  of  what  must  always 
be  the  great  feature  in  the  manuscript  collections  of  the 
Library  of  Congress.  Already  six  volumes  have  been 
repaired,  and  the  -work  will  be  pushed  as  rapidly  as  cir- 
cumstances will  allow.  The  Jackson  papers  have  been 
mounted  up  to  the  end  of  1814,  and  some  work  has  been 
done  for  other  divisions  of  the  Library,  work  requiring  a 
greater  skill  and  delicacy  than  could  be  had  of  their  own 
assistants. 


DIVISION  OF      The    publications  prepared    in    the  Division   during  the 

MSS.:  Publica- 

tions year  were:  The  Journals  of  the  Continental  Congress,  vol- 

umes 4-6,  a  Calendar  of  the  Correspondence  of  George 
Washington  and  the  Continental  Congress,  and  a  L,ist  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  Papers. 


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The  issue  of  the  Journals  has  reached  the  end  of  1776,    Journals  of 

Continental  Con- 

and  comprises  thus  far  six  volumes.  For  the  first  time*«« 
this  skeleton  of  legislative  action  is  printed  in  its  entirety, 
with  such  reports  as  were  laid  before  that  body  by  its  own 
committees.  It  is  now  possible  for  the  historian  better  to 
understand  what  was  proposed  and  what  was  done,  in  im- 
mediate connection  with  the  documents  that  expressed  the 
united  wisdom  of  the  committees  by  whom  they  were  pre- 
pared. That  the  reports  were  often  not  accepted  by  the 
Congress  makes  them  all  the  more  important  as  historical 
papers.  They  embodied  policies  and  suggestions,  proposed 
orders  and  intended  punishments.  They  were  set  aside 
and  another  course  taken,  frequently  a  compromise,  a  half 
measure,  which  temporized  with  the  difficulty  to  be  met. 
Prepared  by  the  leading  member  of  the  committee,  they  are 
essential  to  a  proper  comprehension  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  Congress,  and  their  publication  even  at  this  late  day 
opens  to  the  student  a  field  for  research  which  will  be  very 
profitable.  The  volumes  covering  the  session  of  1777  are 
now  in  the  hands  of  the  printer,  and  the  "copy"  for  1778 
is  being  prepared. 

The  Calendar  of  the  Correspondence  of  George  Washing-    Calendar  of 

Washington 

ton  and  the  Continental  Congress,  1775-1783,  fittingly  begins  correspondence 
the  calendaring  of  the  Washington  Papers.  The  earlier 
letters  and  papers,  covering  the  colonial  period,  are  not  of 
so  great  importance  historically,  however  valuable  as  ex- 
plaining the  personal  life  and  character  of  the  man.  Fur- 
ther, they  were  not  in  such  form  as  readily  to  lend  them- 
selves to  listing  and  description.  The  correspondence  of 
the  General  with  the  Congress  is  complete  in  itself,  and 
possesses  the  double  advantage  of  having  the  original  drafts 
of  his  letters,  which  served  to  check  and  complete  the  let- 
ters themselves  in  the  Papers  of  the  Continental  Congress. 
The  extent  of  the  correspondence  and  the  large  number  of 


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iuclosures  it  contained  make  this  a  most  notable  series  and 
an  unrivaled  source  of  the  history  of  the  time.  This  Cal- 
endar, comprising  nearly  700  pages,  is  in  type,  and  the  index 
is  now  being  prepared,  both  being  the  work  of  Mr.  John  C. 
Fitzpatrick,  of  this  Division.  The  papers  were  acquired  in 
1849,  and  this  Calendar  is  the  first  published  listed  cata- 
logue or  attempted  list  of  even  a  part  of  the  acquisition. 
The  second  part  of  the  Calendar  is  well  advanced  and  will 
include  the  correspondence  of  General  Washington  with 
his  associates  in  the  Army.  The  two  calendars  will  thus 
cover  the  Revolution  so  far  as  it  is  covered  in  the  Washing- 
ton papers  and  will  make  known  and  available  the  one 
great  source  of  its  military  history. 
List  of  Frank-  The  L,ist  of  the  Beniamin  Franklin  papers,  prepared  by 

lin  papers 

Mr.  John  C.  Fitzpatrick,  was  also  published  in  the  past 
year.  The  Henry  Stevens  Collection  of  Franklin  papers, 
obtained  in  1882,  was  the  basis  of  this  list,  to  which  was 
added  such  other  Franklin  manuscript  material  as  was  in 
the  Library  of  Congress.  At  the  time  of  purchase  a  mere 
list  of  the  papers  was  printed  as  a  Congressional  document, 
without  any  attempt  to  note  the  contents  of  the  papers. 
This  list,  faulty  in  many  particulars,  could  be  of  no  service 
to  anyone  wishing  to  consult  the  papers.  The  manuscripts 
are  now  available,  and  in  every  leading  library  of  the  United 
States  this  new  List  can  be  found  and  the  utility  of  the  col- 
lection to  special  students  tested.  It  will  not  be  without 
interest  to  note  that  the  American  Philosophical  Society  of 
Philadelphia,  which  holds  the  main  part  of  the  Papers  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  is  preparing  a  calendar  of  that  collec- 
tion. The  two  lists  will  go  far  to  reduce  the  regret  that 
the  two  collections  could  not  again  be  united  under  one 
roof,  after  more  than  a  century  of  separation. 

Naval  records       >phe  Division  has  prepared  a  list  or  calendar  of  such  naval 
records  of  the  Revolution  as  are  to  be  found  in  its  various 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  37 

collections.  There  appears  to  be  a  widespread  misconcep- 
tion as  to  the  extent  of  these  records.  The  great  origin 
should  be  the  Papers  of  the  Continental  Congress,  whose 
various  committees  were  in  charge  of  the  Continental  Navy. 
But  after  the  first  two  years  the  ships  of  the  Navy  were 
equipped  rather  to  transrJbrt  military  stores  from  Europe 
than  to  contend  with  the  vastly  larger  naval  force  of  Great 
Britain.  Depredations  on  the  enemy's  commerce  was  left 
to  privateers,  sailing  under  Continental  license,  and  the  de- 
fense of  seaports  fell  to  the  respective  States.  A  letter 
book  of  the  Marine  Committee  and  its  successors,  1776- 
1780,  a  few  reports  on  naval  matters  laid  before  Congress, 
and  a  small  number  of  petitions  and  memorials  from  those 
who  served  in  the  Navy  constitute  a  meager  record.  Much 
better  are  the  1,700  or  more  bonds  issued  to  letters  of 
marque,  giving  the  names  of  the  commander  (and  some- 
times of  the  other  officers),  of  the  bonders,  and  of  the  own- 
ers. These  have  been  listed,  and  the  miscellaneous  naval 
papers  have  been  calendared  by  Mr.  Charles  Henry  Lincoln, 
of  this  Division,  and  the  Calendar  is  now  in  type  and  will  be 
published  in  the  coming  winter. 

I    described    in    my   last    report    (p.    55)    the   intended    Records  of  the 

Virginia     Com- 

publication  of  the  Records  of  the  Virginia  Company 
London.  The  task  of  the  editor,  Miss  Kingsbury,  was 
finished  and  the  manuscript  transcript  turned  over  to  the 
printer.  A  number  of  new  characters  were  obtained  that 
the  printing "  might  conform  to  what  the  highest  and 
most  experienced  skill  demanded,  and  the  proof  as  it 
passed  through  the  press  was  read  in  the  Division  with 
the  original,  line  by  line,  to  assure  accuracy  of  text.  The 
volumes  have  now  been  printed  and  are  nearly  ready  for 
distribution.  As  an  historical  record  the  work  is  of  the 
highest  importance,  and,  like  so  many  of  its  kind,  now 
appears  for  the  first  time  in  its  entirety  and  under  com- 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 


DOCUMENTS: 
A  ccessions 


petent  editing.  As  an  example  of  bookmaking  it  is 
quite  as  notable,  and  emphasizes  the  possibilities  in  this 
direction.  The  ready  acceptance  of  suggestion  by  the 
Public  Printer  and  the  manner  he  has  met  the  difficulties 
of  type  encountered  deserve  warm  acknowledgment. 
The  antique  text  was  deciphered  by  the  editor,  Miss 
Kingsbury,  and  independently  by  Miss  M.  V.  Stinson,  the 
double  reading  serving  as  a  necessary  precaution  against 
error.  As  to  the  timeliness  of  this  issue  I  say  nothing. 
It  \vill  always  stand  as  one  of  the  earliest  records  of 
Colonial  affairs  in  English  America,  and  a  fragment  as  it 
is,  becomes  thereby  all  the  more  valuable  to  historians  of 
colonial  settlement  under  a  trading  company. 

DIVISION    OF    DOCUMENTS 

During  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1906,  the  acces- 
sions to  the  Library  through  the  Division  of  Documents 
were  as  follows: 


How  acquired 

Volumes 

Pamphlets 

Total 

Received  by  virtue  of  law  
Gifts  of  Government  of  the  United  States  in  all 
its  branches  

456 

3i  737 

90 

2,  Oig 

546 
5,756 

2   648 

I    236 

3  884 

Gifts  of  local  governments 

987 

333 

i,  320 

Gifts  of  foreign  governments  (International  Ex- 

2   614 

908 

221 

159 

380 

252 

165 

417 

Total  to  be  recorded 

10  915 

4,910 

15  825 

By    purchase,    exchange,    deposit,    and    transfer 
(counted  in  Order  Division  )  

•3,  339 

1,973 

5,312 

By  binding  periodicals  

1,212 

1,212 

Total  handled 

15  466 

6  883 

22,  349 

During  the  past  year  the  transfers  of  miscellaneous 
duplicates  from  the  Department  libraries  have,  with  few 
exceptions,  been  received  and  counted  in  the  Order  Divi- 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  39 

sion.  They  were  formerly  included  in  the  statistics  of  the 
Division  of  Documents  under  the  heading  ' '  Gifts  of  the 
Government  of  the  United  States,"  and  constituted  by  far 
the  greater  part  of  this  item.  Making  allowance,  there- 
fore, for  the  fact  that  the  above  figures  practically  repre- 
sent official  publications  only,  they  indicate  that  a  greater 
number  of  documents  has  been  added  to  the  collection 
during  the  twelve  months  just  ended  than  in  any  previ- 
ous year  since  the  organization  of  the  division. 

Among  the  transfers  above  noted  the  collections  of  the    Firsi  f°urteen 

Congresses 

documents  of  the  first  fourteen  Congresses  from  the  De- 
partment of  State  and  the  Post-Office  Department  are  of 
special  interest.  These  have  added  a  considerable  number 
of  publications  not  heretofore  contained  in  the  Library  of 
Congress  set,  which  is  now  probably  as  nearly  complete 
as  it  can  be  made. 

The  officials   of   the  Government    Printing  Office  have   Current  united 

States  documents 

courteously  responded  to  our  request  for  a  more  compre- 
hensive interpretation  of  the  law  providing  United  States 
documents  for  the  use  of  the  Library,  and  for  greater 
promptness  in  their  delivery,  and  this  has  made  it  possible 
to  take  up  the  printing  of  catalogue  cards  for  important 
documents  and  to  supply  the  serial  numbers  of  the  cards 
for  insertion  in  the  monthly  catalogue  issued  by  the  Super- 
intendent of  Documents. 

By  a  ruling  of  the  Joint  Committee  on  Printing  we  are    Committee 
now  receiving  copies  of  committee  hearings  direct  from  the 
Government  Printing  Office,  thus  getting  rid  of  the  difficulty 
experienced  in  previous  years  with  regard  to  this  class  of 
Congressional  publications. 

Special  attention  has  been  given  to  the  completion  of  the    state  docu- 
sets  of  legislative  journals,  collected  documents,  and  sepa- 
rate reports  of   the  more   important   departments   of   the 
various  State  governments.     The  library  has  now  received 
UB  1906 4 


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all  back  volumes  that  are  available  for  distribution  by  the 
issuing  authorities,  and  any  still  wanting  must  be  obtained 
and  are  being  sought  by  exchange  of  duplicates  with  other 
libraries  or  from  second-hand  dealers. 
nctpaidoc-  acquisitioii  of  American  municipal  documents  and 


uments 


ordinances  has  been  limited  to  publications  of  the  larger 
cities  and  of  typical  smaller  cities  only.  The  separate 
reports  of  city  officers  have  been  solicited  wherever  collected 
documents  are  not  issued,  and  also  in  special  cases  where  it 
has  appeared  desirable  to  provide  sets  for  classification  by 
subject,  e.  g. ,  parks,  public  health,  schools,  water-supply, 
and  other  public  works. 
international  The  province  of  Alberta,  recently  organized  as  a  separate 

e.v  change 

government  from  the  Northwest  Territory,  Canada,  and 
Ecuador  have  been  added  to  the  list  of  countries  receiving 
partial  sets  of  United  States  documents  in  exchange  for 
similar  material. 

Through  the  cooperation  of  the  Director  of  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey  sets  of  the  maps  issued  by  the 
Survey  are  now  at  the  disposal  of  the  Library  for  use  in 
exchange  with  foreign  governments  and  will  doubtless 
aid  materially  in  procuring  needed  additions  to  our  map 
collection. 

Foreign  laws  Among  the  notable  accessions  received  in  the  Division  of 
Documents  during  the  past  year  from  foreign  governments 
are  two  important  collections  of  laws  and  decrees,  from  Italy 
198  volumes,  and  from  Brazil  135  volumes,  which  were  ob- 
tained as  official  donations  through  the  intervention  of  the 
diplomatic  representatives  of  the  United  States  in  these 
countries. 

French  archives  Efforts  are  being  made  to  collect  a  complete  set  of  the 
"Inventaire  sommaire  des  archives  "  published  by  the  va- 
rious Departments  of  France,  and  letters  recently  addressed 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  41 

to  the  authorities  have  already  brought  favorable  replies 
from  thirty-one  Departments. 

The  arrears  of  uncatalogued  foreign  documents  are  being    *<"•"*«   <1 

menls 

steadily  reduced,  duplicates  being  compared  and  discarded, 
sets  made  up  for  binding,  want  lists  prepared,  and  applica- 
tions for  missing  volumes  and  numbers  sent  out.  This 
work  will  probably  be  completed  during  the  current  year. 

About  600  volumes  of  Italian  parliamentary  papers  needed 
to  carry  the  set  in  the  Library  back  to  the  beginning  in 
1848  have  recently  been  acquired  by  purchase. 

During  the  year  2,344  volumes  and  599  pamphlets  (total  Duplicates 
2,943),  duplicates  of  United  States  documents,  have  been 
sent  to  the  office  of  the  Superintendent  of  Documents.  All 
other  duplicates  were  transferred  to  the  custody  of  the 
Order  Division  January  i,  1906,  for  elimination  by  inter- 
library  exchange  or  otherwise. 


THE    LAW    LIBRARY 


A  ccessions 


How  acquired 

1904-5 

1905-6 

Main 
Library 

Confer- 
ence 
Library 

Main 
Library 

Confer- 
ence 
Library 

2  679 

i  329 

By  gift  
By  purchase  

2,  156 

36 
355 

2,826 

54 
299 

Total  

7,362 

39i 

5,330 

353 

Total  accessions  

7,753 
110,978 

5,683 
116,661 

Many  of  the  gaps  in  the  second  set  of  the  various  Amer- 
ican State  reports  at  the  I, aw  Library  have  been  filled. 
Something  has  also  been  done  toward  filling  out  our  collec- 
tion of  English  and  British  colonial  reports,  Canadian  laws, 
English  and  American  periodicals,  and  the  laws  of  Brazil, 
Portugal,  the  Netherlands,  and  Spain. 

The  more   noteworthy    accessions    by   gift    have   been:    Gifts 
Brazil,  Colleccao  das  leis,   1826-1867,   1879-1901,    61  vol- 


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nines;  Collecfao  das  decisoes,  1826-1867,  1879-1899,  62 
volumes;  Bulgaria,  Laws  and  court  reports,  1880-1900,  91 
volumes;  Italy,  Raccolta  nmciale  delle  leggi  e  dei  decreti, 
1861-1904,  201  volumes;  Norway,  Lovtidende,  1885-1904, 
20  volumes;  Portugal,  Colleccao  da  Iegisla5ao,  1868-1903, 
35  volumes. 

more  noteworthy  accessions  bv  purchase  have  been: 


Purchases 

Austria,  Plenarbeschlusse  und  Entscheidungen  des  K.  K. 
Cassationshofes,  1881—1899,  18  volumes;  Kntscheidungen 
desK.  K.  Obersten  Gerichtshofes  in  Civilsachen,  1887-1902, 
ii  volumes;  —  Denmark,  H0jesteretstidende,  1888-1903, 
15  volumes;  Deutsche  Juristentag,  Verhandlungen,  1860- 
1905,  66  volumes;  Internationale  Kriminalistische  Vereini- 
gung,  Mitteilungen,  1889-1905,  13  volumes;  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  London,  1837-1905,  74  volumes;  Lower  Canada,  Pro- 
vincial Statutes,  1792-1836,  14  volumes;  Ordinances,  1838- 
1841,  6  volumes;  Massachusetts  Reports,  108  volumes; 
Netherlands,  Rechtspraak,  1839-1904,  201  volumes;  New 
York  Supreme  Court  reports  (Barbour,  Hun,  Silvernail), 
152  volumes;  —  Prussia,  Gesetze  und  Verordnungen,  1425- 
1812,  13  volumes;  Entscheidungen  des  koniglichen  Ober- 
tribunals,  1837-1879,  84  volumes;  Jahrbuch  fiir  Entscheid- 
ungen des  Kammergerichts  in  Sachen  der  Freiwilligen 
Gerichtsbarkeit,  1881-1905,  31  volumes;  —  Revue  del'  admin- 
istration et  du  droit  administratif  de  la  Belgique,  1851-1904, 
51  volumes;  Russia,  Collection  of  decisions  of  the  Cassa- 
tion Department  of  the  Senate,  1866-1902,  66  volumes; 
South  Carolina  Laws,  1738-1788,  4  volumes;  —  Spain,  Juris- 
prudencia  civil,  1838-1904,  101  volumes;  Jurisprudencia 
criminal,  1870-1904,  73  volumes;  Jurisprudencia  adminis- 
trativa,  1846-1902,  54  volumes;  —  Tijdschrift  ter  beoefening 
van  het  administratief  recht,  1884-1902,  19  volumes; 
Tijdschrift  voor  strafrecht,  1886-1904,  1  6  volumes. 


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THE    DIVISION   OF    MAPS    AND    CHARTS 


43 


The  following  tables,  A  and  B,  sliow,  respectively,  the    Accessions 
number  of  accessions  for  the  year  ending  June  30.    1906, 
and  the  total  number  of  pieces  in  the  Division  of  Maps: 

A — Accessions  July  /,  1905 -June  30,  1906 


Description 

By  copy- 
right 

By  pur- 
chase 

By  gift 

Total 

I  765 

2  887 

Pocket  maps    

18 

18 

Atlases  

40 

241 

97 

378 

25 

i 

37 

Total  

2,375 

2,  119 

3,000 

7,494 

TABLE  B — Total  number  of  pieces  in  Map  Division,  June  30,  1906 


Description 

June  30, 
1905 

vAcces- 
sions, 
1906 

Total 

78  538 

6  944 

85,  482 

Pocket  maps  
Atlases  

759 
3.  224 

18 
378 

777 
3,602 

123 

117 

240 

IOO 

37 

137 

Total                                                                        

82,  744 

7,494 

90,  238 

The  preceding  tables  do  not  include  the  total  number  of 
sheets  in  either  the  recently  acquired  Ordnance  Survey  or 
the  additions  to  the  Sanborn  insurance  maps.  The  survey 
comprises  topographical  and  geological  maps  of  England, 
Scotland,  Ireland,  and  Wales,  in  12,386  sheets.  During 
the  year  705  Sanborn  insurance  maps  in  7,117  sheets  have 
been  added,  making  a  total  of  13,387  maps  in  108,884  sheets. 

The  increase  in  the  number  of  purchased  maps  and 
atlases  noticeable  in  the  above  tables  is  due  to  the  unusual 
advantages  afforded  by  a  personal  visit  to  the  foreign 
markets  by  the  chief  of  this  Division. 

During  the  last  few  months  the  demands  for  Louisiana  MANUSCRIPT 
material  have  surpassed  all  others  save  those  of  the  various    Louisiana 


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MANUSCRIPT   departments  of   the  Government.     In   this  connection  we 

MAPS. 

were  fortunate  in  having  secured  the  following: 

(i)  A  "  Plan  de  la  cote  de  la  Louizianne,"  by  the  pilot 
Jean  Oliuier,  found  in  his  manuscript  ' '  Livre  de  plusieurs 
plans  des  ports  &  rades  de  la  mer  Mediterranee. ' ' 

(2-3)  "  Carte  particuliere  d'une  partie  de  la  Louisianne 
.  .  1743." — "Carte  particuliere  du  cours  du  fleuve  st  [!] 
Louis  depuis  le  village  sauvage  jusqu'  au  dessous  du  detour 
aux  anglois  .  .  .  1749."  These  two  extensive  plans  were 
drawn  in  New  Orleans  and  signed  "Demarigny."  They 
give  the  country  in  detail,  locate  settlements,  and  contain 
many  names  of  landholders. 
Lake  Cham-  One  of  the  most  interesting  of  the  manuscripts  is  the  de- 

plain 

tailed  "  Carte  dv  L,ac  Champlain,"  on  which  the  boundaries 
existing  in  1740  are  given  in  connection  with  the  names  of 
the  owners  of  the  shore  property.  In  addition  there  are 
views  of  Fort  Chambly  and  Fort  St.  Frederic. 

Maine  In  a  map  of  the  ' '  Damarascoty  river ' '  and  ' '  Muscongus 

bay,"  Maine  [1794?]  a  fine  specimen  is  obtained  of  the 
work  of  Osgood  Carleton,  for  many  years  the  leading  teacher 
in  Boston  of  mathematics,  navigation,  and  map  construc- 
tion, and  the  maker  of  well  known  maps  of  Boston,  New 
Hampshire,  Massachusetts,  and  the  United  States. 

New  Hamp-      "The  prospect  draft  of  Fort  William  and  Mary  on  Pisca- 

shire 

tagua  river  in  ye  province  of  New  Hampshire"  [1705?] 
gives  in  detail  the  "newly  made"  buildings  and  shows  the 
' '  Town  of  New  Castle  on  the  Great  Island, ' '  near  which  is 
anchored  the  "Province  gaily  [!],"  commanded  by  Capt. 
Cyprian  Southack,  famous  for  his  maps  of  the  New  England 
coast. 

While  the  Library  already  possesses  several  noted  collec- 
tions covering  the  period  of  the  American  Revolution,  it  is 
of  importance  that  the  collection  as  u  whole  be  strength- 
ened and  the  necessarily  Existing  gaps  be  filled  as  oppor- 


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tunities  arise.  It  is,  therefore,  gratifying  to  mention  the 
addenda  comprised  in  the  following  original  contemporary 
drawings:  (i)  A  "  Reconnoissance  de  King's  Bridge,"  in  A'e71'  Yink 
two  well  executed  plans,  in  colors,  of  the  territory  bounding 
the  North  River  and  Harlem  Creek  and  a  part  of  Long 
Island,  showing  Fort  Washington,  Fort  Laurel  Hill,  redoubt 
of  King's  Bridge  or  Fort  Charles  and  Cox  Hill,  Fort  Inde- 
pendence, etc.  Also  a  large  colored  "Plan  of  New  York 
and  Staten  Islands  with  part  of  Long  Island,  survey 'd  in 
the  years  1781  &  82,"  with  an  attached  plan  of  Staten 
Island  and  the  Narrows  on  an  enlarged  scale.  This  larger 
map,  while  not  relating  directly  to  the  Revolution,  is  espe- 
cially valuable  in  showing  all  the  roads  in  addition  to  the 
chief  topographical  features  of  the  country  embraced.  (2)  Monmouth 
A  plan  of  the  "  Battle  of  Monmouth,  June  28,  1778,"  im- 
portant in  showing  the  position  of  the  British  as  well  as  of 
the  American  troops  the  night  before  the  battle;  the  various 
positions  taken  by  Gen.  Charles  Lee  during  his  retreat;  the 
disposition  of  the  army  of  General  Washington  after  he  left 
Lee;  the  spot  where  they  met;  the  battle  of  Princeton,  and 
the  British  position  after  the  action.  (3)  A  "  Sketch  of  the  camde»,  N.J. 
battle  of  Camden,  Aug.  16:  1780,"  by  Lieutenant  Valiancy. 
(4)  An  interesting  plan  showing  the  march  of  the  British  Pennsylvania 
army  from  the  landing  at  the  head  of  the  Elk  to  the 
taking  of  Philadelphia,  \vith  lines  to  indicate  the  supposed 
march  of  the  rebels.  (5)  A  "  Plan  des  ouvrages  de  Ports-  Portsmouth, 
mouth  en  Virginie,"  locating  the  entrenchments  and  troops. 
(6)  A  small  drawing  illustrating  the  siege  of  Savannah, 
Ga.,  indicates  the  various  positions  of  troops  of  both  the 
British  and  American  armies.  (7)  This  class  is  further 
strengthened  by  the  addition  of  seven  colored  views  of: 
O)  Castle  William,  1773;  (£)  Fort  William,  1770;  (c) 
Bristol  Neck,  R.  I.,  1765;  (d)  Boston  [1775] ,  showing  the 
Mistic  River — Charlestown  Point,  where  the  British  landed- 


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the  1  7th  of  June  —  the  Somerset  at  anchor;  (e)  View  from 
Charlestown,  1773;  (f—g)  The  Narrows  near  New  York, 
1798  (2  views). 

An  interesting  collection  entitled  "Cotes  de  la  Guiane" 
Guiana          consists  of  fourteen  colored  maps  covering  the  period  from 
1713  to  1799.     Aside  from  their  historical  .value  they  are 
of  additional  interest  owing  to  their  perfect  execution,  fine 
coloring,  and  completeness. 

Somewhat  relative  are  nine  colored  maps  of  various  West 
India  islands  and  neighboring  ports  from  1700?  to  1789. 
The  most  interesting  are:  (i)  "Plan  de  1'isle  a  Vache  & 
coste  de  St.  Domingue  "  [1700?]  ,  showing  three  active  vol- 
canos;  (2)  "A  plan  of  Georg-Stadt  camp  near  the  river 
Guantamano  in  the  island  of  Cuba  ...  by  John  Thomas" 


Occassionally  these  old  charts  are  found  to  be  still  the 
only  or  the  most  accurate  ones  existing  and  prove  of  value, 
in  comparisons,  in  drawing  new  charts. 

Good  examples  of  early  cartographical  work  on  vellum 

are  a  plan  of  L,ima,  Peru,  in  1674,  by  Bernado  Clemente, 

and  two  portolanos.     Of  these,  one,  beautifully  illuminated, 

is  in  two  sheets  bound  in  heavy  wooden  covers  and  signed 

"  louan  Batta  Cauullini  fecit  in  ciuitate  Liburni  anno  1640." 

This  is  primarily  of  the  Mediterranean  and  bordering  coun- 

tries, but  also  contains  a  curious  inset  drawing  of  the  Ameri- 

can continent.     The  other,  a  vellum  bound  portolano  of  the 

early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  composed  of  charts 

of   Asia,   Africa,   the   Mediterranean   coasts,   islands,   etc., 

with  '  '  Mare  Oceano  '  '  and  a  sphere  containing  America,  is 

the  original  colored  chart  on  four  sheets  of  vellum. 

Engraved     Among  the  engraved  maps  are:    (i)  "  Plan  of  the  colony 

»tap  of  Connecticut    in  North  America  ...  by  Moses  Park," 

Carieton's  map  published  in   1766.     (2)  Osgood  Carleton's  map  of  Massa- 

of    Massachu- 

setts chusetts  published  about   1798,  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the 


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legislature  issued  in  1794  requiring  the  towns  of  the  Com- 
monwealth to  prepare  and  place  with  him  manuscript  maps 
of  their  several  bounds.  (3)  "A  new  map  of  the  country  of 
Carolina"  mentioned  in  the  work  entitled  "Carolina,  a 
description  of  the  .  .  .  country"  .  .  .  London,  1682. 

(4)  The  last  edition  of  Mouzon's  map,  in  two  large  sheets, 
of  North  and  South  Carolina,  published  in  London,  1794. 

(5)  "6tats-UnisderAmeriqueSeptentrionale  .    .   .  1785," 
containing  the   names  proposed    by   Thomas    Jefferson   in   Jgffersonian 

names  for  Nortk- 

his  ordinance  of  1784  for  the  new  states  upon  their  forma-  wesi  Territory 

tion  from  the  National  Territory.     As  the  ordinance  was 

defeated,  owing  to  its  slavery  clause,  the  names  were  not 

adopted,  but  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  out  of  the  ten  pro- . 

posed,    three — Washington,    Illinois,    and   Michigan — have 

since  been  appropriated.     The  only  other  known  copy  of 

this  famous  map  in  this  country  is  the  one  in  the  New  York 

State  library.     (6)  A  map  of  "The  seat  of  war  in   New    New  Ensiand 

England,  by  an  American  volunteer,"  published  in  London, 

1775.     This  shows  the  marches  of  the  several  corps  sent  by 

the  colonies  and  the  march  of  General  Washington  with 

troops,  artillery,  and  baggage  wagons.     An  inset  of  Boston 

indicates   the    "  Incampment    [!]    of   the   regulars   on   the 

Common." 

Among  other  additions  may  be  mentioned: 

A  "  Globus  terrestris  novus  .  .  .  opera  loh.  Gabr.   Dop-    Globe 
pelmaieri  .  .  .  concinne  traditus  a  loh.   Georg  Puschnero, 
1750"  showing  the  American  continent,  omitting  the  north- 
eastern portion  of  America. 

The  New  York  material  is  further  augmented  by  a  per-  Rocque"s  plans 
feet  copy  of  Rocque's  "A  set  of  plans  and  forts  in  America, 
1763."  This  edition  is  extremely  rare  and  is  seldom  found 
with  the  plan  of  New  York  City,  reduced  from  the  survey 
drawn  originally  in  1755  by  Maerschalck  and  known  from 
its  publisher  as  the  Duyckinck  map. 


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MAP  DIVISION:       In   this  class    is    also  included    "  Recueil    des   plans   de 
Mans  1'  Amerique  Septentrionale, ' '  published  in  Paris  by  Le  Rouge 

in  1755.  It  comprises  rare  maps,  views,  and  plans  of  forti- 
fications. 

Atlases  Among  the  more  important  atlases  received  during  the 

ptoiemy          year  are    four  editions   of    Ptolemy;    and    of  Ortelius    the 
ottt-iius          editions  of  1570,  1592,  1595,  1604,  and  1684  of  the  atlases; 
and  1602  and  1603?  of  the  epitomes. 

In  all  378  atlases  have  been   acquired,  ranging  from  the 

above-mentioned   editions  of  famous  works  to   the   useful 

county  atlases  county    atlases   so    extensively   consulted    by   the   various 

Government  Departments. 
Foreign    GOV-     The  "  Check  list  of  large  scale  maps  published  by  foreign 

eminent  Maps  . 

governments  (Great  Britain  excepted)  issued  by  the  Library 
and  distributed  through  the  agency  of  the  United  States 
consuls,  has  produced  excellent  results.  The  Italian,  Eng- 
lish, German,  and  Siamese  Governments  have  already 
responded. 
ordnance ' Sur-  The  most  important  of  these  maps  is  the  gift  from  the 

of      Great 

Britain  British  Government  of  its  great  Ordnance  Survey  map  in 

12,386  sheets.  This  is  possibly  the  only  complete  set  in 
this  country  and  is  an  indispensable  adjunct  to  a  carto- 
graphical collection,  being  not  only  a  detailed  description  of 
the  country  covered  but  a  fine  example  of  map  work. 


Music: 

Accessions 


THB    DIVISION    OK    IMTSIC 


How  acquired 

1905 

1906 

22   6yi 

Bv  eift 

161 

1  14 

By  purchase  '  

i,575 

3,  704 

66 

56 

By  binding  

58 

Total  accessions  

24,  934 

28,  977 

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The  accessions  during  the  past  fiscal  year  have  thus 
amounted  to  28,977  volumes  and  pieces.  (Music,  27,158; 
literature  of  music,  627;  musical  instruction,  1,192.)  The 
figures  of  1904-5  were  27,431,  24,934,  1,050,  1,447,  2,742. 

The  collections  were  further  energetically  developed  on  Mrsi^ 

Act  i 

the  lines  of  the  general  plan  formulated  in  1903.  The 
accessions  have  been  so  numerous  and  important  that 
only  a  detailed  description  would  do  them  justice.  Gen- 
erally speaking,  the  accessions  to  M  (Music)  have  fur- 
ther strengthened  to  a  very  notable  degree  the  collection 
of  compositions  by  eminent  composers  of  the  last  fifty 
years  (e.  g.,  Kiel,  Rubinstein,  Raff,  von  Herzogenberg, 
Gade,  Franz,  Grieg,  Volkmann,  Bizet,  Gounod,  Massenet, 
Faure,  Draeseke,  Bruch,  Smetana,  Fibich,  and  many 
others).  Several  hundred  important  and  in  part  very 
scarce  full  scores  of  operas  have  been  added,  with  the 
result  that  this  special  collection  will  now  be  found  to 
rank  very  high.  In  Americana  the  Library  succeeded  in 
Obtaining  works  by  Hopkinson,  Billings,  Gualdo,  Capron, 
Brown,  Reinagle,  Carr,  Raynor  Taylor,  to  mention  a  few 
eighteenth  century  musicians.  Also  numerous  pieces  of 
the  Civil  War  period  were  added,  and  of  more  recent 
American  music  the  original  European  editions  of  Nevin's 
works  and  in  transcript  the  scores  of  the  late  Prof.  John 
Knowles  Paine' s  mass  in  D,  Song  of  promise,  and  others. 
Among  the  accessions  of ,  European  music  prior  to  the 
nineteenth  century  deserve  particular  mention  unpub- 
lished divertimenti  of  Haydn  —  symphonies,  cantatas, 
sonatas,  etc. — by  dall'  Abaco,  Albinoni,  Benda,  Campra, 
Filtz,  Galuppi,  Guglielmi,  Hasse,  Muffat,  and  many 
others. 

In  the  field  of  literature  and  theory  of  music  again  con- 
siderable attention  was  paid  to  material  published  before 
1800,  perhaps  the  most  important  acquisition  being  Tovar's 


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Ljbro  de  Musica  Practica,  1510.  A  special  effort  was  made 
to  improve  the  collection  of  musical  biography,  aud  the  plan 
of  systematically  filling  gaps  in  the  literature  of  music  was 
taken  up  successfully  for  publications  issued  during  the  last 
fifteen  years. 

The  Music  Division  now  contains  (estimated)  451,834 
volumes,  pamphlets,  and  pieces.  (Music,  436,510;  litera- 
ture of  music,  6,410;  musical  instruction,  8,914.) 

THE    DIVISION    OF    PERIODICALS 


Serials      cut- 
rently  received 


How  acquired 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

•  1905 

1906 

Gifts  and  transfers  
Copyright  Office  

3,038 
1,383 

2,638 
i  138 

2,861 
i  246 

3,128 
i  421 

3,850 

4,47i 

Subscription  

823 

811 

i,  013 

i  047 

i  981 

I   4S8 

I    6?Q 

>   3 

Total  (titles  not  volumes)  .  . 

7,225 

6,045 

6,390 

7,277 

9,  216 

10,468 

Among  notable  accessions  of  past  issues  have  been  part 
files  of  early  California  newspapers  (enhanced  now  in  im- 
portance through  the  destruction  of  similar  files  at  San 
Francisco);  a  volume  of  Holt's  New  York  journal,  1772-73, 
and  of  Zenger's  New  York  weekly  journal,  1733-37. 

THE    DIVISION    OF    PRINTS 


PRINTS: 
Accessions                                                   How  acquired 

1904-5 

1905-6 

By  copyright  
By  gift  

16,  611 
2,914 

i,  280 

By  purchase  
By  transfer  
By  exchange    

4,828 
902 

IS 

ii,  160 
2,309 
17 

Total  accessions  (  pieces)  

25,  273 

33,041 

Grand  total  of  pieces  in  Division  July  i 
1905  
1006  ..  . 

.  .  183,  746 

.  .    2l6.  124 

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Among  the  accessions  by  gift  have  been  9  engravings  1>KINTS: 
by  Du'rer  bought  by  Mrs.  Gardiner  Greene  Hubbard  as 
additions  to  the  Hubbard  collection;  67  rare  engravings 
and  lithographs  presented  by  the  Society  of  Iconophiles, 
of  New  York  City;  and  162  photographs  of  paintings  in 
the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art  presented  by  the  trustees. 

The  collection  of  prints  belonging  to  the  late  George  Bradlcy  collec- 
Lothrop  Bradley,  of  Washington,  which  has  been  on 
deposit  in  the  Library  for  the  past  five  years,  is,  in  accord- 
ance with  his  will,  to  come  into  the  permanent  possession 
of  the  Library  subject  to  the  life  interest  of  Mrs.  Bradley. 
The  collection  comprises  1,466  engravings,  361  reproduc- 
tions in  portfolio  form,  153  photographs,  and  a  few  volumes 
of  illustrated  art  works.  The  engravings,  representing  all 
schools,  include,  among  others,  examples  of  the  work  of 
Bolswert,  Carracci,  Cranach,  Diirer,  Edelinck,  Goltzius, 
Haig,  Hogarth,  Hopfer,  Ley  den,  Mantegna,  Morghen, 
Nanteuil,  Ostade,  Pontius,  Potter,  Rembrandt,  Rubens, 
Sadeler,  Schongauer,  Strange,  Toschi,  Turner,  Visscher, 
Vorsterman,  Waterloo,  and  Wierix. 

The  great  "Triumphal  Arch"  of  Maximilian,  by  Diirer 
(comprising  no  less  than  67  woodcuts),  came  to  us  with  the 
Lothrop  Bradley  collection,  which  has  indeed  contributed 
instructive  material  to  most  of  the  exhibits  of  particular 
schools  and  masters  displayed  in  our  halls  during  the  past 
five  years. 

A  gift  of  notable  interest  and  value  within  a  particular  j 
field  of  art  has  been  received  from  Mr.  Crosby  S.  Noyes,  of 
Washington.  It  comprises  his  entire  collection  of  original 
-  drawings,  prints,  and  books  by  Japanese  artists.  Added  to 
since  its  receipt  a  year  ago  it  includes  now  1 2  water-colors, 
145  original  drawings,  331  wood  engravings,  97  lithographs, 
658  illustrated  books,  and  61  other  items.  The  scope  and 
significance  of  the  collection  will  be  appreciated  by  the  con- 


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Noyes  gift  noisseur  from  the  mere  names  of  the  artists  and  titles  of  the 
works.  The  list  is  therefore  given  in  full  in  Appendix  V 
to  this  report.  (It  is  based  on  a  catalogue  compiled  by  a 
competent  Japanese  at  the  expense  of  Mr.  Noyes  himself) 
I  have  prefaced  it  by  the  letter  of  gift  in  which  Mr.  Noyes 
sets  forth  the  considerations  which  led  him  to  the  formation 
of  the  collection  and  induced  the  effort  and  expense  which 
he  laid  out  upon  it  during  many  years  of  acquisition  in  this 
country,  on  the  Continent,  and  in  Japan  itself. 

Selected  examples  from  the  collection  have  been  on  ex- 
hibit at  the  Library  since  last  January,  and  the  interest  of 
the  exhibit  has  been  greatly  enhanced  by  two  cases  of  other 
examples  of  the  art  of  Japan,  the  property  of  Mr.  Noyes, 
and  lent  by  him  for  the  purpose,  comprising  netsukes, 
kodzuka  handles,  sword-guards,  bronzes,  carvings  in  wood 
and  ivory,  and  ceramics;  in  all  over  500  objects. 

The  Library  and  the  thousands  of  visitors  who  have 
received  delight  and  instruction  from  such  exhibits  are  in- 
debted to  various  public  spirited  citizens  who  have  con* 
tributed  to  them  in  loans  of  material.  Superb  examples  of 
the  early  Dutch,  Flemish,  German,  and  Italian  schools, 
forming  a  present  exhibit  in  the  southwestern  pavilion, 
were  afforded  by  the  loan  of  over  800  prints  and  a  niello  plate 
by  a  collector  who  wishes  his  name  withheld.  Seventy- 
two  portraits  included  in  the  John  Paul  Jones  commemora- 
tive exhibit  \vere  lent  by  Mr.  Grenville  Kane,  of  New  York 
City.  Eighteen  prints  (mostly  etchings  by  Whistler)  and 
a  water-color,  were  lent  by  Mrs.  Thomas  Whistler,  of 
Washington;  while  the  T.  Harrison  Garrett  loan  collection 
has  been  increased  by  nearly  200  additional  prints  received 
from  Mrs.  Garrett  and  her  family. 

The  generosity  of  such  loans,  as  of  the  gifts,  implies  a 
realization  very  gratifying,  that  while  Washington  is  not  in 
resident  population  a  metropolis  it  is  actually  such  in  the 


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multitudes  that  have  recourse  to  it  from  all  parts  of  the 
globe;  and  that  information  furnished  here,  influences  exerted 
here,  have  a  multiple  and  far  extending  potency. 

The  acquisitions  by  purchase  have  as  usual  included  only 

I'm     • 

prints  of  subsidiary  fohn.  Among  the  most  interesting 
groups  of  these  are  (i)  a  collection  of  2,300  photographs 
taken  by  Brady  during  the  civil  war,  (2)  925  photographs 
of  objects  in  the  Boston  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  and  (3) 
some  7,000  photographs  of  paintings  and  sculpture  in  Euro- 
pean galleries  and  of  foreign  architecture. 

The  annual  accessions  to  the  print  collections  are  so  con- 
siderable in  volume  that  the  following  analysis  is  necessary 
to  an  understandin  of  their  limitations: 


Original  drawings  .  .  . 
Engravings  
Mezzotints  

150 
604 
8 

Typogravures  
Facsimiles  
Ivithographs  

658  PRINTS: 
AJ      Classified     ac- 
cessions  1905-6 

Etchings  
Photogravures 

132 
7Q2 

Japanese  illustrated  books 
Japanese  miscellaneous 

658 

Photosrraphs  .  . 

.     27,  760 

books  .  . 

.S4 

Among  the  special  exhibits  of  the  year  that  of  Rembrandt 
(commemorative  of  the  tercentenary  of  his  birth)  has  been 
the  most  notable;  has  indeed  been  characterized  as  "the 
most  complete  collection  of  this  great  master's  works  ever 
shown  in  America."  It  comprised  no  less  than  550  prints, 
of  which  301  were  etchings,  154  reproductions  of  paintings, 
and  95  drawings.  How  nearly  representative  was  the  ex- 
hibit will  be  evident  when  it  is  recalled  that  the  total  number 
of  etchings  credited  to  Rembrandt  does  not  exceed  375. 

BINDING    AND    REPAIR 

The  total  number  of  volumes  bound  during  the  year  was 
36,020  as  against  30,817  for  the  year  preceding.  Of  these 
23,356  pieces  were  handled  at  the  branch  bindery  in  the 
Library  building. 


54  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

CLASSIFICATION  AND   CATALOGUING 

The  total  number  of  volumes  catalogued  amounted  to 
117,398.  In  addition  2,039  parts  of  volumes  were  added 
on  the  serial  record  of  the  Catalogue  Division,  and  9,306 
volumes  were,  after  careful  search  and  comparison,  rejected 
as  duplicates.  There  is  an  increase  in  cataloguing  over 
last  year's  record  of  6,025  volumes.  Owing  to  the  gradual 
extension  of  the  classes  in  which  new  accessions  require 
full  subject  entries,  the  many  changes  in  the  personnel  of 
the  cataloguing  force  during  the  year,  and  also  the  great 
amount  of  time  which  had  to  be  expended  on  revision  of 
the  subject-heading  list  (January  i5~April  30),  an  increase 
during  the  present  year  is  particularly  gratifying. 

Cards  filed  Seven  hundred  and  seven  thousand  three  hundred  and 

sixty-eight  catalogue  cards  were  filed  in  the  various  cata- 
logues of  the  Division  exclusive  of  the  general  Union  cata- 
logue, for  which  no  record  is  available.  The  number  for 
1904-5  was  627,557;  for  1903-4,  577,427;  for  1902-3, 
51 1 ,242.  This  appreciable  increase  is  accounted  for  by  the 
extension  of  the  new  classification,  the  greater  number  of 
new  accessions  which  now  require  subject  entries,  and  more 
especially  the  increase  in  number  of  volumes  recatalogued, 
50,157  as  against  38,300  in  1904-5,  25,940111  1903-4,  20,939 
in  1902-3. 

The  recataloguing  of  the  following  classes  was  completed 
in  the  course  of  the  year:  Archives,  Diplomatics  (CD); 
Chronology  (CK);  Anthropology  (GN);  Telegraph  and 
Telephone  (HE);  Education,  General  works  (L);  History 
of  Education  (I/A);  Theory  and  practice  of  Education 
(L,B);  vScience,  General  (Q),  except  Scientific  expeditions; 
Astronomy  (QB),  except  Observations;  Meteorology  (QC), 
except  Observations;  Natural  History  (QH);  Zoology 
Bridges  and  roofs  (TG);  Hydraulic  engineering 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  55 

(TC);    Mineral    industries   (TN);    Roads   and    pavements 
(TE);  Mechanical  engineering  (TJ);  Railroads  (TF). 

Recatalogued  in  part  and  under  way:  General  works, 
Polygraphy  (A);  Commerce  (HF);  Money,  Banking,  In- 
surance (HG);  American  universities  and  schools  (LD); 
Musical  theory  (MT);  Geology  (QE);  Medicine  (R);  Ag- 
riculture (S);  English  fiction  (PZ);  Sanitary  engineer- 
ing (TD). 

The  Chief  of  the  Catalogue  Division,  as  chairman  of  the  Catalogue  rules, 
Advisory  Catalogue  committee  of  the  American  Library 
Association,  attended  meetings  of  the  latter  committee  on 
March  10-12  at  Atlantic  City  and  again  on  June  25-29  at 
Narragansett  Pier.  Sufficient  progress  was  here  made  to 
warrant  a  proposition  to  the  Catalogue  Rules  committee 
of  the  British  Library  Association  that  the  rules  on  which 
the  two  committees  have  been  cooperating  since  1904  be 
sent  to  press  during  the  coming  winter.  If  the  British 
committee  agrees  to  this  proposition  the  new  code  will 
appear  during  the  next  year.  The  material  for  it,  as  sub- 
mitted by  the  chairman  to  the  American  committee  at  its 
last  meeting,  consisted  of  about  150  rules,  with  numerous 
sample  entries,  special  appendixes,  and  a  list  of  definitions. 
With  a  few  minor  exceptions  this  code  will  then  represent 
the  system  of  cataloguing  which  governs  the  preparation 
of  entries  for  the  author  catalogue  of  the  Library  of  Con- 
gress, and  which,  owing  mainly  to  the  distribution  of  the 
Library  of  Congress  printed  cards,  bids  fair  to  bring  about 
the  long  sought  for  uniformity  in  cataloguing  methods,  at 
least  so  far  as  American  libraries  are  concerned.  As  the 
points  on  which  the  American  and  British  committees  have 
as  yet  been  unable  to  arrive  at  full  agreement  are  few 
and  of  relatively  minor  importance,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
the  great  majority  of  libraries  of  the  British  Empire  will 
also  find  it  to  their  interest  to  adopt  the  same  system. 
I<IB  1906 5 


56  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

.  cooperation      In  addition  to  the  libraries  of  the  Department  of  Agricul- 

in   cataloguing 

among  depart- ture  and  the  Geological  Survey,  the  Washington  Public  Li- 

mental  libraries 

brary  is  now  cooperating  with  the  Library  of  Congress  in 
the  printing  of  catalogue  cards.  These  four  libraries  now 
follow  practically  the  same  rules  and  are  in  agreement  as 
regards  form  or  style  of  entry,  the  result  being  that  cards 
prepared  in  one  of  the  libraries  can  be  fitted  into  the  cata- 
logues of  any  of  the  other  three  with  the  least  possible 
expenditure  of  time  and  labor. 

The  number  of  titles  printed  during  the  year  at  the 
Library  Branch  of  the  Government  Printing  Office  is  as 
follows: 

Library  of  Congress  series «  58,  243 

Library  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture I,  389 

Library  U.  S.  Geological  survey 736 

Washington  Public  Library 121 

Map  Division,  Library  of  Congress &  40 


Total 60,  529 

classification  The  number  of  volumes  classified  was  137,738  (1904-5, 
131,986);  reclassified  69,460  (including  12,971  transfers; 
1904-5,  57,243,  transfers  11,272);  new  accessions,  68,278 
(1904-5,  74,743);  shelf  listed,  95,812,  of  which  39,323 
were  new  accessions  (1904-5,  shelf  listed;  83,381,  new 
accessions,  37,410). 

The  reclassified  portion  of  the  Library  now  contains, 
in  round  numbers,  480,000  volumes,  classified  as  follows: 
Class  A  (Polygraphy),  34,000;  D  (History),  67,000;  B  and 
F  (America),  46,000;  G  (Geography),  13,000;  H  (Social 
sciences),  48,000;  L  (Education),  11,000;  ML  and  MT 
(Music,  literature  and  theory),  9,000;  PZ  (Fiction),  11,000; 
Q  (Science),  83,000;  R  (Medicine),  27,000;  S  (Agricul- 
ture), 24,000;  T( Technology),  44,000;  U  (Military  science), 
8,000;  V  (Naval  science),  8,000;  Z  (Bibliography),  46,000; 
Congressional  reference  library,  Incunabula,  etc.,  4,000. 


« Including  10,092  titles  reprinted.  &  Entries  for  atlases. 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  57 

DISTRIBUTION   OF   PRINTED    CATALOGUE    CARDS 

During  the  year  156  names  have  been  added  to  the  list    Subscribers  to 

the  cards 

of  subscribers,  bringing  the  total  number  of  libraries,  indi- 
viduals, and  firms  which  have  thus  far  subscribed  up  to 
764.  About  30  per  cent  of  the  new  subscribers  are  public 
libraries  of  less  than  10,000  volumes. 

Subscribers  classified 

Public  libraries  of  over  100,000  volumes 24 

Public  libraries  of  from  25,000  to  100,000  volumes 69 

Public  libraries  of  from  10,000  to  25,000  volumes 105 

Public  libraries  of  less  than  10,000  volumes 239 

University  libraries 36 

College  libraries j^ 

Public  and  normal  school  libraries 44 

Libraries  of  Departments  of  the  United  States  Government 27 

Libraries  of  Departments  of  foreign  Governments 2 

State  libraries ...  18 

Law  libraries 4 

Theological  libraries 12 

Libraries  of  learned  societies 30 

Libraries  of  art 2 

Library  of  bibliography I 

Booksellers 6 

Publishers 10 

State  library  commissions 3 

Individuals  and  firms 59 

Total 764 

The  increase  in  the  sale  of  cards  during  1905-6,  as  com-  Sale  °J 'cards 
pared  with  that  of  the  previous  year,  has  been  a  fraction 
less  than  10  per  cent.  That  the  increase  has  been  but  mod- 
erate is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  sale  of  last  year  was  abnor- 
mally large  on  account  of  the  demand  for  cards  for  books 
listed  in  the  A.  L/.  A.  Catalog. 

In  the  following  tabulation  of  the  sale  of  cards  the  amount 
realized  from  subscription  to  proof  sheets  is  included.  The 
amounts  charged  against  the  appropriations  of  the  United 
States  Departments  for  cards  furnished  through  the  L/ibrary 
branch  of  the  Government  Printing  Office  is  not  included  in 
the  cash  sales,  but  is  given  as  a  separate  item. 


58  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

Sale  of  cards  by  months 

CARD  SECTION:  July $^2.  55 

Sale   of  cards  A           t g  g  ^ 

by  months 

September 996.  93 


October 

November  . . 
December.    . 

January 

February  . . . 
March    ..... 

April 

May 

June 


331.56 

550.  20 
486.06 
367-  03 
297.  48 
031.  24 
356.  03 
523-  65 
978.  22 


Total $16,  746.  97 

Sales  to  libraries  of  the  United  States  Departments  on  requi- 
sitions obtained  from  the  Government  Printing  Office. . .         805. 31 

Deposits  received  for  cards 

Deposits  r<?-July $643.  69 

ceived  for  cards     August 952.  48 


September 
October . . . 
November 
December . 
January. . . 


310.01 

765- 14 
642.  96 

575-  50 
015.40 
,  341.  03 
,791.50 
,  1 80.  70 
,  460.  25 
June 2,  711.  78 


February 
March  . . . 
April 
May 


Total  deposits 18,  390. 44 

Deposits  refunded 175.  26 

Net  total $18,  215. 18 

orde-,  s  for     The  demand  for  cards  for  books  listed  in  the  A.  I,.  A. 

cards 

Catalog  has  been  steady  but  not  large  as  compared  with 
that  of  last  year.  Three  complete  sets  only  have  been 
supplied. 

The  proportion  of  orders  by  card  number  as  compared 
with  those  by  author  and  title  has  much  increased.  This 
increase  has  been  largely  due  to  the  use  of  the  A.  L.  A. 
Book  L,ist  by  libraries  as  a  means  of  ordering  cards  for  cur- 
rent English  books,  the  L,.  C.  card  numbers  having  been 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  59 

regularly  printed  in  this,  by  arrangement  with  the  A.  L,.  A. 
Publishing  Board.  The  ' '  Cumulative  book  index  ' '  seems 
also  to  have  been  used  to  a  considerable  extent  as  a  means 
of  ordering  cards  by  number. 

The  number  of  cards  purchased  by  publishers  in  quantity 
and  redistributed  for  advertising  purposes  has  increased  but 
8  per  cent. 

Cards  for  about  45,0x30  titles  have  been  added  to  the  stock    The   stock  oj 

cards 

during  the  year,  making  the  total  number  of  titles  now 
covered  by  the  stock  approximately  225,000. 

No   addition   has   been    made    during   the   year    to  the    The  deP°sitory 

libraries 

regular  depository  libraries.  The  list  published  in  last 
year's  report  is  therefore  unchanged. 

Three  files  of  clipped  proof  sheets  have  been  completed 
by  the  assignment  of  a  .set  of  the  cards  printed  before 
the  proof  sheets  were  issued  to  Iceland  Stanford  Univer- 
sity, to  Wesleyan  University  (Middletown,  Conn.)  and 
to  Cornell  University. 

Seven  additional  partial  depositories  have  been  made 
in  libraries  of  Departments  of  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment, the  deposits  being  made  up  in  each  case  of  cards 
for  books  closely  related  to  the  work  of  the  Department 
to  which  the  cards  were  assigned. 

The  complete  list  of  partial  depositories  at  present  is 
as  follows,  the  libraries  added  during  the  year  being 
marked  with  an  asterisk: 

ARMY  WAR  COU,EGE: 

Cards  relating  to  military  science  and  military  history. 
BUREAU  OF  THE  CENSUS: 

Cards  on  sociology  and  selected  topics  in  science  and  technology 
*  BUREAU  OF  SCIENCE  (MANILA,  P.  I.): 

Cards  for  science,  technology,  anthropology,  and  ethnology. 
COAST  AND  GEODETIC  SURVEY: 

Cards  covering  such  branches  of  science  and  technology  as  are 
related  to  the  work  of  the  Survey. 
DEPARTMENT  OF  COMMERCE  AND  I/ABOR: 

Complete  sets  of  cards  on  sociology  and  bibliography. 


60  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

*  ENGINEER  SCHOOL,  (WAR  DEPARTMENT): 

Cards  for  military  and  naval  history,  science  and  biography, 
and  certain  groups  in  technology,  science,  and  political  science. 
GEOLOGICAL  SURVEY: 

Cards   covering  such  branches   of   science  and  technology  as 
are  related  to  the  work  of  the  Survey. 
INTERNATIONA^,  BUREAU  OF  THE  AMERICAN  REPUBLICS: 

Cards  relating  to  the  Central  and  South  American  Republics. 

*  INTERSTATE  COMMERCE  COMMISSION: 

Cards  for  certain  groups  in  sociology,  economics,  law,  technol- 
ogy, and  Government  documents  relating  to  these  subjects. 
NATIONAL  BUREAU  OF  STANDARDS: 

Cards  relating  to  certain  branches  of  science  and  technology. 
NAVAL  OBSERVATORY: 

Cards  for  science,  mathematics,  and  physics. 

*  NAVAL  WAR  COLLEGE: 

Cards  for  military  and  naval  history,  science,  biography,  and 
international  law. 
*NAVY  GENERAL  BOARD: 

Cards  for  military  and  naval  history,  science,  biography;  inter- 
national law;  certain  groups  in  political  science  and  geography. 

*  POST-OFFICE  DEPARTMENT: 

All   cards  relating  to  the  postal  service  of  the  United   States 
and  other  countries. 

*  SUPERVISING  ARCHITECT'S  OFFICE: 

All  cards  on   architecture,   building,  engineering,   and   allied 
groups  in  technology. 
WAR  DEPARTMENT: 

Complete  set  of  cards  on_American  history,  and  cards  on  sub- 
jects pertaining  to  the  work  of  the  War  Department. 

Decided  progress  has  been  made  during  the  year  in  the 
distribution  of  cards  for  Government  documents. 

Since  the  beginning  of  the  card  distribution  work  the  de- 
mand for  cards  for  Government  documents  has  been  urgent 
and  increasing.  Such  cards  are  needed  for  the  catalogues 
of  the  Library  of  Congress,  for  its  bibliographical  work, 
and  to  supply  the  needs  of  libraries  which  are  subscribers 
to  the  Iy.  C.  cards.  The  latter  demand  became  particularly 
acute  when  the  free  distribution  of  cards  by  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Documents  to  libraries  which  are  depositories  for 
United  States  Government  Documents  was  discontinued  in 
the  latter  part  of  1905. 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  61 

PUBLICATIONS 

The  publications  of  the  library  during  the  past  year  have 
been  as  follows: 

Library  of  Congress  publications.  A  List.  1 897-1906. 
1906.  32  pp.  4°. 

The  Library  of  Congress  and  its  work.  1905.  8  pp. 
16°. 

Report  of  the  librarian  of  Congress  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June  30,  1905.  1906.  318  pp.  Plates.  8°. 

Special  rules  on  cataloguing,  to  supplement  A.  L.  A. 
rules — advance  edition.  1-21.  Issued  for  the  use  of 
the  Catalogue  Division  of  the  Library  of  Congress. 
1906.  26  pp.  8°. 

A.  L.  A.  portrait  index,,  Index  to  portraits  con- 
tained in  printed  books  and  periodicals,  compiled 
for  the  Publishing  Board  of  the  American  Library 
Association;  edited  by  W.  C.  Lane  and  Nina  K. 
Browne.  1906.  1601  pp.  8°.  In  Press. 

For  sale  only  at  $3.00  per  copy. 
The  following  has  been  reprinted: 

Bibliography  of  cooperative  cataloguing  and  the  print- 
ing of  catalogue  cards  (1850—1902).  By  Torstein 
Jahr  and  Adam  Julius  Strohm.  (Reprinted  from  the 
Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress,  1902.)  1903. 

'    u6pp.     8°. 
Compiled  by  the  Division  of  Bibliography: 

Select  list  of  references  on  Anglo-Saxon  interests. 
Second  issue  with  additions.  1906.  22  pp.  8°. 

List  of  cartularies  (principally  French)  recently  added 
to  the  Library  of  Congress  with  some  earlier  acces- 
sions. 1905.  30  pp.  8°. 

List  of  books  (with  references  to  periodicals)  relating 
to  child  labor.  1906.  66pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  works  relating  to  employers  liability. 
1906.  25  pp.  8°. 

List  of  discussions  of  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  amend- 
ments with  special  reference  to  negro  suffrage.  1906. 
18  pp.  8°. 


62  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

^ist  of  works  relating  to  government  regulation  of 
insurance,  United  States  and  foreign  countries. 
1906.  46pp.  8°. 

A  list  of  books  (with  references  to  periodicals)  on  mer- 
cantile marine  subsidies.  Third  edition,  with  addi- 
tions. 1906.  104  pp.  8°. 

A  list  of  books  (with  references  to  periodicals)  on  immi- 
gration. Second  issue  with  additions.  1905.  99 
pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  books  on  municipal  affairs  with  special 
reference  to  municipal  ownership.  With  appendix, 
Select  list  of  State- documents.  1906.  34  pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  references  on  the  negro  question.  Sec- 
ond issue  with  additions.  1906.  61  pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  books  on  railroads  in  foreign  countries. 
Government  regulation.  General:  Continental  Eu- 
rope; International  freight  agreement;  Great  Britain; 
France;  Germany;  Belgium;  Switzerland;  Italy; 
Austria-Hungary;  Russia.  1905.  72  pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  references  on  the  British  tariff  movement 
(Chamberlain's  plan).  Second  issue,  with  additions. 
1906.  60  pp.  8°. 

List   of   works'   on   the    tariffs   of    foreign    countries. 
General:  Continental  tariff  union;  France;  Germany; 
Switzerland;  Italy;  Russia;  Canada.      1906.     42  pp. 
8°. 
The  following  lists  have  been  reprinted: 

List  of  the  more  important  works  in  the  Library  of  Con- 
gress on  banks  and  banking.  1904.  55  pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  references  on  Chinese  immigration.  1904. 
30  pp.  8°. 

List  of  references  on  the  United  States  consular  serv- 
ice, with  appendix  on  consular  systems  in  foreign 
countries.  1905.  27  pp.  8°. 

A  list  of  works  relating  to  the  Germans  in  the  United 
States.  1904.  32  pp.  8°. 

Select  list  of  references  on  government  ownership  of 
•  railroads.     1903.     14  pp.     8°. 

List  of  references  on  primary  elections,  particularly  di- 
rect primaries.  1905.  25  pp.  8°. 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress         •     63 
List  of  works  on  the  tariffs  of  foreign  countries.     1906.  PUBLICATIONS 

OF      THI         I.I 
42    pp.         8     .  BRARY 

Compiled  by  the  Card  Section: 

Bulletins  10-19.  December  15,  igos-June  21,  1906. 
55-1 14  pp.  8°. 

10.  Traveling  catalogs,  n.  Scope  of  the  stock  of  printed 
cards.  12.  Methods  of  determining  and  indicating  number 
of  cards  wanted.  13.  Cards  for  Government  documents. 
14.  Cards  for  publications  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture. 15.  Cards  for  publications  of  the  U.  S.  Geological 
Survey.  16.  Orders  for  cards  by  series.  17.  Series  in  Eng- 
lish for  which  cards  are  in  stock.  18.  Series  in  American 
history  for  which  cards  are  in  stock.  19.  Series  in  foreign 
languages  for  which  cards  are  in  stock. 

Compiled  by  the  Division  of  Manuscripts: 

Journals  of  the  Continental  congress,  1774-1789. 
Edited  from  the  original  records  in  the  Library 
of  Congress  by  W.  C.  Ford,  chief,  Division  of  manu- 
scripts. Vols.  4-6.  1906.  3  vols.  4°. 

Some  papers  laid  before  the  Continental  congress,  1776. 
Taken  from  vols.  4-6  of  the  Journals  of  the  Conti- 
nental congress  issued  by  the  Library  of  Congress. 
1906.  99  pp.  4°. 

An  introduction  to  the  records  of  the  Virginia  company 
of  London,  with  a  bibliographical  list  of  the  extant 
documents.  By  Susan  M.  Kingsbury.  1905.  214 
pp.  4°. 

Ivimited  edition  of  350  copies. 

List  of  the  Benjamin  Franklin  papers  in  the  Library  of 
Congress.  1905.  322  pp.  4°. 

Records  of  the  Virginia  Company  of  London.  1619- 
1624.  Edited  by  Susan  M.  Kingsbury.  1906.  2 
vols.  4°. 

For  sale  only  at  $4  per  set. 
The  following  has  been  reprinted: 

List  of  the  Vernon- Wager  manuscripts  in  the  Library 

of  Congress.      1904.     148  pp.     3  facsimiles.     4°. 
The  publications  of  the   Copyright  Office   are  listed  in 
the  Report  of  the  Register  of  Copyrights. 


64  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

DISTRIBUTION    OF    PUBLICATIONS 

The  Library  believes  in  a  distinction  in  distribution 
between  publications  which  are  merely  records  of  adminis- 
trative activities  and  those  which  are  general  contributions 
to  knowledge.  The  former  it  would  distribute  gratis,  and, 
to  institutions  at  least,  freely.  For  the  latter  it  would 
exact  some  charge,  which,  even  if  not  meeting  the  cost, 
would  serve  to  prevent  inconsiderate  demand  and  conse- 
quent waste. 

This  policy  is  being  applied  to  certain  of  the  above  pub- 
lications, as  follows:  The  reports,  the  handbooks  descriptive 
of  the  card  distribution,  etc.,  and  the  bulletins  of  the  Copy- 
right Office  are  considered  to  belong  to  the  first  group;  the 
A.  Iy.  A.  Portrait  Index  and  the  Records  of  the  Virginia 
Company  to  the  second.  The  A.  L,.  A.  Catalog  and  the 
Journals  of  the  Continental  Congress  might  perhaps  have 
been  classed  with  the  second.  Their  distribution  has,  how- 
ever, represented  an  earlier  compromise,  a  portion  only  of 
the  edition  in  each  case  being  distributed  and  the  remainder 
being  placed  on  sale.  The  free  distribution  was,  however, 
strictly  limited  to  institutions,  and  in  the  case  of  the  Jour- 
nals (of  which  only  2,000  copies  were  printed)  to  a  limited 
number  of  institutions. 

The  ' '  Select  Lists ' '  —references  on  various  timely  sub- 
jects— are  also  contributions  to  knowledge.  They  are, 
however,  of  small  cost,  and  their  prompt  and  general  diffu- 
sion serves  a  purpose  so  useful  that  copies  are  supplied 
very  freely  to  institutions,  and  in  certain  cases  to  individual 
investigators. 

Where  a  charge  is  exacted  it  is  in  all  cases  nominal — for 
the  Journals,  $i  per  volume;  for  the  A.  L.  A.  Catalog,  50 
cents  per  copy  (cloth);  for  the  A.  L,.  A.  Portrait  Index,  $3 
per  copy  (cloth);  for  the  Records  of  the  Virginia  Company, 
$4  per  set  (2  volumes,  cloth). 

The  sales  are  entirely  through  the  Superintendent  of 
Documents,  Government  Printing  Office. 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  -65 

USB 

For  the  reasons  indicated  in  my  report  for  1905,  the  sta- 
tistics of  use  have  been  omitted.  It  seems  desirable  to 
repeat  that  statement  here: 

' '  The  statistics  reported  under  this  head  have  been 
solely  those  from  the  Main  Reading  Room.  They  have 
included  only  the  recorded  use  there,  i.  e.,  the  number 
of  readers  counted  and  the  number  of  volumes  issued 
to  them.  They  were  therefore  not  complete  even  of 
the  use  there,  for  they  omitted  that  part  of  it  which  is 
not  merely  considerable  and  growing,  but  is  most  im- 
portant— the  use  by  special  investigators  in  the  alcoves 
and  in  the  stacks.  They  took  no  account  whatever  of 
the  use  in  other  parts  of  the  building,  in  the  divisions 
handling  material  special  in  form  or  subject — Manu- 
scripts, Maps,  Music,  Prints,  Periodicals,  Documents, 
Law,  and  the  Smithsonian  Deposit — nor  of  the  still 
more  highly  significant  service  of  the  Bibliographic 
Division." 

To  give  an  idea  of  the  use  of  the  Library  in  special  re- 
search, the  following  list  of  typwritten  lists  on  special  sub- 
jects, prepared  upon  request  in  the  Division  of  Bibliogra- 
phy, is  illustrative: 

Alcohol  monopoly,  etc.,  4  pages;  Anglo-French  alliance, 
10  pages;  Australian  ballot  and  ballot  reform,  8  pages; 
Legislative  regulation  of  blacklisting  and  boycotting  in  the 
principal  foreign  countries,  3  pages;  Daniel  Boone,  supple- 
mentary to  titles  contained  in  Miner's  "Daniel  Boone," 
New  York,  1901,  3  pages;  Relations  with  Central  and  South 
America,  5  pages;  Child  labor,  factories,  mines,  etc.,  5  pages; 
Child  labor  in  the  South,  3  pages;  Chinese  boycott,  2  pages; 
Chinese  immigration,  4  pages;  David  Crockett,  7  pages; 
Currency  (bond  and  asset  currency),  6  pages;  Deep  water- 
ways from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  ocean,  20  pages;  Demo- 
cratic institutions,  7  pages;  Divorce  question,  6  pages; 


66  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

Typewritten  Dumping:  Exporting  goods  at  lower  than  domestic  prices, 

lists     on     special 

subjects  5  pages;  Classical  education,  2  pages;  Eight  hour  working 

day,  13  pages;  Executive  officers,  9  pages;  Factory  work, 
etc.,  15  pages;  Federal  incorporation  and  Federal  license,  5 
pages;  Pure  food  legislation,  3  pages;  Foreign  corporations, 
9  pages;  Government  ownership  of  mines,  7  pages;  Income 
tax  in  the  United  States,  10  pages;  Index  numbers,  8  pages; 
Initiative  and  referendum,  8  pages;  Government  regulation 
of  insurance,  4  pages;  Architecture  of  the  Library  of  Con- 
gress, 3  pages;  Manual  training,  6  pages;  Mercantile  marine 
subsidies  (supplementary),  6  pages;  Relations  of  the  United 
States  and  France  during  the  French  occupation  of  Mexico, 
1862-1867,  14  pages;  Monroe  doctrine,  5  pages;  Municipal 
franchises,  5  pages;  Municipal  gas  and  water  supply,  7 
pages;  Mythology  and  folklore,  7  pages;  Old  age  and  civil- 
service  pensions,  supplementary  to  the  list  printed  in 
Twenty-first  Annual  Report  of  the  Civil  Service  Com- 
mission, for  the  year  ended  June  30,  1904,  6  pages; 
Open  door  policy  with  China,  3  pages;  Panama  Canal,  2 
pages;  Panics  and  crises,  6  pages;  Pawnbroking,  6  pages; 
Penology,  4  pages;  Philippine  tariff,  2  pages;  Money  in  poli- 
tics, 2  pages;  Portsmouth  treaty,  2  pages;  Primary  elections, 
2  pages;  Comparative  railway  and  canal  rates,  3  pages; 
Railroad  rates  (recent  books),  3  pages;  Reciprocity  with 
Canada,  5  pages;  Use  of  oil  and  tar  products  on  roads,  3 
pages;  Rubber  production,  5  pages;  Political  and  social  con- 
ditions in  Russia,  5  pages;  Press  censorship  in  Russia,  3 
pages;  Russian  conditions  (recent  works),  3  pages;  Russo- 
Japaiiese  war,  7  pages;  Certain  considerations  in  interna- 
tional law  as  related  to  the  Russo-Japanese  war,  5  pages; 
Santo  Domingo,  36  pages;  Tammany,  6  pages;  Tariff  and 
wages,  4  pages;  Tariff  question  pro  and  con,  6  pages;  Tax- 
ation, 9  pages;  Taxation  of  corporations,  4  pages;  Tea,  coffee, 
etc.,  9  pages;  Tobacco  industry,  18  pages;  Unification  of 


Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  67 

Germany  and  Italy,  4  pages;  United  States  Congress,  3 
pages;  United  States  Senate,  21  pages;  Workingmeu's 
insurance,  9  pages;  List  of  books  published  in  America  on 
the  social  conditions  of  woman,  past  and  present,  10  pages 

READING    ROOM    FOR   THE    BLIND 

The  collection  has  been  added  to  by  gift,  and  to  a  small 
degree  (36  volumes)  by  purchase.  Twenty-two  persons  have 
contributed  sums  amounting  to  $39.65  for  street  car  tickets 
to  enable  blind  persons  to  attend  the  readings  and  musicales. 
Others  have  given  material  of  interest  to  the  reading  room 
or  extended  hospitalities  or  opportunity  for  entertainment 
to  blind  persons  frequenting  *it.  Volunteers  have  enabled 
68  readings  to  be  undertaken  and  35  musicales,  enjoyed  by 
both  blind  and  (within  the  capacity  of  the  room)  the  seeing. 

The  public  service  of  the  assistant  in  charge  includes  con- 
siderable explanation  both  to  visitors  and  by  correspondence 
of  the  various  devices  and  systems  for  promoting  the 
education  and  other  improvement  of  the  blind,  including 
industrial  homes,  workshops,  societies,  and  associations  for 
their  benefit,  her  ability  being  much  advanced  by  attend- 
ance at  conferences  for  the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of 
the  blind  held  from  time  to  time  in  this  country  and  abroad. 

EQUIPMENT 

The  progress  in  this,  to  meet  developing  needs,  appears  in 
the  report  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Library  Building 
and  Grounds,  now  issued  under  the  same  covers  with  my 
own.  The  urgent  need  unmet  is  for  a  newspaper  stack,  as 
set  forth  in  his  report  (pp.  74-77). 


68  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

NEEDED 


The  statement  of  this  in  my  last  report  (pp.  94-95)  would 
still  hold  good,  with  the  addition  of  one  further  item  — 
authority  for  the  transfer  to  the  Department  of  Commerce 
and  Labor  of  the  records  and  letter  files  of  the  Industrial 
Commission  deposited  in  the  Library  in  pursuance  of  a 
resolution  of  Congress,  February  21,  1902,  to  await  further 
action  of  Congress. 

Respectfully  submitted 

HERBERT  PUTNAM 

Librarian  of  Congress 
The  Honorable 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE 
TWe  Honorable 

THE  SPEAKER  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES 


REPORT 

OF   THE 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  THE  LIBRARY 
BUILDING  AND  GROUNDS 


(69) 


REPORT 

OF 

THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  THE  LIBRARY 
BUILDING  AND  GROUNDS 


LIBRARY  OP  CONGRESS 
Washington,  D.  C.,  December  j,  1306 

SIR:  I  have  the  honor  to  render  my  annual  report  as 
Superintendent  of  the  Library  Building  and  Grounds  for 
the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1906,  and  to  submit  it,  as 
was  done  with  the  last  report,  for  the  reason  then  given,  in 
connection  with  the  report  of  the  Librarian. 

The  routine  of  care  and  maintenance  of  the  building  and 
grounds  was  continued  throughout  the  year  essentially  on 
the  same  plan  as  in  the  previous  years  and  with  a  similar 
organization,  although  the  labor  of  it  has  steadily  increased 
with  the  ever  widening  scope  and  activity  of  the  Library, 
which  has  continued  from  its  occupation  of  the  new  build- 
ing nine  years  ago.  For  several  years  past,  however,  any 
important  increase  in  the  working  force  or  in  the  appropria- 
tions for  this  work  has  been  avoided  by  a  judicious  applica- 
tion of  the  experience  gained  in  handling  it.  It  is  believed 
that  the  same  appropriations,  with  the  minor  changes  in  the 
force  recommended  in  the  estimates,  will  be  sufficient  for 
the  fiscal  year  1908. 

The  building  was  open  to  the  public  and  the  users  of  the 
Library  every  day  throughout  the  year  excepting  the  5th  of 
July,  the  funeral  day  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  John  Hay, 

(71) 


72         Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds 

and  excepting  the  Fourth  of  July  and  Christmas.  On 
the  other  legal  holidays  and  Sundays  the  hours  were  from  2 
to  10  p.  m.,  and  on  all  week  days  from  9  a.  m.  to  10  p.  m., 
excepting  the  Saturdays  after  12.30  p.  m.  in  July,  August, 
and  September.  So  far  as  care  taking  and  guarding  are 
concerned,  the  building  is  practically  open  day  and  evening 
the  year  round,  requiring  almost  a  double  force  of  working 
people  for  its  maintenance. 

VISITORS    TO   THE    LIBRARY    BUILDING 

The  number  of  visitors  is  shown  in  the  following  table : 


9'to  6 

6  to  10 

Maximum 

Minimum 

Daily 
average 

Days 

July 

28  592 

25  289 

2   684 

444 

1,858 

29 

32  700 

32  923 

3,  532 

455 

2,  II'' 

31 

September  
October  

33,  357 
42,  650 

31,019 
32,  532 

3,95i 
4,066 

576 
1,395 

2,146 
2,425 

30 
31 

November  

36,590 

23,  254 

21    485 

3,4i8 
4  064 

1,322 
810 

i,995 

2,  093 

30 
30 

24  029 

3,  819 

i,  193 

2,  193 

31 

43  °53 

24  745 

4,  049 

i,  315 

2,  421 

28 

March 

47,  582 

28,  333 

4,  357 

i,  125 

2,449 

31 

April  
May  
June  

51,632 
38,  048 
29,  773 

4i,  398 
32,  141 
25,  572 

5,284 
3,105 
2,610 

2,218 
1,266 
i,  in 

3,ioi 
2,264 
1,845 

30 
3i 
30 

Total 

, 

Grand  total,  811,945 
Average,  2,243;  days,  362 

MECHANICAL   EQUIPMENT 

This  remains  in  good  condition  through  constant  and 
careful  attention,  but  the  electric-generating  machinery 
is  overtaxed  and,  as  reported  last  year,  awaits  the  antici- 
pated relief  from  the  central  power  plant  authorized  for  the 
Government  buildings  on  Capitol  Hill. 


Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds         73 

FURNITURE   AND   SHELVING 

One  of  the  important  duties  of  this  office  which  does  not 
appertain  to  the  mere  business  of  care  and  maintenance — 
cleaning,  repair,  and  guarding — of  the  building,  is  the  de- 
sign and  construction  of  the  various  classes  of  the  so-called 
furniture  necessary  to  meet  the  growth  of  the  diverse  col- 
lections which  constitute  the  library  proper,  and  the 
mechanical  apparatus  for  its  effective  and  convenient  use. 
A  considerable  part  of  this  involves  special  invention  and 
economical  adaptation,  because  not  of  standard  manufacture 
procurable  in  the  market. 

Excepting  the  ordinary  desks,  tables,  chairs,  and  cer- 
tain standard  filing  cases,  the  entire  equipment  of  the  Li- 
brary under  the  general  head  of  furniture  has  necessarily 
been  specially  designed  and  devised  for  the  proper  and  per- 
manent installation  and  effective  service  of  the  collections 
to  Congress  and  the  public,  and  is  to  be  found  in  no  other 
library,  excepting  as  copied  or  adapted  from  the  Library  of 
Congress.  In  these  matters,  as  in  those  which  pertain  to 
the  Library  administration  itself,  the  Library  of  Congress 
has  had  to  be  from  the  beginning  of  its  occupation  of  the 
new  building  a  pioneer  in  the  great  development  of  the 
libraries  which  has  taken  place  in  the  meantime.  Except- 
ing the  large  and  growing  collection  of  bound  volumes  of 
newspapers,  mentioned  in  the  last  annual  report,  no  other 
library  has  or  is  likely  to  have  in  the  near  future  a  more 
efficient  and  economical  equipment  for  the  safe  storage  and 
ready  accessibility  of  its  literary  treasures  and  for  the  dis- 
play of  its  exhibits. 

But  the  work^  of  devising  and  ingenuity  is  not  yet  fin- 
ished, nor  can  it  be  entirely  so  as  long  as  the  Library  grows 
with  the  times,  which  it  must  do  indefinitely.  Annual 
appropriations  will  be  continually  needed  and  a  skilful, 
sympathetic  organization  maintained  for  the  physical  side 


74         Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds 

of  the  institution  as  well  as  for  the  more  strictly  adminis- 
trative side.  If  the  one  is  to  fulfill  its  purpose,  the  other 
must  go  hand  in  hand  with  it  and  furnish  the  indispensable 
physical  accessories  which  are  in  the  main  necessarily 
special  and  necessarily  abreast  of  the  times  in  the  mechan- 
ical world. 

The  appropriation  of  $ 40,000  for  furniture,  etc.,  was 
expended  as  follows: 

Steel  map  and  chart  cases $7,  900.  oo 

Two  additional  public  catalogue  cases  for  main  Reading 

Room 5,  544.  oo 

Part  of  a  book  stack  for  east  main  attic 4,  675.  oo 

Miscellaneous  furniture,  including  desks,   tables,   chairs, 

stands,  cases,  window  shades,  hardware,  etc 3,  361.  95 

Fitting   up  and  "repairing  furniture,  including  labor  and 

materials 2,  951.  17 

Combined  storage  shelving  and  exhibition  cases  for  Divi- 
sion of  Prints 3,  077. 80 

Steel  tray  storage  cases  for  catalogue  cards 2,  675.  40 

Label  holders,  book  supports,  and  newspaper  file  holders. .     2,  185.  oo 

Miscellaneous  card  catalogue  and  filing  cases 2,  027.  32 

Carpets,  rugs,  and  rubber  runners 2,  220.  89 

Wood,  glass,  and  wire  inclosures  and  partitions i,  092.  53 

Re-covering  and  re-upholstering  leather  furniture,  Congres- 
sional reading  rooms i,  052.  oo 

Typewriters,  remodeling,  etc 456.  25 

Adding  machine 350.  oo 

Electrical  work  for  book  stacks 183.  94 

Freight,  drayage,  and  inspection 147. 57 

Total 39,  900.  82 

As  heretofore,  some  of  the  above  articles  were  supplied 
to  the  law  branch  of  the  Library  in  the  Capitol. 

ACCOMMODATIONS    FOR    BOUND    NEWSPAPERS 

One  of  the  collections  needing  special  accommodation  in 
the  building  is  that  of  the  bound  newspapers.  These 
amount  now  to  35,000  volumes,  and  are  increasing  at  the 


Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds         75 

rate  of  about  i ,  500  volumes  annually,  a  moderate  growth 
considering  the  extent  of  publication.  It  is  a  most  valuable 
and  much  used  collection,  while  bulky  and  heavy  to  handle. 
To  properly  preserve  the  great  volumes  not  only  on  the 
shelves  but  in  handling  to  and  fro,  it  is  less  expensive  in 
money,  valuable  space,  and  time  in  using  the  volumes  to 
build  for  them  a  specially  designed  stack  for  shelving  than 
to  bind  each  volume  in  a  way  to  guard  against  wear,  tear, 
and  distortion. 

If  the  newspapers  are  to  be  preserved  at  all,  special  shelv- 
ing for  them  must  be  provided  without  delay,  or  they 
will  go  to  ruin.  As  stated  in  the  last  annual  report,  the 
larger  part  of  the  present  collection  is  now  temporarily 
shelved  in  the  cellar  of  the  Library  building.  The  place  is 
wholly  unsuitable,  but  the  only  one  now  available.  It  is  too 
hot,  damp  at  times,  dusty,  most  inconvenient  and  slow  of 
access,  and  dangerous  from  possible  leaks  in  the  steam  and 
water  pipes  of  the  mechanical  apparatus  which  abound  and 
which  the  space  was  more  especially  intended  to  accommo- 
date. The  service  to  readers  is  correspondingly  slow,  and 
the  volumes  are  not  only  unclean,  but  are  unavoidably 
subjected  to  a  rough  handling,  which  is  accelerating  the 
gradual  ruin  of  the  collection. 

Another  year  should  not  be  allowed  by  Congress  to  pass 
without  provision  for  the  proper  installation  of  these  vol- 
umes. Irreparable  loss  is  gaining  headway,  and  that 
which  may  be  repaired  is  fast  accumulating  to  entail 
expense  that  would  be  obviated  by  the  early  attention 
recommended. 

The  bulk  of  a  newspaper  volume  is  about  twelve  times 
that  of  an  ordinary  book;  the  two  can  not  be  economically 
shelved  in  the  same  stacks.  Newspaper  volumes  are  a 
class  quite  by  themselves,  and  must  be  shelved  as  such, 
especially  when  their  quantity  is  naturally  that  of  the  one 


76         Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds 

great  collection  of  the  nation.  Even  in  the  reading  they 
can  not  be  used  and  handled  as  other  books  are,  owing  to 
their  weight,  bulk,  and  size  of  page. 

Last  year  this  important  matter  was  brought  before  Con- 
gress in  an  estimate  for  a  small  appropriation  to  begin  the 
construction  of  a  stack  of  shelving  in  the  southeast  court- 
yard, adjacent  to  and  in  connection  with  one  of  the  existing 
main  book  stacks.  The  plan  was  in  pursuance  of  that  of 
the  original  design  of  the  building  as  set  forth  in  House 
Miscellaneous  Document  No.  12,  Fiftieth  Congress,  second 
session. 

After  careful  consideration  of  the  subject  and  personal 
examination  of  the  conditions  at  the  building,  the  Joint 
Committee  on  the  Library  adopted  the  following  resolution : 
' '  The  Joint  Committee  on  the  Library  deems  press- 
ingly  necessary  a  suitable  provision  for  the  accommo- 
dation of  the  files  of  newspapers  now  stored  for  the 
most  part  in  the  cellar  of  the  Library  Building,  where 
they  are  inconvenient  of  access,  subjected  to  injury  for 
lack  of  proper  shelving  and  in  transportation  to  the 
Reading  Room  for  use  by  readers,  and  suffering  deteri- 
oration from  excessive  heat  and  occasional  moisture; 
the  committee  recognizes  that  they  can  not  be  accom- 
modated in  the  main  stacks,  whose  shelving  is  designed 
for  ordinary  books  and  is  now  entirely  required  for 
these,  with  reasonable  allowance  for  accessions;  it  finds, 
upon  examination,  no  available  space  for  the  construc- 
tion of  a  special  stack  for  them  in  any  of  the  ordinary 
rooms  within  the  building,  and  unless  additional  land 
can  be  acquired  for  the  erection  of  a  separate  building 
for  them,  it  sees  no  other  course  feasible  than  the  erec- 
tion of  shelving  for  them  in  one  of  the  two  easterly 
courtyards:  Provided ',  The  plans  for  the  same  shall 
be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Joint  Committee  on 
the  Library.  In  this  connection  the  joint  committee 


Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds         77 

wishes  to  record  its  strong  opposition  to  any  encroach- 
ment on  the  free  space  of  the  two  westerly  courtyards 
of  the  Library  building. ' ' 

The  subject  went  over  with  the  following  paragraph  in 
the  legislative,  executive,  and  judicial  appropriation  bill: 

' '  For  plans. and  estimates  for  a  newspaper  stack  to  be 
procured  by  the  Joint  Committee  on  the  Library,  if  said 
committee  shall  decide  such  stack  to  be  necessary, 

$2,500." 

CARE   AND    MAINTENANCE 

From  the  appropriation  of  $32,500  for  the  year  for  "Fuel, 
lights,  and  miscellaneous  supplies,"  the  following  list  of  ex- 
penditures shows  the  necessary  distribution  of  this  fund: 
Watch  and  Housekeeping  Department: 

Ice 1988.  84 

Dry  goods 468.  oo 

Hardware 354-  *5 

Soaps 334-55 

Repairs 318.  59 

Cleaning  compounds 297.  30 

Housekeeping  supplies* ...    275.  80 

Washing  towels 208.  46 

Painting 192.  50 

Painting  supplies 184.  oo 

Toilet  supplies 172.  40 

Miscellaneous  supplies , 176.  03 

Tools  and  cleaning  appliances 62.  70 

Mosaic  floor,  repairs •      53-  °° 

Grounds  and  walks,  repairs 45-  J  7 

$4,131.49 


78         Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds 

Engineer  Department: 

Coal $20,  093.  61 

Re-boring    engine     cylinder,    repairs    to 

plumbing,  boilers,  machinery,  etc i,  666.  30 

Book  carrier 755.  oo 

Plumbing  supplies 488.  35 

Miscellaneous  supplies 406.  78 

Removing  ashes 414.  96    . 

Oil 164.  87 

Tools  and  machinery 107.  60 

Gas 41.  40 

-  $24,  138. 87 

Electrical  Department: 

Incandescent  lamps 2,  278. 50 

Miscellaneous  supplies 551.  94 

Tools  and  appliances  182.  90 

Repairs in.oo 

Intercommunicating  telephones 46. 50 

3,  170.  84 

Office: 

Telephone  service 678.  90 

Miscellaneous  supplies 138.  39 

Printing 75-21 

Postage 15.  oo 

Car  tickets " 60.  oo 

Advertising 29. 10 

Express,  freight,  and  dray  age 22.  49 

i,  019.  09 


Total $32,  460.  29 

APPROPRIATIONS   AND   EXPENDITURES 

This  office  disburses  all  appropriations  for  the  Library, 
as  well  as  those  for  the  building  and  grounds,  the  Botanic 
Garden,  and  others  coming  under  the  control  of  the  Joint 
Committee  on  the  Library. 


Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds         79 

The  several  appropriations  and  the  expenditures  there- 
from for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1906,  also  the  cor- 
responding appropriations  for  the  preceding  and  succeeding 
years,  are  presented  in  the  following  table: 


Object  of  appropriation 

Appropria- 
tion, 1905 

Appropria- 
tion, 1906 

Expendi- 
tures, 1906 

Appropria- 
tion, 1907 

library: 

Special     and     miscellaneous 
service  

a  2  090  oo 

a  2  694  94 

2  479  16 

Contingent  expenses  
Increase  of  Library  — 
Purchase  of  books 

7,  300.  oo 
90  ooo  oo 

7,  300.  oo 

7,  289.  16 

68Q    S2^   Q8 

7,  300.  oo 

Purchase  of  law  books  
Purchase  of  periodicals.  .  .  . 

3,000.00 
5,  ooo.  oo 
i  800  oo 

3.000.00 

5,  ooo.  oo 

2,998.11 

4,999-99 

3,  ooo.  oo 
5,  ooo.  oo 

Indexes,  digests,  and  compila- 

5,  840.  oo 

Total     

437,  350.  oo 

437,  !54-  94 

435,  246  80 

447,  215.  78 

Building  and  grounds: 
Care  and  maintenance  
Fuel  lights  etc 

79,  585-  °° 
32  500  oo 

80,  305.  oo 
32,  500.  oo 

79,  8"-  37 
b  32,  460  29 

80,  305.  oo 
32,  500.  oo 

40,  ooo.  oo 

40,  ooo.  oo 

b  39,  900.  82 

20,000.00 

2   5OO  OO 

Total  

152  085.  oo 

152,805.  oo 

152,  172.  48 

135,  305.  oo 

Botanic  Garden: 
Salaries 

14  393  75 

14  393.  75 

14,  367.  27 

1  6,  393.  75 

5  ooo.  oo 

5,000.  oo 

ft  5,  ooo  oo 

6,  500.  oo 

Improving  buildings  

6,  500.  oo 

7,000.00 

6,  995.  83 

7,000.00 

Total  

25,893-75 

26,  393-  75 

26,  363.  10 

29,893-75 

Repairs  of  paintings  in  Capitol  
Heating,    lighting,     and     power 

1,500.00 

1,500.00 

1,500.00 

1,500.00 

f  r             ^f 

a  aye 

2,000.00 

a  Including  balance  available  from  preceding  year, 
b  Including  unfilled  orders  and  contracts. 


8o         Superintendent  of  Building  and  Grounds 

UNEXPENDED    BALANCES 

All  amounts  for  the  fiscal  year  1904,  including  claims 
paid  on  Auditor's  certificate,  have  been  settled,  and  the  un- 
expended balances  of  the  appropriations  for  the  year  have 
been  deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  surplus  fund  of  the  Treas- 
ury, in  amounts  as  follows: 
Library: 

Salaries $i,  304.  31 

Increase  of  Library 2,  161. 31 

Contingent  expenses 2. 81 

-  $3,  468.  43 
Building  and  grounds: 

Care  and  maintenance 373.  58 

Furniture 98.  45 

Fuel,  lights,  etc 6.  23 

478.  26 
Botanic  Garden: 

Salaries .48 

Improving  garden 24.  70 

Improving  buildings 32.  30 

57-  48 


Total 4,  004.  17 

Respectfully  submitted 

BERNARD  R.  GREEN 

Superintendent  of  the  Library  Building  and  Grounds 
The  Honorable 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE 
The  Honorable 

THE  SPEAKER  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES 


APPENDICES 


Page 

Appendix     la.  Appropriations  and  expenditures  (tables) 83 

Ib.  Appropriation  acts,  1906-7 85 

II.  Report  of  the  Register  of  Copyrights 91 

III.  Copyright  bill.     Statement  of  the  Librarian  of 

Congress in 

IV.  Manuscripts:  Accessions,  1905-6 127 

V.  Division  of  Prints:  Collection  of  prints,  original 

drawings,  water-color  paintings,  and  illus- 
trated books  by  celebrated  Japanese  artists. 
Given  by  Mr.  Crosby  S.  Noyes,  Washington, 
D.  C 141 

(81) 


Appendix  la 
APPROPRIATIONS  AND  EXPENDITURES,  1905-6 


Appropria- 
tion 

Expended 

Unexpended 

SALARIES 

library  service: 

$236  660  oo 

$235  879  56 

$780  44 

IO  OOO  OO 

9  741  99 

258  01 

Special     

a  2,  694.  94 

2,479.  16 

215  78 

7  800  oo 

7  798  18 

i  82 

74  700  oo 

74  SS^  67 

163  33 

Total 

331  854  94 

i  419  38 

INCREASE  OF  LIBRARY 

Purchase  of  books  

90,  ooo.  oo 

89,  523.  98 

o  476.02 

5,  ooo.  oo 

OI 

Purchase  of  law  books    .     .        

b  3,000  oo 

2   998   11 

1.89 

Total                .               

98,000  oo 

97  522  08 

477  92 

Contingent  expenses  

7,  300.  oo 

7,  289.  16 

10.84 

Printing  and  binding  (allotment,  notap- 

185  ooo  oo 

177  220  55 

7  779  45 

Grand  total  

622,154.94 

612,467.35 

9.687.59 

a  Including  balance  of  $694.94  from  1904-5. 

&  Exclusive  of  $1,500  to  be  expended  by  the  marshal  of  the  Supreme  Court  for 
new  books  of  reference  for  that  body. 
c  Orders  outstanding  will  exhaust  this  amount. 

CONTINGENT  EXPENSES  IN  DETAIL 


Object  of  expenditure 

Amount 

$4  461  01 

i,  038.  75 

472.  85 

448  63 

360.  97 

Postage  stamps  (foreign  correspondence)  

293.85 
104.  70 

43.10 

21.40 

20  90 

16.  oo 

5.  oo 

2.00 

Total                                         

7,  289.  16 

(83) 


Appendix  Ib 

APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  THE  LIBRARY  OF  CONGRESS  AS  CONTAINED  IN 
"AN  ACT  MAKING  APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  THE  LEGISLATIVE,  EX- 
ECUTIVE, AND  JUDICIAL  EXPENSES  OF  THE  GOVERNMENT  FOR  THE 
FISCAL  YEAR  ENDING  JUNE  THIRTIETH,  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  AND 
SEVEN,  AND  FOR  OTHER  PURPOSES." 

General  administration :  For  Librarian  of  Congress,  $6,000; 
chief  assistant  librarian,  $4,000;  chief  clerk,  $2,500;  Libra- 
rian's secretary,  $1,800;  clerk  (assistant  to  chief  clerk), 
$1,000;  2  stenographers  and  typewriters,  at  $1,000  each; 
messenger,  $840;  in  all,  $18,140. 

Mail:  For  assistant  in  charge,  $1,500;  assistant,  $900; 
messenger  boy,  $360;  in  all,  $2,760. 

Packing  and  stamping:  For  2  attendants,  at  $720  each, 
$1,440. 

Order  (purchasing) :  For  chief  of  division,  $2,500;  assist- 
ant, $1,500;  assistant,  $1,200;  3  assistants,  at  $900  each;  2 
assistants,  at  $720  each;  2  assistants,  at  $600  each;  assist- 
ant, $520;  and  2  messenger  boys,  at  $360  each;  in  all, 
$11,780. 

Catalogue  and  shelf:  For  chief  of  division,  $3,000;  chief 
classifier,  $2,000;  4  assistants,  at  $1,800  each;  7  assistants, 
at  $1,500  each;  6  assistants,  at  $1,400  each;  12  assistants, 
at  $i,;oo  each;  6  assistants,  at  $1,000  each;  14  assistants,  at 
$900  each;  4  assistants,  at  $800  each;  13  assistants,  at  $720 
each;  3  assistants,  at  $600  each;  10  assistants,  at  $540  each; 
4  assistants,  at  $480  each;  6  messengers,  at  $360  each;  in 
all,  $87,940. 

Binding:  For  assistant  in  charge,  $1,200;  assistant,  $900; 
messenger  boy,  $360;  in  all,  $2,460. 

Bibliography:  For  chief  of  division,  $3,000;  assistant, 
$1,200;  2  assistants,  at  $900  each;  assistant,  $720;  stenog- 
rapher and  typewriter,  $900;  and  i  messenger  boy,  $360; 
in  all,  $7,980. 

(85) 


86  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

Reading  rooms  (including  evening  service)  and  special 
collections:  For  superintendent  of  reading  room,  $3,000;  2 
assistants,  at  $1,500  each;  4  assistants,  at  $1,200  each;  i 
assistant  (reading  room  for  the  blind),  $1,200;  5  assistants, 
at  $900  each;  10  assistants,  at  $720  each;  i  attendant,  Sen- 
ate reading  room,  $900;  i  attendant,  Representatives'  read- 
ing room,  $900;  i  attendant,  Representatives'  reading  room, 
$720;  2  attendants,  cloakrooms,  at  $720  each;  i  attendant, 
Toner  Library,  $900;  i  attendant,  Washingtonian  Library, 
$900;  4  messenger  boys,  at  $360  each;  2  watchmen,  at  $720 
each;  evening  service:  5  assistants,  at  $900  each;  15  assist- 
ants, at  $720  each;  in  all,  $47,640. 

Periodical  (including  evening  service)  :  For  chief  of  divi- 
sion, $2,000;  chief  assistant,  $'1,500;  2  assistants,  at  $900 
each;  stenographer  and  typewriter,  $900;  3  assistants,  at 
$720  each;  2  messenger  boys,  at  $360  each;  for  arrears  of 
sorting  and  collating  and  to  enable  periodical  reading  room 
to  be  open  in  the  evenings,  2  assistants,  at  $720  each;  in  all, 
$10,520. 

Documents:  For  chief  of  division,  $3,000;  assistant  ,$1,200; 
stenographer  and  typewriter,  $900;  assistant,  $720;  messen- 
ger, $360;  in  all,  $6,180. 

Manuscript:  For  chief  of  division,  $3,000;  chief  assistant, 
$1,500;  assistant,  $900;  messenger  boy,  $360;  in  all,  $5,760. 

Maps  and  charts:  For  chief  of  division,  $3,000;  assistant, 
$1,200;  2  assistants,  at  $900  each;  assistant,  $720;  messen- 
ger boy,  $360;  in  all,  $7,080. 

Music:  For  chief  of  division,  $2,000;  assistant,  $1,400; 
assistant,  $  1,000;  2  assistants,  at  $720  each;  messenger  boy, 
$360;  in  all,  $6,200. 

Prints:  For  chief  of  division,  $2,000;  assistant,  $1,200;  2 
assistants,  at  $900  each;  messenger,  $360;  in  all,  $5,360. 

Smithsonian  deposit:  For  custodian,  $1,500;  assistant, 
$1,200;  messenger,  $720;  messenger  boy,  $360;  in  all, 


Congressional  Reference  Library:  For  custodian,  $1,500; 
assivStant,  $1,200;  assistant,  $900;  assistant,  $720;  2  mes- 
senger boys,  at  $360  each;  in  all,  $5,040. 


Appropriation  Acts  1906-7  87 

Law  Library:  For  custodian,  $2,500;  2  assistants,  at 
$1,400  each;  messenger,  $900;  assistant  for  evening  service, 
$1,500;  in  all,  $7,700. 

COPYRIGHT  OFFICE,  under  the  direction  of  the  Librarian 
of  Congress:  Register  of  copyrights,  $3,000;  chief  clerk 
and  chief  of  bookkeeping  division,  $2,000;  chief  of  appli- 
cation division,  $2,000;  2  clerks,  at  $i, 800  each;  4  clerks, 
at  $1,600  each;  8  clerks,  at  $1,400  each;  10  clerks,  at 
$1,200  each;  8  clerks,  at  $1,000  each;  13  clerks,  at  $900 
each;  2  clerks,  at  $800  each;  10  clerks,  at  $720  each;  2 
clerks,  at  $600  each;  2  messenger  boys,  at  $360  each. 
Arrears,  special  service:  3  clerks,  at  $1,200  each;  porter, 
$720;  messenger  boy,  $360;  in  all,  $75,300. 

DISTRIBUTION  OF  CARD  INDEXES:  For  service  in  con- 
nection with  the  distribution  of  card  indexes  and  other 
publications  of  the  Library,  including  not  exceeding  $500 
for  freight  charges,  expressage,  and  traveling  expenses 
connected  with  such  distribution,  $10,800. 

TEMPORARY  SERVICES:  For  special,  temporary,  and  mis- 
cellaneous service,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Librarian,  to 
continue  available  until  expended,  $2,000. 

SUNDAY  OPENING:  To  enable  the  Library  of  Congress 
to  be  kept  open  for  reference  use  from  2  until  10  o'clock 
post  meridian  on  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  within  the 
discretion  of  the  Librarian,  including  the  extra  services  of 
employees  and  the  services  of  additional  employees  under 
the  Librarian,  $10,000,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be 
necessary. 

INCREASE  OF  LIBRARY  OF  CONGRESS:  For  purchase  of 
books  for  the  Library,  and  for  freight,  commissions,  and 
traveling  expenses  incidental  to  the  acquisition  of  books  by 
purchase,  gift,  or  exchange,  $90,000; 

For  purchase  of  books  and  for  periodicals  for  the  law 
library,  under  the  direction  of  the  Chief  Justice,  $3,000; 

For  purchase  of  new  books  of  reference  for  the  Supreme 
Court,  to  be  a  part  of  the  Library  of  Congress  and  purchased 
by  the  marshal  of  the  Supreme  Court,  under  the  direction 
of  the  Chief  Justice,  $1,500; 
WB  1906 7 


88  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

For  purchase  of  miscellaneous  periodicals  and  newspapers, 
including  payment  in  advance  for  subscriptions  to  the  same, 
f  5,000; 

In  all,  $99,500. 

For  miscellaneous  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Library, 
stationery,  supplies,  and  all  stock  and  materials  directly 
purchased,  miscellaneous  traveling  expenses,  postage,  trans- 
portation, and  all  incidental  expenses  connected  with  the 
administration  of  the  Library  and  the  Copyright  Office, 
which  sum  shall  be  so  apportioned  as  to  prevent  a  deficiency 
therein,  $7,300. 

CUSTODY,  CARE,  AND  MAINTENANCE  OF  LIBRARY  BUILD- 
ING AND  GROUNDS:  For  superintendent  of  the  Library  build- 
ing and  grounds,  $5,000;  chief  clerk,  $2,000;  clerk,  $1,600; 
clerk,  $1,400;  clerk,  $1,000;  i  messenger;  i  assistant  messen- 
ger; 2  telephone  operators,  at  $600  each;  captain  of  watch, 
$1,400;  lieutenant  of  watch,  $  i,  ooo;  1 8  watchmen;  carpen- 
ter, $900;  painter,  $900;  foreman  of  laborers,  $900;  14  labor- 
ers, at  $480  each;  2  attendants  in  ladies'  room,  at  $480  each; 
2  check  boys,  at  $360  each;  mistress  of  charwomen,  $425; 
assistant  mistress  of  charwomen,  $300;  45  charwomen;  chief 
engineer,  $1,500:  i  assistant  engineer,  $1,200;  3  assistant 
engineers,  at$i,ooo  each;  electrician,  $1,500;  assistant  elec- 
trician, $i,  ooo;  machinist,  $  i,  ooo;  machinist,  $900;  2  wire- 
men,  at  $900  each;  plumber,  $900;  3  elevator  conductors, 
at  $7 20  each;  9  firemen;  6  skilled  laborers,  at  $720  each;  in 
all,  $77,505- 

For  extra  services  of  employees  and  additional  employees 
under  the  superintendent  of  Library  building  and  grounds  to 
provide  for  the  opening  of  the  Library  building  from  2  until 
10  o'clock  post  meridian  on  Sundays  and  legal  holidays, 
$2,800. 

For  fuel,  lights,  repairs,  and  miscellaneous  supplies,  elec- 
tric and  steam  apparatus,  city  directory,  stationery,  and  all 
incidental  expenses  in  connection  with  the  custody,  care, 
and  maintenance  of  said  building  and  grounds,  $32,500. 

For  furniture,  including  partitions,  screens,  shelving,  and 
electrical  work  pertaining  thereto,  $20,000. 


Appropriation  Acts  1906-7  89 

For  plans  and  estimates  for  a  newspaper  stack  to  be  pro- 
cured by  the  Joint  Committee  on  the  Library  if  said  com- 
mittee shall  decide  such  stack  to  be  necessary,  $2,500. 

Provisions  in  "An  Act  Making  appropriations  for  sundry 
civil  expenses  of  the  Government  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  seven,  and  for  other 
purposes:" 

To  SYSTEMATIZE  THE  PREPARATION  OP  LAW  INDEXES 
AND  SO  FORTH  AND  TO  PROVIDE  TRAINED  LAW  CLERKS 

THEREFOR:  To  enable  the  Librarian  of  Congress  to  direct 
the  Law  Librarian  to  prepare  a  new  index  to  the  Statutes 
at  Large,  in  accordance  with  a  plan  previously  approved  by 
the  Judiciary  Committees  of  both  Houses  of  Congress,  and 
to  prepare  such  other  indexes,  digests  and  compilations  of 
law  as  may  be  required  by  Congress  and  other  official  use, 
five  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty  dollars  to  pay  for 
five  additional  assistants  in  the  Law  Library:  One  at  eight- 
een hundred  dollars,  one  at  twelve  hundred  dollars,  one  at 
nine  hundred  dollars  and  two  at  seven  hundred  and  twenty 
dollars  each,  and  for  the  Law  Librarian  five  hundred  dol- 
lars, the  said  sum  to  be  paid  to  the  Law  Librarian,  notwith- 
standing seventeen  hundred  and  sixty-five  of  the  Revised 
Statutes. 


Appendix  II 

REPORT  OF  THE  REGISTER  OF  COPYRIGHTS  FOR  THE 
FISCAL  YEAR  1905-6 

Washington,  D.  C.,  July  5,  1906 

SIR:  The  copyright  business  and  the  work  of  the  Copy- 
right Office  for  the  fiscal  year  from  July  i,  1905,  to  June  30, 
1906,  inclusive,  are  summarized  as  follows: 

RECEIPTS 

The  gross  receipts  during  the  year  were  $82,610.92.  A  Fees>etc- 
balance  of  $2,116.93,  representing  trust  funds  and  unfin- 
ished business,  was  on  hand  July  i,  1905,  making  a  total  of 
$84,727.85  to  be  accounted  for.  Of  this  amount  the  sum 
of  $2,351 .73  was  refunded,  having  been  sent  to  the  Copyright 
Office  as  excess  fees  or  as  fees  for  articles  not  registrable, 
leaving  a  net  balance  of  $82,376.12.  The  balance  carried 
over  July  i,  1906,  was  $2,178.12  (representing  trust  funds, 
$1,811.16,  and  total  unfinished  business  since  July  i,  1897 — 
nine  years — $366.96),  leaving  for  fees  applied  during  the 
fiscal  year  1905-6,  $80,198. 

EXPENDITURES 

The  appropriation  made  by  Congress  for  salaries  in  the  Salaries 
Copyright  Office  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1906, 
was  $74,700.  Of  this  amount  the  total  expenditure  for  sal- 
aries was  $74,536.67,  or  $5,661,33  less  than  the  net  amount 
of  fees  earned  and  paid  into  the  Treasury  during  the  corre- 
sponding year.  The  expenditure  for  supplies,  except  fur- 
niture, including  stationery  and  other  articles,  and  postage 
on  foreign  mail  matter,  etc.,  was  $1,055.89. 

The  copyright  fees  received  and  paid  into  the  United  States 
Treasury  during  the  last  nine  years,  from  July  i,  1897,  to 
June  30,  1906,  amount  to  $607,533.50,  while  the  sum  used 
of  the  appropriations  for  salaries  during  that  period  was 


92  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

$502,124.89,  leaving  an  excess  of  fees  over  appropriations 
used  for  service  for  the  nine  years  of  $105,408.61. 

Copyright  de-  During  these  same  nine  years  the  articles  received  as 
deposits  amount  to  the  grand  total  of  1,487,281  pieces, 
including  two  copies  each  of  81,203  books  and  pamphlets; 
40,847  leaflets;  63,779  periodical  contributions;  7,596  dra- 
matic compositions;  162,316  separate  numbers  of  periodicals; 
180,491  musical  compositions;  14,284  maps  and  charts; 
53,710  engravings,  cuts,  and  prints;  16,283  chromes  and 
lithographs;  110,747  photographs,  and  389  miscellaneous 
articles.  In  addition  to  the  above,  23,991  photographs 
were  deposited  to  identify  the  same  number  of  original  works 
of  art — paintings,  drawings,  and  statuary — of  which  the 
descriptions  had  been  filed.  Many  of  these  articles  are  of 
considerable  value. 

COPYRIGHT    ENTRIES    AND    FEES 

Registrations  The  entries  of  titles  for  the  fiscal  year  numbered  117,704. 
Of  these  entries  108,161  were  titles  of  the  productions  of 
citizens  or  residents  of  the  United  States,  and  9,543  were 
titles  of  works  by  foreigners.  The  fees  for  these  entries 
were:  United  States,  $54,080.50;  foreign,  $9,543,  or  a  total 
of  $63,623.50. 

Certificates^.  Of  the  foreign  entries  1,992  were  with  certificates,  and  of 
the  United  States  entries  27,804,  or  a  total  of  29,796  certifi- 
cates, at  fees  amounting  to  $14,898.  In  addition,  1,843 
copies  of  record  were  furnished  for  $921.50  in  fees;  assign- 
ments to  the  number  of  669  were  recorded  and  certified,  at 
a  charge  of  $738,  and  search  fees  charged  to  the  amount  of 
$17.  The  total  copyright  fees  for  the  year  amounted  to 
$80,198.  The  details  of  the  Copyright  Office  business*  and 
applied  fees  are  set  out  in  Exhibits  A,  B,  and  C. 

The  number  of  entries  in  each  class  from  July  i,  1905, 
to  June  30,  1906,  as  compared  with  the  number  of  entries 
made  in  the  previous  year,  is  shown  in  Exhibit  F. 


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COPYRIGHT    DEPOSITS 

The  various  articles  deposited  in  compliance  with  the  Articles 
copy right  law,  which  have  been  receipted  for,  stamped,  tU 
credited,  indexed,  and  catalogued  during  the  fiscal  year 
amount  to  211,138.  This  is  a  gain  of  3,714  over  the  pre- 
ceding fiscal  year.  The  number  of  these  articles  in  each 
class  for  the  nine  fiscal  years  is  shown  in  Exhibit  G,  and 
indicates  a  grand  total  of  1,487,281  articles  received  in  the 
nine  years. 

COPYRIGHT    CATALOGUE   AND   INDEX 

The  usual  four  quarterly  volumes  of  the  Catalogue  of    catalogue 
Title  Entries  were  printed,  containing  5,319  pages. 

The  title  index  cards  for  the  fiscal  year  number  167,292.  index  cards 
After  having  been  first  used  as  the  copy  for  the  printed 
catalogue  required  to  be  produced  weekly  by  the  act  of  Con- 
gress of  March  3,  1891  (sist  Cong.,  2d  sess.,  ch.  565),  these 
cards  are  added  to  the  permanent  card  indexes  of  the  copy- 
right entries,  which  now  number  a  total  of  over  1,380,000 
cards. 

Under  the  provisions  of  the  act  making  appropriations  Copyright  cata- 
for  the  sundry  civil  expenses  of  the  Government  for  the  °& 
fiscal  year  1907,  the  printing  and  distribution  of  the  Cata- 
logue of  Copyright  Entries  have  been  transferred  from  the 
Treasury  Department  to  the  Library  of  Congress.  This 
gives  opportunity  for  the  introduction  of  certain  changes  in 
the  form  of  the  Catalogue  which  it  is  hoped  will  make  it  a 
more  useful  publication  and  secure  a  wider  distribution  of 
it.  As  heretofore  published,  the  four  quarterly  volumes  for 
the  year  have  each  contained  all  the  entries  for  the  quarter 
arranged  by  subjects.  Beginning  with  July  i,  1906,  it  is 
proposed  to  issue  four  volumes  each  year  divided  in  accord- 
ance with  the  subject-matter  of  the  articles  registered. 
Thus  Part  i  of  the  Catalogue  will  contain  the  titles  of  all 
copyright  books,  dramatic  compositions,  and  maps  and 
charts;  Part  2  the  titles  of  all  periodicals  registered  for 
copyright  protection;  Part  3  the  titles  of  all  musical  com- 
positions so  registered,  and  Part  4  will  contain  all  registra- 
tions under  other  designations  provided  by  the  copyright 


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law,  including  works  of  the  fine  arts,  engravings,  chromos 
and  lithographs,  and  photographs. 

Parti,  Books  jt  js  proposed  in  Part  I  of  the  Catalogue  to  make  two 
groups  of  the  book  titles,  one  to  contain  the  titles  of  all 
books  for  which  the  Library  of  Congress  supplies  printed 
cards,  and  the  second  to  contain  the  titles  of  pamphlets, 
leaflets,  and  all  other  publications  registered  under  the  legal 
designation  ' '  book. "  It  is  proposed  also  to  print  the  titles 
included  in  the  first  group  to  correspond  with  the  titles  as 
printed  in  the  Library  of  Congress  cards,  and  to  use  for 
that  purpose  the  linotype  slugs  now  used  in  printing  such 
cards  to  save  the  resetting  of  the  titles.  While  the  first 
volumes  under  the  new  arrangement  will  only  cover  the 
half  year  from  July  to  December,  1906,  it  is  intended  there- 
after to  make  annual  volumes  to  correspond  with  the  calen- 
dar year,  and  to  cumulate  the  weekly  indices,  so  far  as  may 
be  deemed  permissible,  and  supply  each  volume  with  an 
index  for  the  entire  year. 

Volumes  and  This  division  of  the  Catalogue  according  to  subject-matter 
will  permit  binding  up  the  volumes  by  subjects  and  will  also 
make  it  possible  to  subscribe  for  one  or  more  of  the  parts 
as  well  as  for  the  complete  Catalogue  as  heretofore,  the 
subscription  prices  for  the  several  parts  to  be  proportioned 
to  the  amount  of  matter  contained  in  each. 

CIRCULARS    AND    BULLETINS 

Annual  state-  The  customary  "Annual  Statement  "  was  issued  on  Janu- 
ary 4,  1906,  setting  out  in  condensed  form  the  statistics  of 

Circulars  the  copyright  business  for  the  calendar  year  1905.  A  cir- 
cular containing  the  President's  Proclamation  of  the  estab- 
lishment of  copyright  relations  with  Norway  was  printed 
August  21,  and  new  revised  editions  were  printed  of  the 

Bulletins  Copyright  Office  Bulletins  Nos.  i  and  2  containing  the  copy- 
right laws  and  the  directions  for  making  application  for 
copyright  registration. 

In  connection  with  the  effort  to  secure  a  revision  of  the 
copyright  laws  various  circulars  were  printed,  together  with 
preliminary  drafts  of  the  text  of  the  proposed  copyright  bill, 
and  some  explanatory  matter.  The  full  titles  of  these  Drafts, 
etc.,  are  as  follows: 


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i.  The  Copyright  Law  of  the  United  States  of  America,  in  force    New 

' 


2.  Directions  for  the  registration  of  copyrights  under  the  laws  of 
the  United  States.  6th  edition.  50  pp.  8°.  1906. 

Memorandum  Draft  of  a  bill  to  amend  and  consolidate  tin-  arts 
respecting  copyright.  (Copyright  Office  Bulletin  No.  [o,  October  23, 
1905.)  74  pp.  4°. 

Same.  (Copyright  Office  Bulletin  No.  10,  second  print,  March  2 
1906.)  57  pp.  4°. 

Same.     (Proof  copy,  March  30,  1906.)     32pp.     4°. 

Same.      (Proof  copy,  May  19,  1906.)     26pp.     4°. 

Same.  A  bill  to  amend  and  consolidate  the  acts  respecting  copy- 
right. Introduced  Thursday,  May  31,  1906.  5gth  Congress,  ist  ses- 
sion, Senate  bill  6330,  H.  R.  bill  19853.  (Library  of  Congress  print 
of  final  draft.  )  25  pp.  4°. 

Copyright  bill.  Memorandum.  A.  Some  leading  features;  B. 
Provisions  of  existing  law  which  are  omitted  from  the  bill.  6  pp.  4°. 
1906. 

Copyright  bill  (S.  6330;  H.  R.  19853).  Statement  by  the  Librarian 
of  Congress  to  the  Committee  [on  Patents]  at  the  first  public  hearing, 
June  6,  1906.  12  pp.  4°.  1906. 

SUMMARY 

Balance  on  hand  July  i,  1905  .................  $2,  116.93 

Gross  receipts  July  i,  1905,  to  June  30,  1906  ...  82,  610.  92 


editions 


-^  ew  Bulletins: 
'  ° 


Recapitulation: 
Receipts 


Total  to  be  accounted  for 84,  727.  85 

Refunded 2,  35 1 .  73 


,  376.  12 


Balance  to  be  accounted  for  ...................... 

Applied  as  fees  earned  .......................   80,  198.  oo 

Balance  carried  over  to  July  I,  1906: 

Trust  funds  ...................  $i,  811.  16 

Unfinished  business,  July  i,  1897, 

to  June  30,  1906,  nine  years  .  .         366.  96 

2,  170.  12 

-       82.  376.  12 


Total  fees  earned  and  paid  into  the  Treasury  during  the 

nine  fiscal  years  from  July  i,  1897,  to  June  30,  1906  ....   607,  533.  50 
Total  unfinished  business  for  the  nine  years 366.  96 


ENTRIES 


Number  of  entries  of  United  States  productions  recorded.  . . .    108,  161     Registrations, 
Number  of  entries  of  foreign  productions  recorded 9,  543  etc" 


Total  number  of  titles  recorded 117,  704 


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Certificates  Number  of  certificates  of  United  States  entries 27,  804 

Number  of  certificates  of  foreign  entries I,  992 

Total  number  of  certificates 29,  796 

Number  of  certified  copies  of  record -. I,  843 

Number  of  assignments  recorded 669 

FKKS 

Applied  fees      pees  for  entry  of  titles,  United  States  produc- 
tions, at  50  cents  each $54,  080.  50 

Fees  for  entry  of  titles  of  foreign  productions, 

at  $i  each 9,  543.  oo 

Total  fees  for  titles  recorded $63,  623.  50 

Fees  for  certificates,  United  States  entries,  at 

50  cents  each 13,  902.  oo 

Fees   for    certificates,    foreign    entries,    at   50 

cents  each 996.  oo 

Total  fees  for  certificates 14,  898 .00 

FYes  for  certified  copies  of  record,  at  50  cents  each 921.  50 

Fees  for  recording  assignments 738.  oo 

Searches  made  and  charged  for  at  the  rate  of  50  cents  for 

each  hour  of  time  consumed 17.  oo 

Total  fees $80,  198.  oo 

CONDITION    OF    COPYRIGHT    OFFICE    WORK 

(«)    Current  work 

state  of  work  The  current  work  of  the  Office  is  kept  well  up  to  date, 
considering  the  fluctuations  in  the  copyright  business. 
During  the  3'ear  the  title  registrations  have  varied  from  138 
in  one  day  to  2,960  on  another  day. 

Accounts  j±t  this  date  (July  5,  1906)  the  remittances  received  up 

to  the  third  mail  of  the  day  have  been  recorded  and 
acknowledged;  the  account  books  of  the  bookkeeping  divi- 
sion are  written  up  and  posted  to  June  30,  and  the  accounts 
rendered  to  the  Treasury  Department  are  settled  up  to  and 
including  the  month  of  June,  while  earned  fees  to  June  30, 
inclusive,  have  been  paid  into  the  Treasury. 

All  copyright  applications  received  up  to  and  including 
June  30  have  been  passed  upon  and  refunds  made.  The 
total  unfinished  business  for  the  full  nine  years  from  July  i, 
1*97,  to  June  30,  1906,  amounts  to  but  $366.96. 


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At  the  close  of  business  on  July  5,  1906,  notwithstanding    Titles  recorded 
the  intervening  Sunday  and  holiday  (July  4),  the  titles  for 
record  in  all  classes  had  been  dated,  classified,   and  num- 
bered to   July   3,   and  all  titles   had  been   indexed   up  to 
June  30. 

The  articles  of  all  classes  deposited  had  been  stamped,    Deposits 
catalogued,   and   credited    up  to  the  receipts  of  June   30, 
inclusive,  except  Class  A,  books  II  and  III,  to  June  23,  'and 
Class  D,  dramatic  compositions,  to  June  25. 

The  Catalogue  of  Copyright  Entries  had  been  brought 
forward  to  No.  782  of  June  28,  1906. 

The  certificate  and  noncertificate  entries  had  been  re- 
corded to  June  30,  inclusive,  and  certificates  and  notices  of 
entry  to  the  same  date  made,  revised,  and  mailed. 

(£)  Copyright  business  prior  to  July  i,  1897 

Congress,  in  the  appropriation  act  for  the  fiscal  year  just  Arrears 
closed,  continued  the  special  force  for  work  on  the  arrears 
of  Copyright  Office  business  prior  to  July  i,  1897.  The 
examination  and  arrangement  of  the  mass  of  deposits  has 
been  continued,  and  9,372  credited  musical  compositions 
(previously  arranged  by  years  of  entry)  have  been  given  a 
more  exact  arrangement  and  convenient^  shelved  for  future 
reference. 

Credited  articles  to  the  number  of  50,045  (including  1,328 
pamphlets,  26,636  periodicals,  13,261  musical  compositions, 
2,710  cuts  and  prints,  and  3,064  photographs),  have  been 
filed  away  under  year  and  number.  In  the  work  of  credit- 
ing deposits  27,928  articles  were  handled,  and  25,61  1  articles 
(including  12,495  musical  compositions,  1,200  maps,  2,698 
cuts  and  prints,  and  5,352  photographs),  were  credited  and 
filed,  those  desired  by  the  Library  being  forwarded  to  the 
shelves  for  use.  In  the  case  of  2,317  articles,  identification 
and  credit  could  not  be  made,  and  they  were  accordingly 
indexed  and  (except  those  desired  by  the  Library)  filed  for 
convenient  reference. 

Titles  to  the  number  of  31,497,  entered  prior  to  July  i, 
1897,  but  heretofore  filed  only  in  rough  bundles,  have  been 
collated,  arranged,  and  permanently  filed. 


Articles 
Ul 


98  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 


Catalogue    of     In  pursuance  of  the  plan   to   secure    a   complete    index 

ram  at ' 
sit  ions 


dramatic  combo-  p~          <i     1  •  •    •  •  •      i 

tor  all  dramatic  compositions  registered,  17,840  index  cards 


were  made  during  the  fiscal  year.  The  cards  thus  made 
complete  the  catalogue  and  index  for  the  entries  for  dra- 
matic compositions  from  July  10,  1870  (when  the  first  reg- 
istrations were  made  in  the  Library  of  Congress)  to  1897, 
and  when  added  to  the  current  cards  for  the  registrations  of 
dramatic  compositions  made  since  1897  will  secure  a  cata- 
logue of  the  titles  of  all  dramas  recorded  during  the  period 
from  1870  to  date.  This  catalogue  it  is  hoped  present!)'  to 
print  as  a  Copyright  Office  Bulletin. 

A  similar  plan  in  regard  to  registrations  of  photographs 
is  under  way,  and  16,220  cards  have  been  made  during  the 
year  for  such  entries  from  1870  on. 

Uncleared  deposits 

rncieared  de-  Of  the  uncleared  deposits  accumulated  in  the  Copyright 
Office  prior  to  July  i,  1897,  there  still  remain  a  total  of 
118,734  articles.  Of  these  there  are  4,207  articles  which, 
after  careful  examination,  it  has  not  been  possible  to  credit 
upon  any  entries  made  prior  to  the  date  of  their  receipt. 
The  remaining  114,527  articles  have  been  arranged  by  sub- 
jects, and  34,444  pamphlets  and  leaflets,  16,091  periodical 
numbers,  44,087  pieces  of  music,  7,190  insurance  maps, 
7,384  engravings,  cuts,  and  prints,  2,362  chromos,  and  2,969 
posters,  still-  remain  to  be  given  further  examination  in  the 
hope  of  discovering  corresponding  entries  of  titles  upon 
which  to  credit  them. 

COPYRIGHT  LEGISLATION  AND  INTERNATIONAL  COPYRIGHT 
RELATIONS 

/.    I'roposcd 


new 


During  the  fiscal  year  covered  by  this  report  important 
action  has  been  taken  in  the  direction  of  a  revision  of  the 
copyright  laws.  Acting  upon  the  suggestion  of  the  chair- 
man of  the  Senate  Committee  on  Patents,  a  series  of  con- 
ferences was  called  by  the  Librarian  of  Congress  for  the 
purpose  of  drafting  a  new  copyright  act.  The  first  was 
held  in  New  York  City,  near  the  end  of  the  previous  fiscal 


Register  of  Copyrights  99 

year,  May  3i-June  2,  1905;  the  second,  also  in  New  York, 
on  November  1-4,   1905;  and  the  third,  in  the  Library  of 
Congress,  on  March  13-16,  1906.     Following  the  discussions    senate  bm  ««. 
in  these  conferences,  a  bill  was  drafted  and  introduced  into  6^:  /A 
Congress  on  the  3ist  of  May,    1906,   and  referred  to  the 
committees  on  Patents  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives.    A  first  hearing  on  this  bill  was  held  in  the 
Library  of  Congress  before  the  two  committees  on  patents, 
conjointly,  on  June  6,  7,  8,  and  9,  1906,  and  it  is  expected 
that  the  bill  will  be  given  further  consideration  during  the 
next  session  of  Congress.     With  this  in  view  I  have  pre- 
pared an  edition  of  the  full  official  text  of  the  bill  annotated    Supplement  to 
by   references  to  all  former   copyright  legislation   of  t 
United  States  (published  as  Copyright  bulletin  no.  12). 

During  the  fiscal  year,  in  the  first  session  of  the  Fifty- 
ninth  Congress,  a  bill  amending  section  4956  of  the  Revised 
Statutes,  relating  to  copyrights,  was  introduced  in  the  House 
of  Representatives  on  December  4,  1905,  and  printed  as  H.  R. 
bill  no.  90.  This  was  a  second  presentation  of  H.  R.  bill  no. 

House bill no.  90 

13355  °f the  Fifty-eighth  Congress,  second  session,  originally 
introduced  on  March  2,  1904,  and  passed  by  the  House  of 
Representatives  on  April  26,  1904.  The  House  act  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Senate  on  December  6,  1904,  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Patents,  and  reported  from  that  committee 
on  February  15,  1905,  with  a  recommendation  that  it  be 
passed.  It  was  then  ordered  to  be  printed.  But  on  March 
3,  1905,  when  it  was  called,  as  being  next  in  order,  it  was 
voted  to  go  over.  This  bill  provides  that  in  the  case  of 
books  copyrighted,  an  affidavit  shall  be  filed  that  such  books 
have  been  type  set  within  the  limits  of  the  United  States 
as  required  by  the  Act  of  March  3,  1891. 

On  January  15,  1906,  a  bill  to  amend  title  60,  chapter  3, 
of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  States,  relating  to  n0m  IJ943 
copyrights,  was  introduced  into  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives by  Mr.  Bennet,  of  New  York,  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Patents,  and  ordered  to  be  printed  as  bill  H.  R. 
no.  11943.  This  bill  provides  as  follows: 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  section 
forty-nine  hundred  and  sixty-six  of  ^the  Revised  Statutes  be,  and 


ioo  Report  of  tJic  Librarian  of  Congress 

the  same  is  hereby,  amended  so  as  to  add  at  the  end  of  said 
section  the  following: 

"Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the 

Rot  tine;     inns-  .  .    . 

ical  works  renting  of  religious  or  secular  works,  such  as  oratorios,  cantatas, 

masses,  or  octavo  choruses  from  any  person,  musical  library,  or 
society,  nor  to  prevent  any  person  or  society  from  obtaining  cop- 
ies of  any  such  \vork  from  any  other  person,  society,  or  musical 
library  owning  the  same." 

Hearings  on  this  bill  were  held  before  the  Committee  on 
Patents  of  the  House  of  Representatives  on  May  2  and  3, 
1906,  and  the  proceedings  printed/'  The  bill  was  reported 
from  the  House  Committee  with  amendments  on  June  19, 
1906,  the  amended  bill  being  printed  on  the  same  day,  read- 
ing as  follows: 

mu  reported  as  T>c  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 

amended  I 'ailed  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  section 

forty-nine  hundred  and  sixty-six  of  the  Revised  Statutes  as 
amended  by  the  act  of  January  sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-seven,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  further  amended  by 
adding  at  the  end  thereof  the  following: 

"Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the 
performance  of  religious  or  secular  works,  such  as  oratorios,  can- 
tatas, masses,  or  octavo  choruses  by  public  schools,  church 
choirs,  or  vocal  societies  rented  or  borrowed  from  some  other  pub- 
lic school,  church  choir,  or  vocal  society,  provided  the  perform- 
ance is  given  for  charitable  or  educational  purposes,  and  not  for 
profit." 

The  House  of  Representatives  reported  this  bill  on  June 
19,  1906  (59th  Cong.,  ist  sess.,  Report  no.  4955). 

Repm-t  of  hear-      ""Arguments  before  the  Committee  on   Patents  of  the  House  of 

'bill  no  "a  H°HSe  RePresentatives  on  H-  R-  Ir943.  to  amend  title  60,  chapter  3,  of  the 
Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  vStates  relating  to  copyrights,  May  2-3, 
1906."  2  parts,  25  pp.,  23  pp.,  8vo.,  Washington,  Government  Print- 
ing Office,  1906. 

NOTE. — A  letter  from  Herman  Fromme,  counsel  for  Fred  N.  Innis, 
Director  of  Musical  Festivities  Throughout  the  United  States,  and 
others,  New  York,  was  printed  in  the  report  of  the  hearings  on  the 
bill  to  amend  the  patent  laws:  "Arguments  before  the  Committee  on 
Patents  of  the  House  of  Representatives  on  H.  R.  bill  no.  18851,  May 
17,  1906,"  pp.  8-10. 


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//.    Copyright  treaty 

During  the  fiscal  year  the  first  treaty  of  the  United  States 
dealing  exclusively  with  copyright  was  negotiated  with 
Japan  and  ratified  by  the  Senate  on  February  28,  1906." 
This  treat}^  provides  that  the  citizens  or  subjects  of  each  of 
these  countries  shall  enjoy  in  the  dominions  of  the  other  the 
protection  of  copyright  for  works  of  literature  and  art, 
including  photographs,  on  the  same  basis  on  which  pro- 
tection is  granted  to  the  citizens  or  subjects  of  the  other 
country.  It  is  specially  provided,  however,  that  this  pro- 
tection shall  not  include  the  exclusive  right  of  translation. 
The  full  text  of  the  treaty,  together  with  the  laws  of  Japan 
in  force,  the  earlier  Japanese  laws,  and  a  bibliographical 
list  of  all  the  copyright  laws  of  that  country,  has  been  pub- 
lished by  the  Copyright  Office  as  bulletin  no.  u.6 

Respectfully  submitted 

THORVALD  SOLBERG 

Register  of  Copyrights 

HERBERT  PUTNAM 

Librarian  of  Congress 

a  An  earlier  treaty  between  the  United  States  and  China  for  the 
extension  of  commercial  relations  between  them  (January  13,  1904) 
contained  an  article  relating  to  copyright,  and  on  January  15,  1892,  a 
diplomatic  "agreement"  was  entered  into  between  the  United  States 
and  Germany  for  the  reciprocal  protection  of  literary  property,  but 
this  was  not  submitted  to  the  Senate  for  ratification. 

&  "Copyright  in  Japan.  Law  of  March  3,  1899,  and  Copyright  Con- 
vention between  the  United  States  and  Japan,  May  10,  1906,  together 
with  the  text  of  Earlier  Enactments.  Prepared  under  the  direction 
of  Thorvald  Solberg,  Register  of  Copyrights."  3  p.  l.+so  pp.  8  vo. ' 
Washington,  Government  Printing  Office,  1906.  (Copyright  Office 
Bulletin  no  n.) 


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EXHIBIT  A — Statement  of  gross  receipts,  refunds,  net  receipts,  and 

fees  applied  for  fiscal  vcar  ending  June  jo,  7006 


Gross  cash 

receipts 

Refunds 

Net 
receipts 

Fees 

applied 

1905 

Tulv 

$5  77Q  Q8 

$5  642  86 

6  071   25 

5  904  19 

5  7"H  5° 

September  
October  ... 

6,  405.  60 
6,  789.  36 

239-  82 
190.  85 

6,  165.  78 
6,  598.  51 

6,  171.50 
6,  752.  oo 

November  
December  

January  

6,310.94 
7,981.03 

9,  321.  94 

229.  84 

211.  19 

233.  47 

6,  081.  10 

7,769.84 

9,  088.  47 

5,  802.  oo 
7,458.00 

9,  719.  oo 

February  
March                       

6,  259.  18 
6,  965.  43 

190.  66 
167.  oo 

6,  068.  52 
6,  798.  43 

6,  076.  50 
6,  777.  50 

\pril 

6  954  68 

6  730  66 

May 

6  814  08 

205  52 

6  608  56 

7  020  50 

Tune 

6  957  45 

155  18 

6  802  27 

6,  556.  oo 

Total 

82  610  92 

2  351  73 

80  259  19 

80  198.00 

Balance  brought  forward  from  June  30,  1905 $2, 116.93 

Gross  receipts  July  i,  1905,  to  June  30,  1906    82, 610. 92 

84, 727. 85 

2,351.73 


Total 

IYess  amount  refunded 

To  be  accounted  for 

Balance  carried  forward  July  i,  1906: 

Trust  funds 

Unfinished  business 

Fees  applied  July  i,  1905,  to  June  30,  1906. 


.  82,376.12 


$1,811. 16 
366.96 


2,  178.  12 

80, 198.  oo 


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EXHIBIT  B— Statement  of  fees  paid  into  Treasury 


Date 

Check 
number 

Amount 

Date 

Check 
number 

Amount 

1905 

508 

$i,  200.00 

1906 
Jan.      2  

538 

$2,  OOO.  OO 

4s8  oo 

24  ..       

510 

I,  200.00 

8  

54° 

1,  OOO.  OO 

511 

I,  2OO.  OO 

15  

541 

2,  TOO  OO 

Aug.    4  
7  ••• 
14  -   

21 

512 
513 
5H 
515 

720.  50 
8OO.OO 
1,200.00 
I,  2OO  OO 

22  
29  

Feb.     5  
6  

542 
543 
544 
545 

I,  800.  00 

1,500.00 
500.00 

1,  319  oo 

28 

si6 

S46 

Scot     s 

6 

518 

26  

548 

i,  400  oo 

ii 

519 

"500  oo 

Mar.    5  

549 

500.00 

18  

520 

i  500.  oo 

6  

55° 

I,  176.50 

Oct          2 

19  

SS2 

i,  506  oo 

5  

523 

37L50 

26  

553 

1,500.00 
i,  700  oo 

16 

5   . 

555 

377  50 

526 

9  

556 

I,  2OO.  OO 

527 

i,  400  oo 

16  

557 

i,  500.  oo 

Nov     4 

c28 

852  oo 

558 

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6  

529 

500.  oo 

30  

559 

2,  000.  00 

13  

53° 

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May     4  

560 

710.00 

53  1 

i,  400  oo 

7  

561 

750.00 

562 

i  ,  750  oo 

Dec.     4  

533 

350.  oo 

21  

563 

1,650.00 

534 

28  

564 

i,  400.  oo 

ii 

535 

i,  400  oo 

June    4  

565 

300.  oo 

18 

c->6 

566 

I,  470.50 

26  

537 

i,  700.  oo 

ii  

567 

i,  400.  oo 

18  

568 

1,500.00 

569 

I,  500.00 

July    2 

57° 

i,  500.  oo 

5  

571 

356.00 

Total  

80,  198.00 

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$3,  833-  0° 

8,241 

$4,  408.  oo 

136 

$68.00 

August  

656 

656.00 

7,681 

3,  840.  5° 

8,  337 

4,  496.  50 

163 

81.50 

September  .  . 

743 

743.00 

8,258 

4,129.00 

9,001 

4,872.00 

168 

84.00 

October  

833 

833.00 

8,945 

4,  472-  50 

9,778 

5,  305-  50 

143 

71-50 

November.  .  . 

797 

797.  oo 

7,520 

3,  760.  oo 

8,317 

4,557-00 

138 

69.  oo 

December  .  .  . 

1,049 

i  ,  049.  oo 

9,887 

4,  943-^50 

10,  936 

5,992.50 

220 

110.00 

1906 

January  

74° 

740.00 

14,618 

7,  309.  oo 

15,  358 

8,  049.  oo 

142 

71.00 

February.    .  . 

738 

738.00 

7,901 

3,  950.  50 

8,639 

4,688.50 

121 

60.  50 

March  

967 

967.00 

8,661 

4,  33°.  5° 

9,628 

5,  297-  50 

203 

101.50 

April  

854 

854.00 

8,548 

4,274.00 

9,402 

5,128.00 

183 

91-5° 

May  

815 

815.00 

9,596 

4,798.00 

10,411 

5,613.00 

162 

81.00 

June 

776 

776.  oo 

8,880 

4,  440.  oo 

ArA 

5  216.  oo 

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9,    5 

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9,  543 

9,  543-  °° 

108,  161 

54,  080.  50 

117,704 

63,623.50 

1,992 

996.00 

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$39-  oo 

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2,148 

i,  074!  oo 

2,311 

1,155-5° 

37-50 

47 

45-oo 

5,  734-  50 

September  .  . 

2,156 

1,078.00 

2,324 

I,  162.00 

107 

53-  50 

So 

84.00 

6,  171.50 

October  

2,511 

1,255-50 

2,654 

1,327.00 

117 

58.50 

60 

61.00 

6,  752.  oo 

November.  .  . 

2  083 

1,041.50 

2,221 

I,  110.50 

147 

73-  5°. 

58 

61.  oo 

5,  802.  oo 

December  .  .  . 

2,363 

1,181.50 

2,583 

1,291.50 

182 

91.00 

73 

83.00 

7,  458.  oo 

1906 

January  

2,886 

1,443.00 

3,028 

1,514.00 

146 

73-00 

43 

78.00 

$5.  oo 

9,719.00 

February.  ..  . 

2,  2l8 

i,  109.00 

2,  339 

1,169.50 

333 

166.50 

52 

51.00 

i.oo   6,076.50 

March  

i,  198.00 

2,  599 

1,299.50 

241 

120.50 

43 

55-oo 

5.00  6,777.50 

April  

1,251-50 

2,686 

1,343-00 

138 

69.00 

58 

65.00 

'.,610.00 

May  

2,  4OO 

I,  2OO.  OO 

2,562 

1,281.00 

147 

73-  5° 

53 

52.00 

7,  020.  50 

June  

T,  101.50 

2,41(1 

68.00 

60 

64.00 

6,  556.  oo 

Total  .  . 

13,902.00^9,796  14,898.00,1,843 

921.50 

669 

738.00 

17.0080,  198.00 

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EXHIBIT  D — Copyright    business    (monthly    comparison}.     Annual 
report  for  the  fiscal  year  July  /,  sooj,  to  June  30,  1906 

[Comparative  monthly  statement  of  gross  cash  receipts,  executed  business, 
number  of  entries,  daily  averages,  etc.] 


Month 

Gross  receipts 

Business  executed 

Monthly 
receipts 

Monthly 
increase 

Monthly 
decrease 

Daily 
aver- 
age 

1905-6 

In- 
crease 

De- 
crease 

Daily 
aver- 
age 

1905 

July 

$5,  779-  98 
6,071.25 
6,  405.  60 
6,  789.  36 
6,310.94 
7,981.03 

9.321-94 
6,  259.  18 
6,  965-  43 
6,954.68 
6,814.08 
6,  957-  45 

$291.27 
334-  35 
383-  76 

1,670.09 
1,340.91 

$412.31 
478.42 

3,  062.  76 

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140.  60 

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278.  i? 
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5,  734-  50 
6,  17^50 
6,752.00 
5,  802.  oo 
7,458.00 

9,719.00 
6,  076.  50 
6,  777-  5° 
6,  610.00 
7,  020.  50 
6,  556.  oo 

$214.00 

437-00 
580.  50 

1  ,  656.  00 

2,261.00 
701.00 

$666.50 

$220.  82 
212.39 
246.86 
259.  69 
232.08 
298.32 

373-  80 
264.  19 
251.01 
264.  40 
270.02 
252-  15 

August    
September  .  . 
October  
November..  . 
December  .  .  . 

1906 
January  
February.  .  .  . 
March  
April  
May  
June  

Total  .  . 

950.00 
3,  642.  50 

706.  25 

167.  50 
464.  50 

143-37 

410.50 

82,610.  92 

80,  198.  oo 

Month 

Number  of  entries 

Foreign 

United 
States 

Total 

Increase 

Decrease 

Daily 
average  , 

1905 

July  

August  
September  .  . 
October  
November  .  . 
December  .  .  . 

1906 
January  
February.    .  . 
March  
April  
May  
June  

Total  .  . 

575 
656 
743 
833 
797 
1,049 

740 
738 
967 
854 
815 
776 

7,666 
7,681 
8,258 
8,945 
7,520 
9,887 

14,618 
7,901 
8,  66  1 
8,548 
9,596 
8,880 

8,  241 

8,337 
9,001 
9,778 
8,317 
10,  936 

15,  358 
8,639 
9,628 
o,  402 
10,411 
9,656 

96 
664 

777 

2,619 
4,422 

1,093 

330 
308 
360 
376 
333 
437 

590 
375 
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376 
400 
371 

1,461 

6,719 
226 

989 
1,009 

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9,543 

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receipts 

In- 
crease 

De- 
crease 

Yearly 
fees 

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De- 
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en- 
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Dollars 

Dollars 

Dollars 

Dollars 

Dollars 

1897-98  .  . 

61,099.56 

55,  926.  50 

75,  545 

1898-99  .  . 

64,  185.  65 

3,  086.  09 

58,267.00 

2,  340.  50 



80,968 

5,  423 

1899-1900 
1900-1901 
1901-2  ..  . 
1902-3  .  .  . 
1903-4  .  .  . 

71,072.33 
69,  525-  25 
68,405.08 
7i,533-9i 
75,  302.  83 

6,  886.  68 

i,547.o8 

I,  120.  17 

65,  206.  oo 
63,687.50 
64,  687.  oo 

68,  874.  50 
72,  629.  oo 

6,  939.  oo 

1,518.50 

94,  798 
92,  35i 
92,  978 
97,  979 
103,  130 

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999-  50 
4,  187.50 
3,  754-  50 

3,128.83 
3,  768.  92 

1904-5  .  .  . 
1905-6  .  .  . 

80,  440.  56 
82,610.92 

5,  137-  73 
2,412.92 

78,  058.  oo 
80,  198.  oo 

5,429.00 

2,  140.  00 



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10,244 
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EXHIBIT  F — Table  of  entries  of  titles  made  during  the  fiscal  years 
1901-2,  1902-3,  1903-4,  1904-5,  and  1905-6,  arranged  by  classes 


1901-2 

1902-3 

1903-4 

1904-5 

1905-6 

Class  A.  Books: 

(a)  Books  (vols.)  and  pamphlets  

8,399 

10,589 

15,  87° 

16,  037 

15,  504 

(b)  Booklets,  leaflets,  circulars,  cards. 

9,174 

7,827 

3,36i 

3,366 

4,567 

(c)  Newspaper  and  magazine  articles. 

6,699 

8,  050 

8,593 

10,  457 

9,190 

Total  

24,  272 

26,  466 

27,  824 

29  860 

29  261 

Class  B.  Periodicals  (numbers)  

21,  071 

22,  625 

21,496 

22,591 

23,  163 

Class  C.  Musical  compositions  

19,706 

21,  l6l 

23,  II0 

24,  595 

26,  435 

Class  D.  Dramatic  compositions  

1,448 

I,  608 

i,57i 

1,645 

'     1,879 

I    708 

i  767 

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Class  F.  Engravings,  cuts,  and  prints.  .  .  . 

5,999 

5,546 

6,510 

",3°3 

10,  946 

Class  G.  Chromos  and  lithographs  .  .   ... 

2,010 

2,232 

2,384 

2,581 

3,471 

Class  H.  Photographs  

13,923 

13,519 

14,  534 

15,  139 

17,269 

Class   I.  Fine  arts:  Paintings,  drawings, 

and  sculpture  

2,841 

3,°3° 

3,934 

3,829 

3,608 

Grand  total  

92,  978 

97,  979 

103,  130 

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Appendix  III 

COPYRIGHT  BILL  (S.  6330,  H.  K.  19853) 

STATEMENT  BY  THE  LIBRARIAN  OF  CONGRESvS  TO  THE 
COMMITTEE  AT  THE  FIRST  PUBUC  HEARING,  JUNK  6, 
1906 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Committee: 

The  origin  of  the  bill  before  you  is  indicated  in  the  mes- 
sage of  the  President  to  Congress  last  December.  The  pas- 
sage is  as  follows: 

"Our  copyright  laws  urgently  need  revision.  They  are  imper- 
fect in  definition,  confused  and  inconsistent  in  expression;  they 
omit  provision  for  many  articles  which,  under  modern  reproduc- 
tive processes,  are  entitled  to  protection;  they  impose  hardships 
upon  the  copyright  proprietor  which  are  not  essential  to  the  fair 
protection  of  the  public;  they  are  difficult  for  the  courts  to  inter- 
pret and  impossible  for  the  Copyright  Office  to  administer  with 
satisfaction  to  the  public.  Attempts  to  improve  them  by  amend- 
ment have  been  frequent,  no  less  than  twelve  acts  for  the  purpose 
having  been  passed  since  the  Revised  Statutes.  To  perfect  them 
by  further  amendment  seems  impracticable.  A  complete  revision 
of  them  is  essential.  Such  a  revision,  to  meet  modern  conditions, 
has  been  found  necessary  in  Germany,  Austria,  Sweden,  and  other 
foreign  countries,  and  bills  embodying  it  are  pending  in  Bngland 
and  the  Australian  colonies.  It  has  been  urged  here,  and  pro- 
posals for  a  commission  to  undertake  it  have,  from  time  to  time, 
been  pressed  upon  the  Congress.  The  inconveniences  of  the  pres- 
ent conditions  being  so  great,  an  attempt  to  frame  appropriate 
legislation  has  been  made  by  the  Copyright  Office,  which  has 
called  conferences  of  the  various  interests  especially  and  prac- 
tically concerned  with  the  operation  of  the  copyright  laws.  It 
has  secured  from  them  suggestions  as  to  the  changes  necessary; 
it  has  added  from  its  own  experience  and  investigations,  and  it 
has  drafted  a  bill  which  embodies  such  of  these  changes  and 
additions  as,  after  full  discussion  and  expert  criticism,  appeared 
to  be  sound  and  safe.  In  form  this  bill  would  replace  the  exist- 
ing insufficient  and  inconsistent  laws  by  one  general  copyright 
statute.  It  will  be  presented  to  the  Congress  at  the  coming  ses- 
sion. It  deserves  prompt  consideration." 
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So  far  the  message.  The  actual  origin  of  the  project  was 
a  suggestion — informal — by  you,  Mr.  Chairman,  that  the 
Copyright  Office  should  call  the  Conference. 

The  Conferences  were  not  open  public  meetings,  nor 
formal  conventions.  They  were  merely  conferences  of 
organizations  specially  invited — that  is  to  say,  associations 
representing  a  group  of  interests;  and  the  organizations 
selected  were  all  the  most  representative  organizations 
that  we  could  think  of,  or  that  were  brought  to  our  atten- 
tion, as  having  practical  concern  in  the  amelioration  of  the 
law,  but  especially  those  concerned  in  an  affirmative  way — 
that  is,  in  the  protection  of  the  right.  They  were  nearly 
thirty  in  number.  The  list  of  them  and  their  representatives 
is  before  you.  They  are  the  writers  of  books,  the  writers 
of  plays,  the  composers  of  music,  the  architects,  painters 
and  sculptors,  the  photographers  and  photo-engravers,  the 
publishers  of  books,  newspapers,  periodicals,  music  and 
prints,  and  also  the  manufacturers — printers,  typographers, 
lithographers.  The  conference  included,  therefore,  those 
interests  that  abroad  are  considered  primary:  that  is,  the 
creators  of  the  works  which  are  to  be  protected,  and  the 
publishers  through  whom  Ihe  property  in  them  becomes 
effective  and  remunerative;  but  it  included  under  each  of 
these  genera  several  species  and  it  added  various  subsidiary 
interests.  It  included  the  National  Education  Association 
and  the  American  Library  Association,  as  representing  to 
some  extent  the  consumers;  and  in  addition  to  the  legal 
counsel  representing  special  interests  it  included  two  com- 
mittees— of  the  American  Bar  Association  and  of  the  New 
York  Bar  Association — of  experts  upon  copyright  law,  who 
gave  gratuitous  service  as  general  advisers  to  the  Confer- 
ences and  in  the  framing  of  theHaill.  Upon  questions  of 
importation  the  Conference  had  the  benefit  of  information 
and  advice  from  a  representative  of  the  Treasury  Depart- 
ment expert  in  the  practice  of  that  Department  at  ports  of 
entry. 

The  Solicitor-General  was  not  a  formal  participant;  but 
his  representative  was  present  throughout  as  an  observer  of 
the  proceedings;  and  if  I  do  not  emphasize  the  aid  which 
he  and  the  Solicitor- General  himself  rendered  in  later  infor- 


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mal  criticism  and  suggestion  it  is  only  because  the  practice 
of  his  office  forbids  him  to  initiate  legislation-,  and  his 
assistance  in  this  must  not  be  taken  as  a  precedent  to  his 
inconvenience. 

The  Conferences  have  included  three  general  meetings  (in 
June  and  November  of  last  year  and  in  March  of  this  year), 
occupying  eleven  days  of  two  sessions  each;  but  they  in- 
cluded also  special  consultations  and  much  correspondence 
in  the  interims. 

At  the  outset  each  organization  was  invited  to  state  the 
respects  in  which  it  deemed  the  present  law  defective  or 
injurious,  either  to  its  particular  interest,  or  in  its  estima- 
tion to  the  general  interest;  and  discussion  was  had  of 
these. 

The  second  Conference  had  before  it  a  memorandum 
[Bulletin  No.  10],  prepared  by  the  Register,  embodying 
provisions  deemed  by  the  Office  important  for  consideration 
at  that  stage. 

The  third  Conference  had  before  it  a  revision  of  this  mem- 
orandum. It  resulted  in  the  draft  of  a  bill  which  was  sent 
to  each  participant  for  his  comment  and  suggestion.  And 
the  bill  itself  is  before  you. 

We  would  have  no  misunderstanding  as  to  what  this  bill 
is.  It  is  a  bill  resulting  from  the  conferences,  but  it  is  not 
a  "conference  bill,"  for  the  conference  did  not  draw  it,  nor 
did  the  conference  by  explicit  vote  or  otherwise  determine 
its  provisions.  It  is  rather  a  Copyright  Office  bill.  The 
Office  submits  it  as  embodying  what,  with  the  best  counsel 
available,  including  the  Conference,  it  deems  worthy  of  your 
consideration.  But  in  calling  the  Conferences  and  in  sub- 
mitting the  draft  it  has  proceeded  upon  your  suggestion, 
Mr.  Chairman.  Apart  from  the  chapter  relating  to  its  own 
administration,  it  has  no  direct  interest  in  the  bill,  except 
its  general  interest  to  secure  a  general  amelioration  of  the 
law.  It  does  not  offer  the  bill  to  you  as  the  unanimous 
decision  of  a  council  of  experts,  for  it  contains  certain  pro- 
visions as  to  which  expert  opinion,  as  well  as  substantial 
interest,  was  divided.  It  does  not  offer  the  bill  to  you  as 
tested  by  general  discussion,  for  the  bill  is  only  now  before 
the  public.  It  knows  already  of  objection  to  certain  of  its 


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provisions — objection  which  will  be  entitled  to  be  heard,  and 
it  is  informed  by  one  critic  desiring  to  be  heard  that  his 
objections  lie  against  fully  half  the  provisions  in  the  bill. 

The  bill  comes  before  you  with  precisely  such  presump- 
tion as  its  history  entitles  it  to;  no  less  than  this,  but  no 
more. 

The  Conference  had  certain  aids,  prepared  in  advance  by 
the  Copyright  Office:  in  particular  these  half  dozen  publi- 
cations a  showing  the  existing  statute  law  in  this  and  other 
countries,  all  prior  enactments  in  this  country,  and  even  a 
list  of  the  various  unenacted  bills  which  represent  previous 
attempts  at  amendment. 

The  Conferences,' as  I  have  stated,  occupied  twenty-two 
sessions.  Their  labors  are  evidenced  by  these  four  volumes 
of  type- written  matter,  which  are  the  stenographer's  min- 
utes of  the  proceedings.  The  sincerity  of  the  endeavor  for 
a  result  that  should  be  scientific  yet  conservative  is  evidenced 
by  the  brevity  of  the  bill.  The  memorandum  of  last  No- 
vember contained  some  sixteen  thousand  words;  that  of 
March  contained  some  eleven  thousand  words;  the  bill  before 
you  contains  little  over  eight  thousand  words.  The  group 
of  statutes  which  embody  existing  law  comprise  about 
four  thousand  words,  and  they  are  imperfect,  and  neither 
organic  nor  systematic. 

The  bill  attempts  to  be  both.  It  is  divided,  as  you  see, 
into  eight  chapters,  with  some  supplementary  miscellaneous 
provisions.  These  chapters  are:  The  nature  and  extent  of 
copyright;  The  subject-matter  of  copyright;  Who  may  ob- 
tain copyright;  How  to  secure  copyright;  The  duration  of 
copyright;  The  protection  of  copyright;  The  transfer  of 
copyright;  and  The  Copyright  Office. 

«  (i)  A  Statement  of  the  Copyright  Laws  of  the  United  States  as  in 
force  March  3,  1905.  (2)  Copyright  Knaetments  within  the  United 
States  (1783-1900).  [Bulletin  No.  3.]  (3)  Copyright  in  Congress, 
1789-1904  (including  complete  bibliography  of  bills,  etc.).  [Bulletin 
No.  8.]  (4)  The  Provisions  of  the  United  States  Copyright  Laws, 
with  some  parallel  provisions  of  foreign  copyright  laws.  [Bulletin 
No.  9.]  (5)  Special  Report  on  Copyright  Legislation,  with  a  bibli- 
ographic list  of  foreign  copyright  laws  in  force  in  1903.  (6)  Special 
bulletins  on  Copyright  in  Canada,  Copyright  in  Kngland,  Copyright 
Protection  in  the  British  Dominions  and  the  Berne  Convention. 


Copyright  Bill — Statement  by  the  Librarian     115 

I  have  furnished  to  your  Committee  some  analysis  of  it, 
particularly  noting  the  points  in  which  it  abrogates  existing 
provisions  of  law  and  the  more  significant  respects  in  which 
it  modifies  or  amplifies  them.  The  provisions  of  existing 
law  which  are  abrogated  are  very  few;  not  so  many,  indeed, 
as  appears  under  that  heading  of  the  memorandum  I  sent 
you,  because  some  of  these  are  mere  modifications.  But  the 
phraseology  of  existing  law  is  only  here  and  there  recogniz- 
able in  the  bill.  This  is  because  the  bill  attempts  to  be 
systematic  and  organic;  and,  second,  because  it  has  sought 
general  terms,  wherever  descriptive,  rather  than  particular 
specifications.  Especially  has  it  preferred  this  where  the 
specifications  might  be  limiting.  This,  as  I  have  noted  in 
the  memorandum  submitted  to  you,  is  particularly  illus- 
trated by  its  treatment  of  the  "subject-matter."  The  bill 
contains  only  the  general  statement  that  it  is  to  include  ' '  all 
the  works  of  an  author, ' '  leaving  the  term  ' '  author  "  to  be 
as  broad  as  the  Constitution  intended:  and  as  you  know 
the  courts  have  followed  Congress  in  construing  it  to  include 
the  originator  in  the  broadest  sense,  just  as  they  have  held 
"writings,"  as  used  in  the  Constitution,  to  intend  not 
merely  literary  but  also  artistic  productions.  Certain  speci- 
fications follow,  but  coupled  with  the  proviso  that  they  shall 
not  be  held  to  limit  the  subject-matter. 

The  specifications  (sec.  5)  substitute  so  far  as  possible 
general  terms  for  particulars.  They  omit,  for  instance,  the 
terms  "engravings,  cuts,  lithographs,  painting,  chromo, 
statue  and  statuary."  They  assume,  however,  that  these 
will  be  included  under  the  more  general  terms  as  "prints 
and  pictorial  illustrations, "  or  "  reproductions  of  a  work  of 
art,"  or  "works  of  art,"  or  "models  or  designs  for  works 
of  art."  The  term  "works  of  art"  is  deliberately  intended 
as  a  broader  specification  than  ' '  works  of  the  fine  arts ' '  in 
the  present  statute,  with  the  idea  that  there  is  subject- 
matter  (e.  g.  of  applied  design,  yet  not  within  the  province 
of  Design  patents)  which  may  properly  be  entitled  to  pro- 
tection under  the  copyright  law. 

The  attempt  to  substitute  general  terms  for  particulars  is 
evidenced  also  in  both  the  definition  of  the  right  and  of  the 
acts  which  constitute  an  infringement  of  the  right.  The 


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present  .statute  (sec.  4952)  defines  the  right  to  consist  in 
"the  sole  liberty"  to  do  certain  things.  The  bill  (sec.  i) 
defines  the  right  to  be  "the  sole  and  exclusive  right"  to 
do  certain  things,  and  it  specifies  those  things;  but  its  spec- 
ifications are  in  terms  very  different  from  those  in  the  pres- 
ent statute.  The  present  statute  (sees.  4965,  4966)  specifies 
certain  acts  which  are  to  be  deemed  an  infringement.  The 
bill,  having  defined  the  right  of  the  copyright  proprietor  as 
the  exclusive  right  to  do  certain  things,  defines  an  infringe- 
ment to  consist  in  the  doing  or  causing  to  be  done  without 
his  consent  of  any  of  these  things,  the  right  to  do  or  to 
authorize  which  is  reserved  to  him.  It  contents  itself  with 
this,  adding  only  the  one  specification  that  ' '  any  reproduc- 
tion ' '  without  his  consent ' '  of  any  work  or  material  part  of 
any  work  in  which  [his]  copyright  is  subsisting ' '  shall  be 
an  infringement. 

So  as  to  the  person  who  may  obtain  copyright.  The 
present  statute  (sec.  4951)  mentions  the  "author,  inventor, 
designer  or  proprietor,"  and  elsewhere  (sec.  4957)  the 
"originator."  The  bill  rests  with  the  term  used  in  the 
Constitution,  "author,"  and  the  additional  term,  "pro- 
prietor, ' '  which  is  not  merely  in  the  existing  statutes  but 
has  been  construed  in  a  series  of  judicial  decisions. 

Copyright  consists  in  the  exclusive  right,  within  a  defined 
period,  to  do  certain  things  with  certain  subject-matter  and 
to  prevent  other  people  from  doing  them.  The  fundamen- 
tal provisions  in  a  copyright  law  are,  therefore,  these:  (i) 
What  is  the  subject-matter;  (2)  What  are  the  acts;  (3)  How 
may  the  exclusive  right  to  do  them  be  secured;  and  (4)  Who 
may  secure  it?  Now  on  the  third  point  the  bill  modifies 
substantially  the  existing  requirements  of  law.  These  make 
deposit  and  registration  a  condition  precedent:  they  require 
the  deposit  to  be  at  least  coincident  with  the  publication , 
and  they  stipulate  that  failure  to  comply  precisely  with  this 
requirement  shall  avoid  the  copyright  ab  initio. 

The  bill  (sec.  9)  initiates  the  copyright  from  the  date 
of  the  publication  of  the  work  with  the  notice  of  copyright 
affixed.  vSo  in  effect  does  the  present  law,  provided  the 
de-posit  and  registration  be  effected  then.  But  by  the  bill 
the  publication  with  notice  not  merely  initiates  the  copy- 


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right:  it  "secures"  it.  Deposit  and  registration  in  the 
Copyright  Office  are  still  requisite:  but  a  reasonable  period 
after  publication  is  allowed  for  them.  The  period  is  thirty 
days,  and,  in  the  case  of  error  or  omission,  may  be  even  an 
entire  year;  but  with  the  proviso  that  after  thirty  days  no 
action  for  infringement  can  be  brought  until  these  formali- 
ties have  been  complied  with. 

The  right  is  to  be  exclusive  ' '  for  a  limited  period. ' '  This  . 
period  is  now  twenty-eight  years,  with  a  possible  renewal 
for  fourteen  more;  a  maximum,  therefore,,  of  forty-two 
3^ears.  The  bill  abolishes  renewals  and  provides  for  three 
terms  according  to  the  subject-matter.  The  shortest  is 
twenty-eight  years — for  labels  and  prints  relating  to  articles 
of  manufacture.  The  second — fifty  years — is  substantially 
identical  with  the  present  maximum.  It  applies  to  some 
original,  and  all  derivative,  works.  It  would  probably  cover 
the  majority  of  the  copyright  entries.  The  longest — the 
life  of  the  author  and  fifty  years  after  his  death — applies 
only  to  original  works,  but  to  most  original  works. 

Upon  the  reason  and  merit  of  these  terms,  especially  the 
last,  you  will  doubtless  hear  discussion.  I  merely  call  them 
to  your  attention,  with  these  suggestions,  which  have  been 
urged  upon  us: 

First.  That  the  present  term  of  forty-two  years  makes  no 
certain  provision  for  the  author  himself  during  his  lifetime, 
nor  for  his  immediate  family  after  his  death.  These  are 
grave  defects.  They  are  not  disposed  of  by  the  fact  that 
only  a  small  percentage  of  authors  or  their  families  take 
advantage  of  the  present  privilege  of  renewal. 

Second.  That  a  term  as  long  as  life  and  fifty  years  exists 
in  no  less  than  fifteen  countries,  including  France;  that 
England,  with  a  minimum  term  of  life  and  seven  years,  pro- 
poses one  of  life  and  thirty  years;  and  Germany,  with  one 
of  life  and  thirty  years,  is  discussing  one  of  life  and  fifty 
years;  and 

Third.  That  a  common  disposition  to  question  a  long 
term  for  copyrights  on  the  ground  that  a  short  term  suffices 
for  patents  is  based  on  false  analogy.  Literary  or  artistic 
works  and  useful  inventions  may  equally  be  the  creations 
of  the  mind,  and  they  are  coupled  in  the  Constitution,  but 


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only  as  deserving  protection.  Their  character  and  the  dura- 
tion of  the  protection  required  by  each  may  be  very  differ- 
ent. It  is  very  different.  The  monopoly  is  different,  the 
returns  to  the  creator  are  different,  the  interests  of  the  pub- 
lic are  different.  The  monopoly  by  patent  in  an  invention 
is  a  complete  monopoly  of  the  idea;  the  monopoly  by  copy- 
right in  a  literary  or  artistic  work  is  a  monopoly  only  of  the 
particular  expression  of  an  idea.  The  inventor's  exclusive 
control  of  his  idea  may  bar  innumerable  other  inventions  of 
importance  to  the  public;  the  author's  or  artist's  exclusive 
control  of  his  particular  expression  bars  no  one  but  a  mere 
reproducer.  The  returns  to  an  inventor  are  apt  to  be  quick; 
the  returns  to  an  author  are  apt  to  be  slow — and  in  a  book 
the  slower  in  proportion  to  its  .serious  merit.  The  returns 
to  a  successful  inventor  are  large;  the  returns  even  to  a  suc- 
cessful author  or  artist  are  but  moderate.  The  idea  covered 
by  an  invention  or  discovery  may  concern  the  essential  wel- 
fare, even  the  lives,  of  the  public,  and  should  be  freely 
available  at  the  earliest  moment  not  unjust  to  the  inventor. 
No  particular  book  or  work  of  art — none,  at  least,  currently 
copyrighted — can  be  said  to  be  essential  to  the  welfare  or 
protection  of  the  community.  Many  a  man's  pleasure  may 
be  enhanced  by  it,  and  some  men's  profit;  but  no  man's 
essential  \velfare  depends  upon  it,  and  no  man's  life — save 
perhaps  the  author's  own. 

Remedies — In  no  respect  are  the  present  statutes  asserted 
to  be  less  satisfactory  than  in  their  provisions  for  the  pro- 
tection of  the  right,  and  redress  to  the  copyright  proprietor 
for  an  invasion  of  it.  One  inconvenience  is  that  they  pro- 
vide a  different  class  of  remedies  and  recoveries  for  different 
subject-matter;  another  is  that  they  confuse  the  duty  of 
the  Government  to  punish  a  deliberate  piracy,  as  it  would 
any  other  theft,  with  the  right  of  the  copyright  proprietor 
to  compensation  for  his  particular  losses.  The  bill  pro- 
vides uniform  remedies;  and  it  divorces  the  civil  action 
from  the  criminal.  As  the  Memorandum  states  this: — '  'Pen- 
allies  imposed  for  acts  in  the  nature  of  misdemeanors  are 
no  longer  to  be  shared  by  the  United  States  with  a  person 
suing  for  them  ;  "  nor  "  are  sums  recovered  by  way  of  com- 
pensation to  the  copyright  proprietor  to  be  shared  by  him 


Copyright  Bill — Statement  by  the  Librarian     119 

with  the  United  States."  Nor  is  his  right  to  recover  such 
sums  to  be  imperiled  by  the  necessity  of  proving  that  the 
defendant  has  committed  an  offense  against  the  community 
as  well  as  profited  at  his  expense. 

The  deliberate  theft  of  a  dramatic  or  musical  composition 
by  the  wilful  performance  of  it  for  profit  without  the  assent 
of  the  author  or  proprietor  is  now  by  law  a  misdemeanor. 
The  Conference  could  not  see  why  this  provision  should  not 
apply  to  any  infringement  which  is  both  wilful  and  for 
profit.  Section  25  extends  it  to  all  such. 

The  existing  provision  [Rev.  Stat.,  sec.  4966]  providing 
remedies  and  penalties  for  infringement  of  dramatic  and 
musical  copyrights  is  of  great  moment  to  the  dramatists  and 
composers.  And  now  that  it  is  merged  in  the  general  pro- 
visions of  this  and  other  sections  of  the  bill  they  are  in  great 
apprehension  lest  it  may  suffer  accident,  if  accident  befall 
these.  To  guard  against  this,  the  general  repealing  clause 
of  the  bill  excepts  and  continues  in  force  section  4966  of  the 
Revised  Statutes.  But  it  does  so  with  the  intention  that 
this  exception  shall  be  dropped  in  case  the  general  pro- 
visions stand. 

The  reason  or  merit  of  these  and  other  provisions  of  the 
bill  will  at  the  proper  time  have  to  be  made  clear  to  you,  if 
challenged.  That  is  no  part  of  my  present  duty,  which  is 
merely  to  introduce  the  bill  to  your  attention  with  some 
explanation  as  to  how  it  came  to  be  and  some  note  of  its 
leading  features.  But  I  except  two  matters.  I  do  so  to 
avoid  misapprehension;  and  I  feel  free  to  do  so  because 
both  involve  the  administration  of  the  Copyright  Office. 
One  is  as  to  fees.  The  impression  has  gone  out  that  the 
fee  for  registration  is  to  be  doubled.  The  fee  for  registration 
is  now  fifty  cents;  but  fifty  cents  additional  is  charged  for 
the  certificate,  when  furnished.  The  proposed  fee  is  $i; 
but  this  is  to  include  the  certificate,  which  is  to  be  furnished 
in  every  case  as  a  matter  of  course.  It  ought  to  be  fur- 
nished; and  no  claimant  of  copyright  ought  to  rest  easy 
without  it.  It  is  the  evidence  of  registration  and  deposit — 
indispensable  formalities;  and  it  is  now  to  be  prima  facie 
evidence  in  a  court  of  law.  If  the  copyright  is  worth  the 
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fifty  cents  for  registration,  it  would  certainly  seem  worth  the 
additional  fifty  cents  for  the  certificate. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  bill  tends  to  reduce  the  aggregate 
fees  payable  by  any  one  publisher — and  the  aggregate 
receipts  of  the  Office — by  enabling  a  number  of  volumes 
of  the  same  work,  and,  in  the  case  of  photographs,  prints, 
and  like  articles,  an  entire  series,  if  registered  at  the  same 
time,  to  be  registered  for  a  single  fee. 

The  other  matter  is  that  of  the  copyright  deposits.  The 
value  of  these  is  now  prodigious.  During  last  year  alone 
the  articles  deposited  numbered  over  200,000.  A  large  pro- 
portion of  these  are  of  great  value  to  the  Library  and  are 
drawn  up  into  it.  The  re.st  remain  in  the  cellar.  The  ac- 
cumulations in  the  cellar  now  number  a  million  and  a  half 
items.  Many  of  these  would  be  useful  in  other  Govern- 
ment libraries;  some  of  them  might  be  useful  in  exchange 
with  other  libraries;  a  few  might  have  value  in  exchange 
with  dealers.  The  remainder  are  a  heavy  charge  upon  the 
Government  for  storage  and  care,  without  any  corresponding 
benefit.  They  ought  to  be  returned  to  the  copyright  pro- 
prietors if  they  want  them,  or,  if  not  wanted,  destroyed. 

Such  dispositions  are,  I  believe,  already  within  the  au- 
thority of  law;  but  it  is  fair  that  they  should  be  expressed. 
The  bill  (sees.  58  and  59)  definitely  expresses  them.  I 
ask  your  attention  to  them  in  due  course.  They  have  been 
accepted  by  the  Conferences,  and  therefore  by  the  interests 
outside  of  the  Government  most  nearly  concerned  with 
their  operation.  But  they  may  awaken  some  apprehension 
elsewhere  because  of  a  quite  common  misunderstanding  of 
the  significance  of  the  deposit  and  its  relation  to  the  copy- 
right protection.  The  original  purpose  of  such  deposits 
was  the  enrichment  of  the  Library.  This  is  clear  from 
their  history,  both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  They  were 
made  a  condition  of  securing  copyright,  but  they  had  no 
continuing  relation  to  the  copyright  once  secured.  In 
France,  for  instance,  they  were  for  the  benefit  and  use  of 
the  Royal  Library;  in  England  they  were  once  for  the 
benefit  and  use  of  eleven  libraries,  and  are  now  for  the 
benefit  and  use  of  five  libraries;  but  no  one  of  these  libra- 
ries is  the  office  of  registration  for  copyrights.  The  first 


Copyright  Bill — Statement  by  the  Librarian     121 

statute  requiring  them  in  this  country  was  that  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  1783,  and  the  statute  read  that  the  copyright 
proprietor  should  "present''1  two  copies  of  his  work  to  the 
library  of  Harvard  University  '  'for  the  use  of  said  univer- 
sity. ' '  But  neither  that  library  nor  the  university  was  made 
the  office  of  registration  for  copyrights. 

The  first  act  which  provided  for  a  deposit  in  the  Library 
of  Congress  was  the  act  of  1846;  and  this  specified  that  the 
copy  "delivered"  was  "for  the  use"  of  the  Library.  It 
required  a  second  copy  to  be  "  delivered ' '  to  the  librarian 
of  the  Smithsonian  "for  the  use"  of  that  library.  Neither 
library  was  then  the  Copyright  Office,  nor  had  anything  to 
do  with  registrations.  In  1867  the  library  of  the  Smithso- 
nian became  a  part  of  the  Library  of  Congress;  and  the  act 
of  1870  specified  two  copies  to  be  addressed  to  the  Library 
of  Congress. 

But  by  this  same  act  the  Library  of  Congress  became  the 
office  of  registration  for  copyrights;  and  from  that  time, 
and  because  the  failure  to  deposit  not  later  than  the  date  of 
publication  actually  avoided  the  copyright,  an  impression 
has  grown  up  that  the  articles  deposited  are  an  integral  part 
of  the  record  of  registration  and  have  a  peculiar  sanctity  as 
such.  The  fact  of  the  deposit  has  been,  and  will  be,  an 
integral  part  of  the  record:  and  in  times  past  this  could 
most  readily  be  proved  by  the  stamp  upon  the  articles  them- 
selves, the  law  providing  neither  for  a  certificate  to  the 
claimant  admitting  the  receipt  nor  an  entry  in  the  office 
records  showing  it.  But  hereafter  the  fact  of  deposit  will 
be  proved  by  the  certificate  itself. 

There  is  an  impression  that  the  copies  deposited  are  nec- 
essary evidenced  the  thing  copyrighted;  that  they  are,  there- 
fore, essential  in  litigation.  During  the  past  thirty-six  years 
we  have  record  of  only  four  cases  in  which  they  have  been 
summoned  into  court,  and  in  these  the  necessity  was  not 
obvious.  For  the  matter  of  that,  however,  there  is  little 
prospect  that  any  article  of  sufficient  importance  to  be  sub- 
ject of  litigation  would  be  deliberate!}7  destroyed  or  would 
fail  to  be  drawn  into  the  permanent  collections  of  the 
Library. 


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Having  indicated  something  of  what  the  bill  is,  let  me 
add  a  word  as  to  what  it  is  not: 

First.  It  is  not  a  codification  of  the  Common  law.  Even 
more  than  the  present  statutes  it  leaves  to  the  courts  to 
determine  the  meaning  and  extent  of  terms  already  con- 
strued by  the  courts.  It  does  this  even  in  cases  wrhere  the 
temptation  was  strong  to  define  and  where  foreign  statutes 
attempt  definition:  who  is  an  "author?"  for  instance;  what 
is  "publication?" — in  the  case  of  works  not  reproduced  in 
copies  for  sale;  what  is  "  fair  use?  "  Many  such  definitions 
were  proposed  and  discussed,  but  deliberately  omitted  as 
unsafe. 

Second.  It  does  not  attempt  to  regulate  relations  between 
authors  and  publishers  which  are,  or  may  be,  matter  of  par- 
ticular contract. 

Third.  It  is  not  an  attempt  at  abstract  and  theoretic  per- 
fection; nor  is  it  an  attempt  to  transplant  to  this  country 
theoretic,  or  what  might  be  charged  to  be  sentimental,  pro- 
visions of  foreign  law.  It  tries  to  be  a  bill  possible  for  this 
country  at  this  time  and  under  conditions  local  here. 

It  contains  some  provisions  which  are  neither  theoretically 
sound,  nor  according  to  modern  usage  abroad,  nor  satisfac- 
tory to  particular  participants  in  the  Conferences.  These 
are  a  compromise — between  principle  and  expediency,  or 
between  one  interest  and  another  within  the  Conferences. 
The  bill  is  a  compromise.  I  doubt  if  there  is  a  single  par- 
ticipant whom  it  satisfies  in  every  particular. 

Fourth.  The  bill  is  not  a  mere  congeries  of  provisions  pro- 
posed by  a  selfish  group  each  member  of  which  was  consid- 
ering solely  his  own  particular  interest.  If  it  were,  it  would 
have  required  but  one  session  of  the  Conference  instead  of 
twenty-two.  It  contains,  of  course,  some  provisions  which 
concern  only  particular  interests — for  instance,  the  provision 
as  to  "sound-records,"  or  that  as  to  affidavit  of  domestic 
manufacture;  but  these  are  few  and  easily  distinguishable. 
We  trust  that  they  will  be  distinguished,  and  full  opporttinity 
given  for  the  criticism  of  them  by  opposing  interests,  if  such 
develop;  _and  in  case  of  the  sound-records  we  are  advised 
that  they  are  likely  to.  The  bill  as  a  whole  is  the  result  of 
a  sincere  attempt  to  frame  a  reasonable  general  statute.  I 


Copyright  Bill — Statement  by  the  Librarian     123 

say  "sincere"  and  I  feel  the  right  to  say  it,  because  I  fol- 
lowed the  Conferences  closely  and  had  the  best  opportunity 
to  observe  their  temper  and  disposition.  If  some  of  the 
interests  were  "selfish"  in  one  direction,  they  found  oppo- 
sition in  the  "selfishness"  of  others  in  another  direction; 
and  both  were  under  criticism  from  the  general  advisers  and 
under  the  influence  and  example  of  the  main  body.  And 
neither  such  interests  nor  any  others  participating  initiated 
the  Conference  nor  determined  its  composition  nor  controlled 
its  proceedings.  The  Conference  was  initiated  by  the  Copy- 
right Office;  it  was  composed  of  organizations  invited  by 
the  Office;  and  it  was  theoretically  held  in  the  Office.  The 
Librarian  presided  at  it;  and  except  for  the  purpose  of  some 
formal  resolutions  it  did  not  "organize"  at  all  or  in  any 
other  way  pass  out  of  his  control. 

But  if  the  bill  reveal  some  ' '  selfishness  "it  is  perhaps  a 
selfishness  condonable.  It  is,  after  all,  but  the  selfishness 
of  men  trying  to  protect  their  own  property.  The  bill  has 
this  purpose.  It  does  not  create  a  new  species  of  property; 
it  merely  provides  for  one  recognized  by  the  Constitution 
and  already  by  statute.  It  does  not  withdraw  from  one 
man  his  property  in  favor  of  another;  it  merely  secures 
against  untimely  expropriation,  to  the  man  who  has  created 
it,  a  species  of  property  which  peculiarly  requires  the  pro- 
tection of  the  law,  because  the  very  act — publication — which 
makes  it  remunerative  lays  it  open  to  expropriation;  and 
which  is  peculiarly  entitled  to  the  protection  of  the  law 
because  it  is  this  very  act,  and  this  alone,  which  makes  it 
of  use  to  the  public.  And  it  secures  this  property  not  per- 
manently, but  only  against  an  untimely  expropriation: — 
one  which  would  deprive  the  author  of  his  fair  return  and 
the  public  of  that  enrichment  which  comes  of  progress  in 
literature  and  the  arts. 

But  the  public,  it  may  be  said,  was  not  represented  at  the 
conferences.  The  public  in  this  matter,  Mr.  Chairman, 
belongs  to  one  of  four  classes:  (i)  He  is  the  original  pro- 
ducer, publisher  or  manufacturer  of  the  copyright  work;  or 
(2)  he  is  one  who  enjoys  the  work  as  a  consumer;  or  (3)  he 
is  one  who  wishes  to  utilize  the  work  in  some  other  work, 
or  to  reproduce  and  market  it  for  his  own  benefit,  when 


124  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

either  of  these  can  be  done  innocently;  or  (4)  he  is  the  stu- 
dent and  critic  of  the  rights  and  obligations  of  property  and 
of  the  regulation  of  this  by  law.  There  may  be  a  fifth 
class — the  mere  "pirate."  He,  to  be  sure,  was  not  invited 
to  the  Conferences;  but  I  do  not  suppose  he  will  be  to 
your  hearings. 

But  the  innocent  reproducer  was  not  unrepresented  at  the 
Conferences  nor  in  the  discussions:  in  fact,  most  of  the  pro- 
ducers were  also  reproducers  and  quite  insistent  upon  their 
convenience  as  such.  The  original  producers,  publishers 
and  manufacturers  were  there  as  of  right;  and  the  student 
and  critic  through  their  interest  and  public  spirit.  As  for 
the  consumers,  two  considerable  groups  were  actually  rep- 
resented, and  more  would  have  been  if  organizations  could 
have  been  found  to  represent  them.  Others  also  spoke  for 
them.  But,  Mr.  Chairman,  it  is  in  the  interest  of  the  con- 
sumer, just  because  it  is  in  the  interest  of  the  producer,  that 
copyright  laws  are  chiefly  designed,  have  been  designed 
from  time  immemorial,  and  were  called  for  by  the  Constitu- 
tion. And  if  this  proposed  one  fails  fairly  to  regard  his 
interests,  its  defects  will  surely  be  brought  to  your  attention 
by  the  great  third  estate,  which  is  jealous  for  them — the 
newspaper  and  periodical  press.  For  the  bill  is  now  before 
the  country. 

Finally,  Mr.  Chairman,  notwithstanding  the  labor  put 
upon  it,  the  bill  is  probably  still  imperfect  in  expressing  its 
intentions;  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  while  it  is  under  con- 
sideration those  especially  concerned  will  ask  leave  to  sub- 
mit to  you  some  amendments  of  phraseology.  I  understand 
that  any  such  amendments  proposed  by  participants  in  the 
Conference  will  be  communicated  first  to  the  Copyright 
Office,  so  that  they  may  be  formulated  by  the  Register  for 
your  convenient  consideration;  and  the  Office  will  as  gladly 
do  the  same  for  any  that  may  reach  it  from  other  sources. 

The  relation  of  the  Office  to  this  project  has  been  peculiar. 
That  alone  has  excused  me  in  introducing  the  bill  to  you. 
Having  introduced  it,  the  Office  will,  with  your  permission, 
relapse  into  its  more  normal  position  of  informant  to  your 
Committee  on  matters  of  fact,  and  an  adviser,  when  its  opin- 
ion is  asked.  With  the  general  structure  of  the  bill,  iuclud- 


Copyright  Bill — Statement  by  the  Librarian     125 

ing  the  effect  of  proposed  phraseology,  the  Office  is  necessa- 
rily concerned.  Upon  the  general  principles  involved,  and 
upon  matters  of  practice,  the  Office  will  naturally  have  an 
opinion,  and  may  not  avoid  ultimately  expressing  this,  even 
though  in  doing  so  it  incidentally  support  a  provision  which 
concerns  particularly  a  particular  interest.  It  can  not 
avoid  this  where  a  bill  is  referred  to  it  by  your  Committee 
for  its  opinion;  still  less  can  it  do  so  in  the  present  case, 
where  it  is  itself  in  possession  of  the  reasons  which  induced 
the  various  provisions  and  the  principles  supposed  to  under- 
lie them.  It  must,  as  occasion  requires,  expound  the  bill. 
Mere  advocacy,  however,  of  particular  provisions  it  must 
leave  to  others. 


Appendix  IV 

MANUSCRIPTS 

I.    GIFTS,    1905-6 

From  Miss  Margarite  Anderson,  Lyndon,  Ohio: 

"International  Peace  Song."     "The  Peace-Makers."     Poems  by 

the  donor.     A.  D.  S.   • 
From  Mrs.  Levi  Ankeny,  Walla  Walla,  Washington: 

Nesmith,    James   W.      Broadside    against    J.    Quinn    Thornton. 

Oregon  City,  1847,  June  7. 
From  Prof.  John  Spencer  Bassett,  Durham,  N.  C. : 

North  Carolina,  Glasgow  Land  Frauds.     Papers  relating  thereto, 

1797,  Dec.      [Typewritten  transcripts.] 
From  M.  E.  Beall,  Washington,  D.  C. : 

"El  Ydeal,"  A  Manuscript  newspaper,  published  by  Jose"  Porrata. 

ist  year,  No.  5.     1905,  July  18. 
From  William  Beer,  New  Orleans,  La. : 

Papers  relating  to  military  matters  in  Mississippi,  1862-1868.    Bills, 

certificates  of  destruction  of  property,  correspondence,  etc. 
From  Boston  Public  Library: 

Broadside  issued  on  occasion  of  erecting  statue  to  Daniel  Webster. 

Boston,  1859,  Sept.  17. 
From  Luigi  di  Carlo,  Tivoli,  Italy: 

Excerpts  from  Poems,  1905.     "Alia  grande  e  celebre  Biblioteca  del 

Congresso  in  Washington."     A.  D.     (In  Italian) 
From  State  of  Connecticut: 

Proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905.     Broadside. 
Proclamation  for  Arbor  and  Bird  Day,  1902.     Broadside. 
From  Connecticut  State  Library: 

Proclamation  for  Arbor  and  Bird  Day,  1906.     Broadside. 
Proclamation  for  Fast  Day,  1906.     Broadside. 
Proclamation  for  Flag  Day,  1906.     Broadside. 
From  Edward  St.  John  Fairman,  Florence,  Italy: 

Pastime  poetry.     Verse  in  autograph  and  print. 
From  Wendell  Phillips  Garrison,  New  York  City: 

Correspondence,  1905-1906. 
From  Dr.  Samuel  Abbott  Green,  Boston,  Mass. : 

Massachusetts  proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905.     Broad- 
side. 
Massachusetts  proclamation  for  Arbor  Day,  1906.     Broadside. 

(127) 


128  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

From  Martin  I.  J.  Griffin,  Philadelphia,  Pa.: 

Prohibition   campaign   posters.      "Two  Roads  to  Washington" 

and  "  Grand  Rail}-  for  Prohibition." 
^From  the  Governor  of  Guam: 

Memorials  and  other  papers  of  Mariana  Islands.      1886-1892. 
From  Richard  H.  Johnston,  Washington,  D.  C.: 
Canadian  "  Campaign  Songs."     Broadside. 
From  William  and  Edwin  C.  Kent,  Tuxedo  Park,  N.  Y.: 

Commissions,  diplomas,  etc.,  of   Chancellor  James  Kent,   1781- 

1823. 

See  p.  22  of  this  Report. 
From  Dr.  Daniel  S.  Lamb,  Washington,  D.  C. : 

Account  books,  correspondence,  etc.,  of  Association  of  Acting  As- 
sistant Surgeons,  United  States  Army. 
From  F.  H.  Levelle,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.: 

Continental  Currency  bill  for  $8.     Issue  of  1777. 
From  Charles  Henry  Lincoln,  Washington,  D.  C.: 

Subscription  list  of  money  paid  to  David  Wolf  to  recover  a  slave 

woman  and  her  children.     1808. 
Bill  of  complaint  and  answer  of  James  Wright.     Delaware,  1709, 

Mar.  26. 

From  Dr.  Stuyvesant  Fish  Morris,  of  New  York. 
Papers  of  Martin  Van  Buren. 
See  pp.  20-21  of  this  Report. 
From  Territory  of  New  Mexico: 

Proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905.     Broadside. 
From  Miss  Emily  K.  Paterson,  of  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J. 
Notes  of  the  Convention  of  1787,  by  John  Paterson. 
See  pp.  21-22  of  this  Report. 
From  Dr.  C.  J.  Peacock,  Tunbridge  Wells,  England: 

Indentures  of  Guy  Fawkes  with  Christopher  Lomleye  and  Anne 

Shipleye  for  transfer  of  property.     1592-93. 
Agreement   between    Anne    Shipleye  and  Dionisius  Bainbridge, 

159-.     Photo-facsimiles. 
From  the  State  of  Pennsylvania: 

Proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905.     Broadside. 
From  Mrs.  A.  J.  Robertson,  Washington,  D.  C.: 

Coat  of  arms  of  Gov.  Willie  and  Allen  Jones  of  North  Carolina, 
the  family  from  which  John  Paul    took   the  name  of  Jones. 
Illuminated  handiwork  of  the  donor,  on  vellum. 
From  Joseph  George  Rosengarten,  Philadelphia,  Pa.: 

Calendar  of  papers  relating  to  the  German  troops  (Brandenburg 
Anspach)    in    the    American    Revolution,    1777-1782,    in    the 
Public  Record  Office  (London),  Treasury,  Miscellaneous  Vari- 
ous, Bundle  248. 
From  H.  P.  Scratchley,  Bloomfield,  N.  J.: 

Letters  and  papers  of  James  Brown,  of  New  Orleans,  La.      1/77- 

1810. 
See  pp.  22-23  °f  this  Report. 


Manuscripts — Accessions  1 29 

From  Horace  J.  Smith,  Germantown,  Pa.: 

Suggestion  for  legend  for  tablet  commemorating  the  jury  in  the 
trial  of  William  Penn  and  William  Mead,  1670,  to  be  placed  in 
Old  Bailey  Prison,  London,  England,  and  miscellany.     Broad- 
sides. 
From  A.  A.  Stamouli,  New  York  City: 

Advertisement  of  Greek  newspaper  "Thermopylae,"  published 

in  New  York.     Broadside. 
From  Charles  W.  Stewart,  Washington,  D.  C.: 

Miscellaneous  collection  of  manifests,  clearance  papers,  passports, 
etc.     1782-1812.     Mainly  issued  in  connection  with  port  of  Bal- 
timore. 
From  Miss  Minnie  Viola  Stinson,  Washington,  D.  C.: 

Claim  of  Benito  Asuncion  for  restoration  of  property  in  Pasig, 
Manila.  With  signed  disapproval  of  Aguinaldo.  1898.  (In 
Tagalog.) 

From  Capt.  John  R.  M.  Taylor,  U.  S.  A. : 
Letters  of  Zachary  Taylor  and  others. 
See  p.  23  of  this  Report. 
From  Dr.  De  Forest  Willard,  Philadelphia,  Pa.: 

Memorandum  book  of  Daniel  Willard,  of  Hartford,  Conn.  Con- 
tains notes  of  prominent  personages  met  in  Washington  City, 
places  visited,  etc.  1846. 

II.  GENERAL  LIST  OF  ACCESSIONS,  1905-6 

UNITED  STATES 

Army: 

Lists  of  American  soldiers  confined  at  the  City  of  Mexico  by  the 

provost.     1847.     I  vol. 
Association  of  Acting  Assistant  Surgeons,  Records  of.     Account 

books,  correspondence,  etc.     3  vols.  and  miscel.  papers.     Metal 

seal. 
Civil  war: 

Johnston,  Joseph  Eggleston.     General  orders  issued  at  Dalton, 

Georgia.     Jan. -Apr.,  1864.     Contemporary  copies  (32  pieces). 
Mississippi.     Papers    relating    to    military    matters,    1862-1868. 

Bills,  certificates  of  destruction  of  property,  correspondence, 

etc.     (21  pieces.) 

Resarf, .     History  of  the  Great  Rebellion.     I  vol.     A.  D. 

Finance: 

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Molly  (Maryland  sloop).     Commission  as  privateer,  1776.     D.  S. 

John  Hancock. 
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Revolution: 

Halsey,  Zephaniah  and  Archibald  Ramsey.  Memorandum  book 
of  horses  delivered  to  Quartermaster  General's  Department. 
1780-1782.  i  vol. 

Secret  service,  British.  Memorandum  book  of  intelligence,  secret 
agents,  payments,  etc.,  kept  at  British  Headquarters,  1778. 
i  vol. 

Stevens,  Benjamin  Franklin.  Calendar  of  papers  relating  to  Ger- 
man troops  (Brandenburg  Anspach)  in  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, 1777-1782,  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  Treasury,  Miscel. 
Various,  Bundle  248. 

INDIVIDUAL   STATICS 

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Willard,  Daniel  (of  Hartford,  Conn.)     Memorandum  book.    Notes 
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Papers  relating  to  cession  to  the  United  States. 
Georgia  and  Florida: 

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and  trade  difficulties  in  West  Indies  between  Spain  and  Great 
Britain.     I  vol.     1736-1739. 
Massachusetts: 

Boston.     Table  of  exports  and   clearances,  1787-1788.     Estimate 

of  value  of  exports,  1787-1788. 
New  Hampshire: 

Miscellaneous  papers  relating  to  early  colonial  matters.     19  pieces. 
Pennsylvania: 

Northampton  and  Bucks  counties.    House  tax  insurrection,  1799. 

21  pieces. 

Whisky  Insurrection.     Papers  relating  to.      1792-1796.     I  vol. 
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Philippine  Islands: 

Asuncion,  Benito.  Claim  for  restoration  of  property  in  Pasig, 
Manila.  Signed  disapproval  of  Aguinaldo.  1898.  (InTagalog. ) 

EUROPE 

Denmark: 

List  of  land  and  sea  forces.     i8th  Century? 
Prance: 

vSavary  des  Bruslons.     Extracts  from  the  Universal  Dictionary  of 

Commerce.     1723.     Translation.     23  pp. 
Great  Britain: 

Anonymous.     Observations  on  prohibiting  exports  of  corn  from 

England. 
Army.     Letter  from  Ordnance  office.     1795. 


Manuscripts — Accessions  131 

Great  Britain: 

Comptroller.     Memorandum  of  payments.     1735. 

Navy.     Committee  of  Survey.     Memorandum  of  correspondence 

relating  to  supplies.     1722-1723. 
Holland: 

Mercantile  documents.     1660-.     8  pieces. 

ORIENTAUA 

Ceylon : 

Singhalese  manuscript.     Written  on  31  gilt-edged  palm  leaves. 

PERSONAL 

Bartley,  T.  W.     Letter  to  C.  W.  Cist.     1854,  Aug.  25.     A.  L.  S. 
Berrien,  John  McPherson.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.   Dearborn. 

1846,  Dec.  2.     A.  L.  S. 

Binney,  Horace.     Letter  to  William  C.  Wilde.     1852,  May  21. 
Bonner,  Robert.     Letter  to  George  P.  Morris.     1860,  Aug.  22.     A.  L.  S. 
Brayman,  Mason.     Letter  to  E.  A.  Parker.      1865,  Sep.  3.     Contem- 
porary copy. 

Bristow,  Benjamin  H.     Letter  to  Carl  Schurz.     1877,  Oct.  15.     A.  L.  S. 
Brown,  James  (of  New  Orleans,  La.)     Letters  and  papers  of  a  legal 

and  commercial  nature,  with  some  family  letters.     1777-1810.     352 

pieces. 
Burgoyne,  John.     State  of   the  Expedition  from  Canada.     London". 

1780.     Pamphlet  with  Clinton's  annotations. 

Burr,  Aaron.     Letters  relating  to  conspiracy.      1806-1816.     i  vol. 
Calhoun,  William  B.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn.     1844, 

Mar.  26.     A.  L.  S. 
Campbell,  George  W.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn.     1822, 

Mar.  16.     A.  L.  S. 
Cass,  Lewis.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn,   1833,  Feb.   19. 

A.  L.  S.;  to  Hugh  S.  Legare,  1842,  May  16.     A.  L.  S. 
Cater,  Douglas  J.     Letters  to  Mrs.  F.  S.  Cater.     1862-1865.     25  pieces. 
Cater,  Rufus  W.     Letters  to  Mrs.  F.  S.  Cater.     1859-1863.     25  pieces. 
Catesby,  M.     Letter  to  Dr.  J.  F.  Gronovius.     1844,  Dec.     A.  L.  S. 
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Chase,   Salmon   P.     Letters  to  Thomas  Hornbrook,   1861-1864,  and 

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Chauvin,    Jean    Jacques.     Petition    to    French    Minister   of  Justice. 

1798,  Oct.  13.     A.  D.  S. 
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Clinton,  Sir  Henry.     Narrative  of  expedition  with  Sir  Peter  Parker 

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Corwin,  Thomas.     Private  correspondence.     1850-1853.      12  vols. 
Crawford,  George  W.     Resignation  as  Secretary  of  War.      1850,  July 

10.     Draft.     Announcement  to  Army  of  death  of  President  Taylor. 

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Hoar,  1869,  Nov.  22.     L.  S. 
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Dearborn,  Henry.     Letter  to  Henry  Dearborn,  jr.      1808,  Mar.  27;  to 

William  Duane,  1818,  Oct.  7.     A.  L.  S. 
Dickins,  Asbury  and  Francis  A.     Miscellaneous  papers.     3  scrapbook 

volumes. 
Eaton,  John  H.     Letters  to  Henry  Clay,  1825,  Mar.  31  and  Apr.  i. 

Auto,  drafts. 

Edmunds,  George  F.     Letter  to  William  Bond  &  Son.      1875,  Oct.  26. 
Everett,  Edward.     Letter  to  G.  Lunt.      1862,  July  12.     A.  L.  S. 
Ewing,  Thomas.     Letters  to  Peter  Benson,  1832,  Nov.  14;  to  George 

W.  Crawford,    1849,  July  2$;    to  Richard  Smith,  1833,  Oct.  14;   to 

William  Bibb  and  others,    1835,   Sept.    i;   to ?,  1833,  Jan.  9. 

A.  Ls.  S. 
Franklin,   Benjamin,   Arthur  Lee,  and  John  Adams.      To  American 

prisoners    at    Forton    Prison,  England,    1778,   Sept.    19.      Contem- 
porary copy. 
Fuller,  Timothy.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn,  1824,  Mar.  25. 

A.  L.  S. 

Gallatin,  Albert.     Correspondence,  1801-1811.      I  vol. 
Garrison,  Wendell  P.     Correspondence,  1905-1906.     9  pieces. 
Gorham,   Benjamin.     Letter  to  Gen.   Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn,   1829, 

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Grant,  James.     Papers  relating  to  claim  against  South  Carolina  citi- 
zens, 1794-1797.     7  pieces. 

Haines,  Hiram.     Literary  papers,  poems,  etc.     i  vol. 
Harlan,  James.     Letter  to  John  Wentworth.     1871,  Mar.  31.     A.L.  S. 
Henry,  John.     Papers  relating  to  New  England  intrigue,  1809-1812. 

94  pieces. 

Hicks,  Thomas.     Letter  to  —      —  Woodcock.     1686.     A.  L.  S. 
Huntington,  Samuel,  jr.     Letter  to  Rev.  BMward  D.  Griffin.      1801, 

Mar.  4.     A.  L.  S. 
Jackson,  Andrew.     Papers  relating  to  Glasgow  land  frauds,   North 

Carolina.     1797,  Dec.     Typewritten  copies. 
Jenkins,   Charles   J.,   and   others.     Letter   to   George  W.   Crawford. 

1845,  Feb.  17,  and  letter  explaining  same. 
Johnson,  Cave.     Letter  to  James  Dunlap.     1864,  May  25.     A.  L.  S. 


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Johnson,  Herschel  Vespasian.     Letter  to  Richard  M.  Johnson.     1847, 

Dec.  10.     A.  L.  S. 

Jones,  William.     Letter  to  Nathaniel  Silsbee.     1816,  Sept.  15.     A.  L.  S. 
Jones,  Gov.  Willie  and  Allen.     Coat  of  arms.     Illuminated  on  vellum. 
Kennedy,  John  P.     Letter  to  George  E.  Badger.     1841,  Sept.  9. 
Kent,  James.     Commissions,    diplomas,  etc.     1781-1823.     16   parch- 
ments. 
King,  Daniel  P.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn.     1841,  Jan.  19. 

A.  L.  S. 
King,   John  Pendleton.     Letter  to  James  Thomas.     1835,  Aug.   15. 

A.  L.  S. 

Kingsbury,  Jacob.     Letters,  1727-1815.     358  pieces. 
Lamar,  Gazaway  B.     Letters  to  George  W.  Crawford.      1849,  June, 

and  1850,  Apr.  10.     A.  Ls.  S. 
Lee,  Charles.     Memoirs.     London,  1792.     Annotations  of  Sir  Henry 

Clinton,     i  vol. 

Legare,  Hugh  S.     Letter  to  —    — ?     1840,  June  12.     A.  L.  S. 
Leveson-Gower,  Granville.     Letter  to  —    — ?     1686.     A.  L.  S. 
Lewis,  John.     Papers  relating  to  civil  cases,  military  matters  of  the 

Revolution,  etc.     1754-1823. 
Lincoln,  Abraham.     Bill  of  complaint  of  James  H.   Bagley  against 

Isaac  D.  Vanmeter.     Oct.,  1843.     A.  D.  S. 
Lincoln  &  Herndon.     Declaration  in  case  of  Henry  McHenry  vs. 

Hiram  Penny.     1850,  August  term,  Sangamon  Co.,  Ills.     A.  D.  S. 

of  Lincoln. 
McClellan,  Archibald.     Grant  of  land  in  South  Carolina.     1770.     D.  S. 

of  Gov.  William  Bull. 
Markoe,    Francis.     Correspondence.     About  5,000  pieces,  including 

correspondence  of  Samuel  Galloway  and  Virgil  Maxcy. 

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Mason,  John  Y.     Letter  to  Henry  A.  Wise.     1844,  Mar.  15.     A.  L.  S. 
Newman,  Reuben  and  Alexander.     Grant  of  land  in  South  Carolina. 

1786.     D.  S.  of  Gov.  William  Moultrie. 
Olney,  James  N.     Letter  to  George  P.  Morris.     1860,  Mar.  30.     A. 

L.  S. 
Phillips,  Stephen  C.     Letter  to  Gen.   Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn.      1831, 

Aug.  20. 
Porter,  Peter  B.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn.     1813,  Sept. 

20.     A.  L.  S. 

Preston,  William  C.     Letter  to  —      —  Wilde.     1840,  Mar.  29.    A.  L.  S. 
Ramsay,   David.     History   of   the   American    Revolution.      London. 

1791.     With  annotations  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton,     i  vol. 
Ramsey,  Alexander.     Letter  to  Thomas  H.  Burrowes.     1838,  Sept.  4. 

A.  L.  S. 
Richardson,  William  A.     Letter  to  N.  K.  Sanderson.     1884,  June  22. 

A.  L  S. 

Robertson,  Thomas  B.     Letter  to  Fulwar  Skipwith.     1820,  Feb.  23. 
Rockwell,  Julius.     Letter  to  George  Bancroft.    1845,  Apr.  10.    A.  L.  S. 


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Rush,  Richard.     Letter  to  Albert  Gallatin.     1822,  Aug.  15.     A.  L.  vS. 

Russell,  Jonathan.     Letter  to  —    — ?     1812,  Feb.  8.     A.  L.  S. 

Sarmau,  W.  II.     Letter  to  —     — ?     1828.     A.  L.  S. 

Savage,  John.      Letter  to  George  P.  Morris.      1861,  July  31.     A.  L.  S. 

Scarlett,  James.     Legal  opinion.     1829.     A.  D.  S. 

Silsbee,   Nathaniel.     Letter  to   Gen.   Henry  A.   S.    Dearborn.      1818, 

Mar.  22.      A.  L.  VS. 

Smith,  E.  Kirby.     Letter  to  Captain  Tupper.      1 86 1,  Sept.  4.     A.  L.  S. 
Stephens,  Alexander  H.     Letters  to  George  W.  Crawford,  1846-1849. 

3  pieces.     To  James  Thomas,  .1844-1853.     5  pieces.     A.  Ls.  S. 
Stiles,   Robert.     Grant  of   land   in   Georgia.     1805.     D.   S.   of  Gov. 

John  Milledge. 
Sturges,  William,  and  Henry  Ellison.     Indenture  of  land  transfer  in 

South  Carolina.     1786. 
Taylor,  Zachary.     Letters  of. 

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Thomas,  Lorenzo.     Letter   to   F.  and  A.  H.  Dodge.     1848,  Jan.   12. 

A.  L.  S. 

Thompson,  Richard  W.     Letter  to  —     — ?     1848,  Aug.  10. 
Thorburn,  Grant.     Letter  to  George  P.  Morris.     1855,  June  16.    A.  L.  S. 
Thurston,  W.  S.     Letter  to  John  Johnson.     1790,  May  4.     A.  L.  S. 
Toombs,  Robert.    Letters  to  George  W.  Crawford,  1846-1862.     4  pieces. 

To  James  Thomas,  1847-1848.     3  pieces.     To  Johnson  &  Thomas. 

1848.     i  piece. 

Trumbull,  Jonathan.     Letter  to  —    — ?     1794,  Jan.  16.     A.  L.  S. 
Trumbull,  Lyman.     Papers  of..    3,700  pieces. 

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Twiggs,    David    Emanuel.     Letter   to   George   W.    Crawford.     1849, 

Sept.  8.     A.  L.  S. 

Tyler,  John.     Letter  to  Henry  A.  Wise.      1856,  Mar.     A.  L.  S. 
Vaughan,  Henry  Halford.     Letter  to  —      —  Stockdale.      1820.     Nov. 

18.     A.  L.  S. 
Washington,    George.     Virginia    Almanac   for    1767   with   autograph 

memoranda,     i  vol. 

Sec  pp.  25-26  of  this  Report. 

Pay  rolls,  receipts,  etc.,  of  Virginia  Colonial  troops.     1755-1756. 

260  pieces. 

Webster,  Daniel.     Letter  to  —      —  Sy mines.      1843,  Apr.  13. 
Welles,    Gideon.       Letters    to    Sherman    Croswell.       1831,    Feb.    23. 

A.  L.  S.;     to  —    — ?  1832,  Jan.  14.     A.  L.  S.;  to  Admiral  Andrew  H. 

Foote,  1863,  June  8.     D.  S. 
Welsman,    J.   T.      Letter  to  Stewart  L.  Woodford.      1865,   Apr.    21. 

Copy. 

Wikoff,  Henry.     Letter  to  George  P.  Morris.     1880,  July  14.     A.  L.  S. 
Windham,  Charles.     Letter  to  his  sister.     1744,  Nov.  27.     A.  L.  S. 
Windham,  Mary.      Letters.      1745-1746.      A.  Ls.  S.     2  pieces. 
Winthroj),  Robert  C.     Letter  to  Gen.  Henry  A.  S.  Dearborn.      1X40, 

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Wise,  Henry  A.     Letter  to  Leslie  Combs.     1842,  Dec.  29.     A.  L.  S. 
Wood,  Charles.     Receipt  to  Henry  Northleigh.     1659,  Dec.  24. 
Woodford,  Stewart  L.     Letter  to  J.  T.  Welsman.     1865,  Apr.  29.     L.  S. 
Wright,  James.     Bill  of  complaint  and  answer  in  suit.     Delaware, 

1709,  Mar.  26. 
Yancey,   Charles.     Letter  to  George   W.    Crawford.     1850,  June  17. 

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Drama: 

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Antrim,  B.  Jay.     Journals  and  diaries  of  travels  in  Mexico  and 

California,  1849.     Sketch  books,  etc.     5  vols. 
Forton  Prison,  England.     Diary  of  an  American  seaman,  1777- 

1779.     Book  of  songs  written  in  the  prison,  1778.     2  vols. 
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1777-1778,  June  8-27,  Oct.  17-24;  1780,  Oct.  i8-Nov.  9.     3  vols. 
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Anderson,  Margarite.      "International  Peace  Song"  and  "The 

Peace-Makers."     1905.     A.  D.  S. 

Di  Carlo,  Luigi.  Excerpts  from  poems,  1905.  ' '  Alia  grande  e 
celebre  Biblioteca  del  Congresso  in  Washington."  A.  D.  (In 
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Miscellaneous  broadsides.     1776-1784.     14  pieces. 

Plan  for  conducting  Hospital  department  of  the  Army.     1780, 

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Knox,  Henry.    Plan  for  general  arrangement  of  the  militia.    1 786 
Adams,  John  Quincy: 

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Order  of  funeral  procession.     1848. 
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1773,  Oct.  21. 

Butler,  Benjamin  F.     Letter  to  George  H.  Briggson  "The  Salary 
Grab."     1873,  July  28.     To  Judge  Ebenezer  R.  Hoar,  a  "reply 
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Proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905. 
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Salem,  Election,  1812. 
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Anti-Jackson  political  address  to  the  Farmers  and  Mechanics  of 
New  Hampshire.     1828. 


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New  Mexico: 

Proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905. 
North  Carolina: 

Rules  regulating  market  prices.     1864. 
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Nesmith,  James,   jr.     Against  J.  Quinn  Thornton.     Oregon  City. 

1847,  June  7. 
Pennsylvania : 

Proclamation  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  1905. 

Philadelphia.     Election  of  Representatives  and  Presidential  Elec- 
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Prohibition.     Campaign  posters:  "Two  Roads  to  Washington"  and 

"Grand  Rally  for  Prohibition."     n.  d.     2  pieces. 
Smith,  Horace  J.     Suggests  a  legend  for  tablet  commemorating  the 

jury  in  the  trial  of  William  Penn  and  William  Mead,  1670,  to  be 

placed  in  Old  Bailey,  London. 
"Thermopylae."     Advertisement  of   Greek  newspaper  published  in 

New  York.     1905. 
Wool.     Table  of  importations  into  London  and  Liverpool.     1806. 

FACSIMILES,  ETC. 

Fawkes,  Guy.     Indentures  with  Christopher  Lomleye  and  Anne  Ship- 

leye  for  transfer  of  property,  1592-93. 
Agreement  between  Anne  Shipleye  and  Dionisius  Bainbridge, 

159-.     In  Latin.     Photo-facsimiles  of  3  parchments. 
Massachusetts.     Photographs  of  3   Revolutionary  broadsides,   1776- 
1777. 

III.  LIST  OF  TRANSCRIPTS  FROM  MANUSCRIPTS  IN  THE 
BRITISH  MUSEUM  AND  THE  PUBLIC  RECORD  OFFICE, 
GREAT  BRITAIN 

British  Museum  (Additional  MSS.): 

14034.  America,   Africa,  and  the  Canaries,  &  the  West  Indies 

1696-1786. 

9747.  America,  Papers  relating  to.     1698-1705. 
22680.  America,  Miscellaneous  Papers  relating  to,  &c. 

14035.  Board  of  Trade  and  Plantations      1710-1789. 


138  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

British  Museum  (Additional  MSS.): 

Egerton  MSS. : 

2395 •  Igt  portion,  folios  237. 

Folios  238-453. 
Folios  454  to  end. 

2168.  Inventory  of  Papers  of  William  Penn. 

2526.  Journals  of  J.  Knepp  on  H.  M.  S.  Rose,  &c.     1683-1684. 

2135.  Letters  and  Papers  relating  to  the  War  in  America. 

1771-1781. 

15485.  Exports  and  Imports  of  North  America.     1768-9. 
Hardwicke  Papers: 

35909.  American  Plantations.     Vol.  DLXI.     [Two  Maps  ac- 

company this.] 

35910.  American  Plantations.     Vol.  DLXII.     1759-1764. 

35911.  American  Plantations.     Vol.  DLXIII.     1765. 
Hyde  Papers  and  Correspondence: 

15895.  1688-1709. 

Folios  339-365. 
15898.  Miscellaneous. 

America  and  the  West  Indies. 
Kings  MSS. : 

213.  Journal  of  an  Officer  in  the  West  Indies:  1764-65. 

203.  Letters,  Rev.  Dr.  Cooper  to  Dr.  Franklin,  1769-1775. 

American  Politics. 
202.  Letters,  Governor  Pownall  to  Rev.  Dr.  Cooper,  1769- 

1774,  on  American  Politics. 
206.  State  of  Manufactures;  Land,  mode  of  granting;  Fees 

of  Offices  in  America. 
205.  Reports  on  the  state  of  the  American  Colonies,     (ist 

installment.) 

15483.   List  of  Councils  in  North  America.      1703-1711. 
22129.  Official  Appointments,  List  of ,  1780. 

15488.  Maine.     Kennebec  River,  1752-1762. 

15487.  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut,  Boundary  line  of,  1735- 

1754- 

15486.  Massachusetts,  Papers  relating  to,  1720-1724. 
11514.   Memorial  to  Lord  Halifax  on  North  America. 

22617.   Navy,  Official  Papers  relating  to.     1688-1715.     (Br.  Mu.: 

Add.  Mss.  22617,  folios  134-149.) 
New  Castle  Papers: 

33028.  America  and  the  West  Indies.     Vol.  I.     1701-1740. 

33029.  Vol.  CCCXLIV.    America  and  the  West  Indies.    Vol. 

II.     1744-1758. 

33030.  Vol.  CCXLV.    America  and  the  West  Indies.    Vol.  III. 

1761-1802,  and  undated. 
28089.  New  England,  &c.     I7th  Century. 

15489.  New  Hampshire,  Rhode  Island,  Pa.,  Md.,  N.  Y.,  &c. 
22679.  New  York,  1764-1768. 


Manuscripts — List  of  Transcripts  139 

British  Museum  (Additional  MSS.): 

11411.  Povey,  T.     Register  of  Letters  relating  to  the  West  Indies, 

1655-1660. 

15896.  Revenue  and  Customs.     Vol.  V.  1679-1705. 
9764.  Shipping    and    Trade.     (All    papers    selected    relate    to 

America. ) 
Public  Record  Office: 

Admiralty  High  Court: 

Instance  &  Prize  Libel  Files.     Bundle  73,  80,  81,  82,  88,  91- 

94,  98,  107,  108:     Various  Nos. 

.     Boscawen,  Admiral.     Letters  of  (ist  Section  only).     In  Let- 
ters, No.  481. 

Boscawen.     In  Letters,  481  (Sections  2  and  3). 
Admiralty  Secretary: 

Hood,  Commodore.     In  Letters,  483  (ist  installment). 
Admiralty  Secretary: 

In  Letters  482,  (First  section). 

In  Letters,  483  (Second  section,  completes  the  volume). 
In   Letters,   485    (continuation  and   end).     Admirals'     Des- 
patches. 

North  America.     Admiral  Graves,  1774-7. 
Warren,  Admiral.     In  Letters,  480  (ist  section  only). 
Treasury : 

37  &  38.     Blaythwayt's  Journal.     (Complete.) 


APPENDIX    V 

DIVISION  OF   PRINTS 


Collection    of    prints,    original    drawings,   water-color 
paintings,  and  illustrated  books  by  cele- 
brated Japanese   artists 

Given  by  Mr.  Crosby  S.  Noyes, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

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Appendix  V 

CORRESPONDENCE  IN  REGARD  TO  COLLECTION  OP  PRINTS,  ETC., 
GIVEN  BY  MR.  CROSBY  S.  NOYES 

Washington,  D.  C.,  October  ij,  1905 

My  DEAR  SIR:  The  collection  of  Japanese  pictures,  en- 
gravings, illustrated  books,  etc.,  which  I  hereby  tender  to 
the  Congressional  library,  Washington,  D.  C.,  will,  I  think, 
serve  to  supply  in  some  degree  an  illustration  of  the  extra- 
ordinary variety  in  Japanese  art  and  an  instructive  and 
timely  insight  into  the  history,  legends,  religions,  industries, 
amusements,  folklore,  fauna  and  flora,  scenery,  drama,  and 
all  the  wide  range  of  art  motives  of  the  wonderful  people 
who  are  just  now  the  center  of  world  interest. 

A  study  of  the  many-sided  Japanese  character  develops 
sharp  contrasts  at  every  turn.  A  visit  to  Japan  in  time  of 
peace  gives  the  impression  of  a  gentle,  refined,  light-hearted, 
artistic,  peaceable,  pleasure-loving,  rather  frivolous  people, 
with  a  passionate  love  for  flowers,  fine  scenery,  and  all  that 
is  beautiful  in  nature;  nice  and  dainty  in  their  tastes,  carry- 
ing their  habits  of  personal  and  household  cleanliness  to  the 
extreme,  and  spending  a  considerable  portion  of  their  time 
in  enervating  hot  baths. 

Again,  seen  in  their  almost  continuous  round  of  festivals 
throughout  the  year,  they  seem  to  be  holding  a  perpetual 
holiday. 

Another  turn,  and  beholding  them  swarming  in  the  rice 
fields,  the  tea  plantations,  the  vegetable  and  flower  gardens, 
the  workshops,  the  fisheries,  and  the  schoolrooms,  and  all 
Japan  seems  to  be  an  industrial  beehive,  and  every  man, 
woman,  and  child  at  work  or  in  study. 

Then  war  comes,  and  these  same  gentle,  peaceable,  vola- 
tile, undersized  sybarites  are  transformed  in  a  twinkling 
into  heroic  warriors  of  fanatical  courage,  unparalleled  forti- 
tude, stoical  endurance  of  pain,  intense  tenacity  of  purpose, 

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and  self-sacrificing  devotion  to  country  that  has  never  been 
surpassed  in  the  history  of  the  world. 

The  stronger  and  nobler  qualities  of  the  Japanese  have 
been  persistently  underrated  by  most  writers. 

Pierre  lyOti  in  his  * '  Madame  Chrysantheme  ' '  character- 
izes them  as  chattering  monkeys,  interesting  only  for  their 
quaintness  and  comicality. 

Even  Sir  Edwin  Arnold,  their  ardent  admirer,  while  laud- 
ing "  their  charming  courtesy,  their  exquisite  arts,  and  their 
almost  divine  sweetness  of  disposition,"  ends  by  rating  them 
as  ' '  butterflies  ' '  with  no  serious  purpose  in  life. 

Basil  Hall  Chamberlain,  in  ' '  Things  Japanese, ' '  while  cor- 
dially joining  with  Sir  Edwin  Arnold  in  laudation  of  their 
art,  courtesy,  and  sweetness  of  temper,  also  accepts  his  esti- 
mate of  the  people  as  ' '  pretty  weaklings. ' ' 

Miss  E.  R.  Scidmore,  however,  a  thoughtful  and  acute 
observer  of  Japanese  life  and  character,  in  her  delightful 
"Jinrickisha  Days  in  Japan,"  while  characterizing  the  Japa- 
nese as  "the  enigma  of  this  century;  the  most  inscrutable, 
the  most  paradoxical  of  races,"  and  setting  forth  duly  the 
volatile  and  apparently  frivolous  side  of  the  Japanese  char- 
acter, dwells  with  emphasis  upon  its  contrasting  solid  qual- 
ities of  wisdom,  dignity,  nobility,  thoughtfulness,  and  con- 
scientiousness. At  moments,  she  says,  they  appear  to  be  a 
trifling,  superficial,  fantastic  people,  bent  on  nothing  but 
pleasing  effects;  "and  again,  the  Occidental  is  a  babe  before 
the  deep  mysteries,  the  innate  wisdom,  the  philosophies, 
the  art,  the  thought,  the  subtle  refinements  of  this  charming 
people,  who  so  quickly  win  the  admiration,  sympathy,  and 
affection  of  the  stranger. ' ' 

Their  art,  as  well  as  character,  is  notable  for  its  diversity 
and  strong  contrasts.  In  its  different  schools — academic, 
realistic,  and  impressionist — it  is  by  turns  vigorous,  grace- 
ful, grotesque,  weird,  decorative,  refined,  intense,  dainty, 
and  poetic.  It  is  distinguished  by  the  exquisite  beauty  of 
its  color  harmonies,  delicate  gradations  of  tone,  subtle  fine- 
ness of  touch  contrasted  with  bold  directness  of  method;  for 
the  delicacy,  accuracy,  and  at  the  same  time  the  vigor  of  its 
line  "ranging  from  hairbreadth  to  the  width  of  an  inch." 
It  has  been  well  described  as  "a  combination  of  delicate 
grace,  infallible  accuracy,  and  unostentatious  verve,  the 


Division  of  Prints — Noyes  Collection  145 

same  brush  wielded  with   admirable  strength,  and  reveling 
in  microscopic  elaboration  of  detail." 

And  Japanese  art,  as  well  as  character,  has  been  misunder- 
stood and  misrepresented. 

Sir  Rutherford  Alcock,  in  his  supercilious  and  superficial 
"Art  and  Art  industries  of  Japan,"  shows  his  profound 
ignorance  of  his  subject  when  he  quotes,  approvingly,  an 
"eminent  art  critic  "  of  his  acquaintance  as  declaring  that 
' '  the  Japanese  artists  do  not  appear  to  know  what  beauty 
is  in  the  human  form,"  that  "there  does  not  seem  to  be  the 
least  trace  of  sentiment  or  kindness  between  the  human 
specimens  of  the  race.  They  all  look  at  each  other  hate- 
fully, spitefully,  absurdly.  I  do  not  understand  it!  An  art 
which  is  blind  to  beauty,  virtue,  pathos,  piety— everything 
charming  and  elevating  in  man." 

And  Sir  Rutherford  Alcock  adds  that  he  is  compelled  to 
agree  with  his  friend,  the  "eminent  art  critic,"  in  his  con- 
demnatory verdict. 

Now  the  art  of  the  Japanese — the  gentlest  as  well  as  the 
bravest  of  human  kind — has  been  applied  all  through  its 
history  to  the  illustration  of  the  tender  relations  between 
parents  and  children,  the  devoted  affection  of  friends — to 
portraying  acts  of  heroism,  virtue,  piety,  fervid  patriotism, 
and  ready  sacrifice  of  life  to  duty,  honor,  friendship,  and  in 
behalf  of  country. 

A  well-informed  writer  on  Japanese  art  says,  in  ' '  The 
Collector  and  Art  Critic: "  "  Back  of  all  Japanese  art  lies 
the  Oriental  mind,  which  revels  in  symbolism,  in  allegory, 
teaching  some  virtue  or  moral  in  pretty  poetic  fancy,  a 
reminder  of  some  historical  heroism  held  up  as  an  example 
or  some  historical  iniquity  held  up  as  a  warning. ' ' 

This  tender,  sympathetic  side  of  Japanese  character  dis- 
plays itself  all  through  its  art. 

Hotei,  the  jolly  Japanese  Santa  Claus,  appears  every- 
where surrounded  by  a  troop  of  joyous,  laughing  children. 
"  The  Aged  Couple  of  Takasaga,"  the  personification  of 
serene,  harmonious  conjugal  happiness,  enjoyed  together 
through  a  long  life  in  "John  Anderson  my  Jo"  fashion, 
figure  constantly  in  Japanese  art,  and  the  picture  of  this 
benign  old  couple  is  the  universal  wedding  present  given  to 
serve  as  an  inspiring  model  to  the  bridal  pair. 


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' '  The  One  Hundred  Examples  of  Filial  Piety  ' '  have  been 
the  perennial  subject  of  Japanese  art  from  time  immemorial. 

Hartmann,  in  the  same  line,  speaks  of  the  art  works  of 
the  Japanese  as  "  full  of  beauty  and  seem  the  natural  mani- 
festation of  serene,  contented,  and  happy  minds." 

This  feeling  of  warm  affection  is  expressed  continuously 
in  the  exquisite  pictorial  devices  styled  surimono,  circulated 
among  friends  on  festival  occasions  and  commemorative 
greetings  in  private  life,  corresponding  to  our  Christmas, 
New  Year  and  birthday  cards  which  are  decorated  in  the 
most  dainty  and  charming  manner  with  tokens  expressive 
of  tender  love  and  good  wishes  for  the  happiness,  prosperity, 
and  longevity  of  the  recipient. 

An  effective  moral  lesson  is  taught  in  one  of  the  com- 
monest representations  in  Japanese  art — that  of  the  group 
of  three  monkeys,  where  the  first  screens  his  eyes  with 
his  hands,  the  second  his  ears,  and  the  third  his  mouth,  to 
show  that  we  should  never  see,  hear,  nor  speak  evil. 

The  sad  story  of  the  unhappy  Ono-No-Kumachi,  com- 
mencing with  her  career  as  a  reigning  beauty,  a  popular 
poet,  then  the  successive  stages  of  her  downfall  to  a  condi- 
tion of  beggary  and  abject  misery,  ending  with  death  from 
starvation,  is  depicted  with  infinite  pathos  by  Japanese 
artists. 

Everywhere  in  art,  literature,  and  the  drama  the  story  is 
told  of  "The  Forty-Seven  Ronins,"  the  devoted  band  who 
cheerfully  sacrificed  their  lives  to  the  protection  of  the  honor 
of  their  chieftain  and  to  the  work  of  bringing  to  punishment 
the  perfidious  miscreant  responsible  for  his  death. 

Now,  as  to  their  artistic  blindness  to  beauty  in  human 
form.  Mr.  S.  Hartmann,  author  of  "A  History  of  Ameri- 
can Art,"  and  a  recognized  authority  upon  art  matters,  says 
in  his  work  on  "Japanese  Art:"  "The  Japanese  artists  see 
in  women  a  glorification  of  all  beautiful  things."  Other 
competent  writers  upon  Japanese  art  have  dwelt  upon  the 
work  of  special  artists  in  this  line — of  Sukenobu,  Haron- 
olm,  and  Hokusai,  noted  for  the  singular  grace  and  refine- 
ment with  which  they  invested  the  female  figure;  of  Yeishi, 
Yeizan,  and  Yeisen,  who  devoted  their  art  almost  exclu- 
sively to  the  charms  and  graces  of  Japanese  womanhood; 


Division  of  Prints — Noyes  Collection  147 

of  Utamaro,  characterized  as  ' '  the  greatest  painter  of  Japan- 
ese women,"  and  noted  for  "the  infinite  tenderness  and 
grace,  the  exquisite  beauty  and  delicacy  of  forms  and  flow- 
ing lines  with  which  he  rendered  his  subjects." 

And  this  is  the  art  which  Sir  Rutherford  Alcock  asserts 
is  "blind  to  beauty,  virtue,  pathos,  piety,  everything  charm- 
ing and  elevating  in  man ! ' ' 

It  is  the  art  that,  as  Miss  Scidmore  says,  "has  already 
revolutionized  the  western  world,  leaving  its  impress  every- 
where. ' ' 

It  is  the  art  that  taught  Whistler  his  exquisite  draughts- 
manship and  brush  work,  subtle  gradations  of  tone  and  dainty 
color  harmonies;  the  art  from  which  Manet  and  the  French 
school  of  impressionists  got  their  inspiration,  and  that,  as 
Hartmann  declares,  has  influenced  the  several  lines  of  work 
of  Whistler,  Manet,  Degas,  Skarbina,  the  German  Seces- 
sionists, Puvis  de  Chavannes,  D.  W.  Tryon,  Steinlein  and 
Monet;  and  he  adds  "that  nearly  two-thirds  of  all  painters 
who  have  become  prominent  during  the  last  twenty  years 
have  learned  in  one  instance  or  another  from  the  Japanese. ' ' 

That  preeminent  authority  in  matters  Japanese,  Capt.  F. 
Brinkley,  in  his  admirable  work  upon  "Japan;  Its  History, 
Arts,  and  literature,"  says  of  Japanese  art  that  it  "displays 
remarkable  directness  of  method  and  strength  of  line;  that 
the  artist  knows  exactly  what  he  wants  to  draw  and  draws 
it  with  unerring  fidelity  and  force;  that  the  very  outlines  of 
the  picture  are  in  themselves  a  picture,  and  that  the  whole 
is  pervaded  by  an  atmosphere  of  refinement,  tenderness,  and 
grace. ' ' 

It  is  the  art  that  drew  from  John  Leighton  more  than 
forty  years  ago  a  tribute  to  the  ' '  marvelous  skill ' '  of  the 
Japanese  artists;  that  Edward  F.  Strange  in  "Japanese 
Illustrations":  characterizes  as  "the  delightful  arts  of 
Japan ' '  and  says  ' '  as  mere  arrangements  of  decorative  color 
they  are  generally  superb;  as  exercises  in  composition, 
they  are  in  the  aggregate  unsurpassed. ' ' 

What  is  to  be  the  future  of  this  remarkable  people?  This 
is  the  great  problem  now  before  the  world.  The  pursuit  of 
this  inquiry  will  necessarily  lead  to  a  close  study  of  the 
antecedents  of  the  Japanese;  their  history,  life,  manners 


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and  customs,  industries  and  arts,  and  it  is  believed  that 
this  collection  will  afford  the  inquirer  a  considerable  amount 
of  information. 

I  hope  to  be  able  to  add  in  my  lifetime  to  the  interest 
and  importance  of  the  exhibit  here  presented. 
Sincerely  yours 

CROSBY  S.  NOYES 
Honorable  HERBERT  PUTNAM 

Librarian  of  the  Congressional  Library 

Washington,  D.  C. 

WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  October  18,  1905 
My  dear  Mr.  NOYES: 

I  have  received  your  communication,  making  formal 
tender  of  the  gift  to  the  Library  of  your  collection  of 
Japanese  pictures,  engravings,  illustrated  books,  etc.,  which 
have  been  for  several  months  in  our  possession,  but  are  only 
now  formally  transferred.  Pray  believe  our  acceptance  and 
acknowledgment  as  cordial  as  we  desire  them  to  be  prompt. 

Your  letter  of  gift  indicates  most  interestingly  the  sig- 
nificance of  the  collection  in  reflecting  the  life,  as  it  reflects 
the  art,  of  Japan;  and  makes  clear  that  Japanese  art  not 
merely  exhibits  an  artistic  facility,  but  embodies  an  ethical 
spirit.  With  your  permission,  we  shall  be  glad  to  publish 
the  letter  in  connection  with  the  announcement  of  the  gift. 

The  intrinsic  interest  of  the  material  is  greatly  enhanced 
to  this  Library  by  the  fact  that  it  represents  on  your  part 
many  years  of  careful  and  devoted  accumulation  not  merely 
in  this  country  and  in  Europe  but  in  Japan  itself.  We  are 
gratified  at  your  intimation  that  it  is  to  be  further  added  to 
in  the  future. 

It  will  immediately  be  prepared  for  exhibit.  With  its 
first  exhibit  we  shall  associate  with  it  some  of  other  subjects 
of  art  which  you  have  lent  to  us — the  netsukes,  etc. — which 
will  reinforce  it  by  their  further  illustration  of  the  achieve- 
ments of  Japanese  art. 

With  high  regard  and  appreciation,  I  am. 
Faithfully  yours 

(vSigned)         HERBERT  PUTNAM 

Librarian  of  Congress 

Hon.  CROSBY  S.   NOYES 

The  Washington  Star^   Washington. 


COLLECTION  OF  PRINTS,  ORIGINAL  DRAWINGS,  WATER-COLOR  PAINT- 
INGS,  AND  ILLUSTRATED  BOOKS  BY  CELEBRATED  JAPANESE 
ARTISTS 


Given  by  Mr.  CROSBY  S.  NOYES,  Washington,  D.  C. 

I.   PRINTS 
Buncho  (died  1796) 

Man  and  woman  with  a  bird. 
Chog-aku. 

Feast  in  a  tea-house. 
Harunobu  Suzuki  (1705-1772) 

Mother  and  child  catching  crickets. 

Picking  tea-leaves. 

Woman  with  lantern  ascending  stairway,  while  another  woman 
looks  at  her  from  a  window. 

Woman  beating  a  man  with  a  smoker's  pipe. 
Hirokage. 

Drunken  party   returning    from    a    feast    at    Shinobazu   Pond, 

(Tokyo)  ' 

Hiroshig-e  I.     (1793-1859) 

Portrait  of  a  woman.      (Takao) 

Daimyo. 

(a)  Gathering  shellfish,     (b)  Fish  in  tubs. 

Geisha  girl. 

Painting  the  interior  of  large  kettle. 

Procession  of  a  princess  in  Yedo. 

Akasaka  on  the  Tokaido. 

Fujikawa  on  the  Tokaido. 

Kakegawa  on  the  Tokaido.     (Crossing  the  bridge) 

landscape,  with  Mount  Fuji  in  the  distance. 

Mount  Fuji  seen  from  Miho  Bay. 

Public  road  by  the  sea. 

Shono  on  the  Tokaido. 

Street  in  Kanagawa.     (On  the  Tokaido) 

View  of  Mount  Fuji  from  Nihon  bridge,  Yedo. 

Crawfish. 

Fish. 

Nightingale  and  Japonica  flower. 

Plum  tree  and  bird. 

Two  fish.     (Ayu) 

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150  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

Hiroshig-e  I.     (i793-l859) 
Two  turtles. 
"Fifty-three  views  of  the  Tokaido. " 

Kawasaki.     No.  3. 

Kanagawa.     No.  4. 

Totsuka.     No.  6. 

Fujisawa.     No.  7. 

Hiratsuka.     No.  8. 

Oiso.     No.  9. 

Odawara.     No.  10. 

Hakone.     No.  n. 

Mishima.     No.  12. 

Numazu.     No.  13. 

Hara.     No.  14. 

Yoshiwara.     No.  15. 

Kambara.     No.  16. 

Yui.     No.  17. 

Yejiri.     No.  19. 

Fuchu.     No.  20. 

Mariko.     No.  21. 

Okabe.     No.  22, 

Kanaya.     No.  24. 

Nitsaka.     No.  25. 

Okawa.     No.  26. 

Fukuroi.     No.  27. 

Mitsuke.     No.  28. 

Hamamatsu.     No.  29. 

Gioyu.     No.  35. 

Akasaka.     No.  36. 

Chiriu.     No.  39. 

Narumi.     No.  40. 

Yokkaichi.     No.  42. 

Ishiyakushi.     No.  44. 
"Celebrated  Views  of  Yedo." 

Bridge  over  the  Sumida  River. 

Moonlight  on  the  Suniida  River. 

View  of  the  sea  from  Takanawa. 

Mussel  gathering  at  Susaki. 

Plum  tree  season  at  Kameido. 

Rain  at  Nippon  bridge. 

Snow  at  Nippon  bridge  (Morning) 

Street  scene  in  Yoshiwara. 

Takata. 

Tetpozu. 

View  of   Mount    Fuji    from    the    O    bridge;    boat    in    fore- 
ground. 

Yeitai  bridge. 


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Hiroshige  II. 

Benten  Temple  at  Inokashira. 

Rain  storm.     Traveler  taking  refuge  in  a  shop. 
Hokuba  (1770-1844) 

Fish  suspended  over  a  fire. 
Hokusai  (1760-1849) 

God  of  Fortune  (Hotel) 

Yoji  blowing  his  astral  body  into  the  air. 

Portrait  of  Otomo-no  Kuronushi,  a  poet. 

Children  teasing  a  mad  woman. 

Drinking  tea. 

Drying  the  cloth. 

Four  awake. 

L,ady  holding  a  musical  instrument  (Koto) 

L/ady  taking  off  her  court  costume. 

Lumbermen  sawing  wood  in  the  mountains  of  Totomi  district. 

Making  tea  while  tea-leaves  are  dried  before  the  fire. 

Making  pudding  for  the  May  festival. 

Mother  playing  with  baby. 

"No"  dancers. 

Peasant  woman  carrying  bundle  on  which  rests  a  kite. 

Travelers  crossing  river  on  men's  backs. 

Woman  carrying  bow  and  arrows  covered  by  flag. 

Woman  'holding  a  rooster  while  child  gives  it  drink  from  a  bowl. 

Woman  making  paper  band  for  the  hair. 

Woman  washing  cloths  by  the  River  Tama. 

Women  procuring  water  at  the  spring,  while  coolies  pass  with  a 
burden. 

Wrestler  holding  up  a  bale  of  rice. 

Kite. 

Scenes  from  the  play,  "Chushingura." 

Acts  I-XII.     (Two  scenes  from  Act  XII) 

Waterfall  of  Aoi-no-oka. 

Completing  the  pilgrimage  by  climbing  sacred  Fuji. 

Mannen  bridge  of  Fukagawa,  Yedo. 

Mount  Fuji  from  a  junk  sailing  from  Kazusa  to  Yedo. 

Fuji  from  a  Buddhist  temple.     (Honganji) 

Mount  Fuji  from  Misaka  town  among  hills  of  Koshin. 

Mount  Fuji  from  Senju  town  in  Musashi. 

Mount  Fuji  from  the  Bay  of  Ejiri. 

Mount  Fuji  from  the  country  at  Umesawa,  Sagami. 

Mount  Fuji  from  Enza-Matsu,  Aoyama,  Yedo. 

Mount  Fuji  from  the  old  mill  at  Indin. 

Mount  Fuji  from  the  shore  at  Tamagawa. 

View  of  sea  of  Kanagawa,  on  the  Tokaido. 

Waterfall  of  Mount  Kurokami. 

Waterfall  of  Ono. 
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Hokusai  (1760-1849) 
Waterfall  of  Oyama. 

Waterfall  of  Yoro.  v 

'Waterfall  of  Yoshino. 
"  Scenes  on  the  Tokaido." 

Aral.      (Travelers  attended  by  carriers  crossing  a  mountain) 
Two  prints. 

Fujikawa  on  the  Tokaido.     (Travelers  on  horseback  crossing 
a  bridge) 

Gyoyu.     (Lady  making  her  toilet) 

Kameyama.     (Porters  resting) 

Kanaya.      (Mount  Fuji  in  the  distance) 

Kanbara.     (Fishermen  pulling  in  nets) 

Kawasaki.     (The  ferryboat) 

Okabe.     (Traveler  arriving  at  hotel) 

Shimada.     (Travelers  crossing  river) 

Shono.     (The  Feast) 

Yoshiwara.     (Making  cheese) 
"  Views  of  Lake  Biwa." 

Autumnal  moonlight  at  Ishiyama. 

Evening  Bell  of  Temple  Mil. 

Evening  glow  at  Seta. 

Evening  snowstorm  at  Hira. 

Nocturnal  rain  at  Karasaki. 

Return  of  fishing  boat  at  Yabashi. 

Summer  breeze  at  Awa/u. 

Wild  ducks  at  Katata. 
"Views  of  Mount  Fuji." 

Fukagawa  wood-yard. 

Man  fishing;  Kai  district. 

Mount  Fuji  from  the  sea;  shore  of  Shi  chin. 

Shimomeguro.     (Pilgrims  ascending  Mount  Fuji) 

Ushibari,  Hitachi.     Boat  in  the  marsh.     (Two  copies) 

Windstorm  at  Ejiri. 
Persimmon  and  grasshopper. 
Fish  in  a  pan. 

Kikumaro  Utagawa. 

Flower  in  pot.     ( Two  prints. ) 
Kiyomasu  (1679-1762) 
An  actor. 

Kiyomitsu  (1735-1785) 
An  actor. 

Caricature  of  an  actor. 
Girl  in  contemplation. 
Woman  reading  a  letter  on  veranda. 


Division  of  Prints — Noyes  Collection  153 

Kiyonaga  (1742-1815) 
Children  playing. 

Woman  lighting  a  lantern ;  man  smoking. 
Woman's  bathroom. 

Kiyonobu  (1664-1729) 
Family  promenade. 
Woman  painting  a  screen. 
Woman  with  an  umbrella;  child  beside  her. 

Kokushu. 

Taking  a  walk  in  cherry  blossom  season. 

Koriusai  (wk.  1760-1780) 
The  promenade. 

Two  women  walking;  one  holding  an  umbrella. 
Women  playing  ball. 

Kosiusai  (1728-1809) 
Children  at  play. 
Cock-fight. 

Kunichika  and  Yoshichika  (Contemporary) 
Women's  bathing-house. 

Kunihiro 

Woman  striking  a  drum  giving  the  signal  for  closing  the  gate  in 

Yoshiwara. 
Nightingales  in  cages;  plum  blossoms. 

Kunisada  (1785-1864) 

Seven  gods  of  fortune. 

Portrait  of  Nakamura  Utaroku,  an  actor. 

Dancing  girl  with  crown  and  fan. 

Girl  and  child  walking  in  the  moonlight. 

Girl  holding  a  fan. 

Girl  holding  umbrella;  snowing. 

Girl  playing  with  a  child. 

Mother  nursing  her  baby  protected  by  a  mosquito  net. 

Woman  in  street  attire. 

Woman  making  her  toilet. 

Woman  posing. 

Woman  standing  looking  over  left  shoulder. 

Woman  with  umbrella;  snow  in  background. 

Women  at  a  well. 

Young  boy  with  a  fan,  and  a  small  box  for  crickets. 

Kunitame  (attributed  to) 
Plum  blossoms. 

Kunitsuna  (wk.  mid.  igth  cent.) 
Courtyard  of  a  temple. 


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Kuniyasu,  Utagawa  (1802-1836) 

Yoshiwara  girl  with  an  attendant. 

Rainfall  at  Karasaki  (Eight  views  of  Lake  Biwa) 
Kuniyoshi  (1788-1801) 

Boy  carrying  wood;  another  boy  holding  cloth. 

Girl  reading  a  letter. 

Woman  holding  lantern,  and  attended  by  her  maid. 

Yoshiwara  girl. 

Raining  on  the  bank  of  the  Omumaya  River.      (Yedo) 
Masanobu,  Okumura  (1693-1768) 

Poetess. 

Woman  covering  the  eyes  of  a  man,  and  blowing  away  his  astral 

body. 
Moronobu,  Hishikawa  (1637-1716) 

Young  man  having  his  hair  combed   by  a  maid;    on  the  left  a 

woman  writing  a  letter. 
Sadahide,  Utag-awa. 

Eight  views  of  Lake  Biwa. 
Sadakage  (Pupil  of  Kunisada) 

Yoshiwara  girl  standing  by  a  lantern. 

Shigeharu. 

Helmet  on  a  plum  tree. 
Shigenobu,  Nishimura  (worked  1830-1855) 

Boy  turning  a  stone  into  a  goat,  with  his  magic  stick. 

Lady  walking  attended  by  her  servant  who  carries  a  box. 
Sbigenobu,  Yanag-awa  (1786-183:2) 

Female  dancer  standing  with  a  fan. 

Shiko. 

Lion  dancers. 

Shinsai. 

Ferry-boat. 
Shunman  (1780-1800) 

Girl  playing  ball  with  dog. 

Box  containing  samples  of  flowers. 

Wooden  toy  pigeon  on  top  of  a  stick. 

Sh.un.seii. 

Four  seasons. 

Horses. 
Shunsho  (1726-1792) 

Welcoming  a  guest ;  Palace  garden  in  background. 

Woman  making  her  toilet,  looking  in  a  mirror  he-Id  by  man  sitting 
at  her  feet. 

View  in  a  palace. 
Shunyei. 

Scene  from  the  drama  "Clmshingura." 


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Tokei. 

Cherry  blossoms;  with  cabinet  containing  utensils  for  making  tea . 

Decoration  for  New  Year. 

Treasure  ship. 
Tominobu  (wk.  early  igth  cent.) 

Woman  carrying  doll. 
Toyohiro  (1773-1828) 

Magician  raising  dragon  from  an  ash  receiver. 

Royal  family  in  a  garden  on  a  spring  day,  drawing  pictures  on 
fans. 

Cock  and  hen. 

Two  hens  and  sparrow. 
Toyokuni  I.  (1768-1825) 

Woman  holding  umbrella  against  an  attack. 

Woman  holding  roll  of  silk. 

Two  women  in  a  garden.     (Autumn  scene) 

Fukurokujin  and  Daikoku.     (Gods  of  Fortune  wrestling) 

Woman  posing,  holding  a  paper  scroll. 

Girl  dancing.     (Shiokumi,  the  name  of  the  dance) 

Girl  with  pipe. 

Girls  on  the  veranda  look  at  the  men  wrestling. 

Woman  standing  near  a  bush. 

Woman  standing  with  bleached  cloth  in  her  arm. 

Woman  carrying  pail  filled  with  flowers. 

Warrior  bearing  a  letter  in  a  cleft  stick. 

Girl  dancing  with  a  hobby-horse. 

Upper  story  of  a  Daimyo's  villa,  overlooking  the  sea. 

Women  drawing  water  from  a  well  which  is  decorated  in  honor 
of  a  New  Year  festival. 

Annual  fireworks  on  Sumida  river.     (Yedo) 

In  a  Daimyo's  garden. 

In  Daimyo's  garden.     (Moonlight  in  the  fall) 

Nobleman  at  a  Hot  Spring  hotel. 

Picnic  in  the  country.     (Autumn  scene) 

Scene  from  a  Play. 

Portrait  of  an  actor  as  Oishi  Yoshio. 

Scene  in  a  kitchen. 

Boy  standing  on  wharf;  purple  iris  beds  in  background. 
Toyokuni  II. 

Portraits  of  Hashidate  (2),  Komurasaki,  Shiratama,  and  Wakamu- 
rasaki. 

Cooking.     Preparing  the  fish. 

Woman  admiring  herself  in  a  glass. 

Woman  standing  holding  cloths  in  her  right  hand. 
Toyomasu,  Ishikawa  (worked  1740-1770) 

Children  playing. 

Girl's  festival. 


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Toyonobu  (1711-1785) 

Two  girls  playing  with  a  ball. 

Woman  hanging  out  her  dress  to  dry,  standing  on  another  woman 

who  is  lying  on  the  grass. 
Tsukimaro  (1753-1805) 

Two  men  carrying  ' '  Kago ' '  on  their  shoulders  while  another  man 

holds  a  lantern. 
TJtamaro  (1753-1803) 

Angry  baby. 

Archer. 

Two  lovers,  one  with  head-dress  holding  a  scroll. 

Woman  having  her  hair  combed. 

Two  women  drying  clothes. 

Two  women  walking,  one  holds  an  umbrella. 

Daughter  receiving  scroll  from  her  mother. 

Girl  with  pipe.     (Silvery  background) 

Girl  holding  towel  in  her  hands.     (Silvery  background) 

Child  holding  mask  on  its  face,  mother  pretending  to  be  scared. 

The  ferry-boat. 

New  Year's  festival;  before  the  shrine  of  the  god  of  fortune. 

Child  carried  on  the  back  of  its  sister. 

Making  tea  at  young  girls'  festival. 

New  Year's  festival.     (Boy  receiving  gifts) 

Three  ladies  gathering  mussels. 

Mother  protected  by  mosquito  net,  nursing  her  baby. 

Scenes  from  the  play  "Chushingura."     Acts  I-XII. 

Children  looking  into  the  peep-show. 
Yeisen,  Keisai  (1790-1848) 

Girl  arranging  her  hair. 

Girl  with  wooden  bucket. 

Three  Yoshiwara  girls,  each  standing  by  a  cherry  tree  in  blossom. 

Woman  opening  scroll. 

Woman  holding  scroll  to  her  head. 

Woman  with  lantern. 
Yeisho,  Fujiwara  (worked  1781-1800) 

A  promenade. 

Children  at  play,  carrying  cherry  boughs. 
Yeizan,  Kikukawa  (worked  1810-1830) 

Woman  holding  a  child  on  her  arm. 

Woman  writing  a  letter. 

Geisha    girls  in  tea-house  garden  at  night;    tea-house  in  back- 
ground. 

Garden  of  a  tea-house. 

Woman  walking  holding  a  lantern. 

Yoshiwara  girl  with  child  attendant. 

Young  lady  and  her  looking-glass. 

Young  beauty  enjoying  the  cool  of  the  evening. 


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Yeizan,  Kikukawa  (worked  1810-1830) 
Rain  storm  at  eveninj. 

Geisha  girl  walking  out  in  the  moonlight  in  autumn. 
Ten  o'clock  at  a  tea-house. 
View  of  the  Yoshiwara. 

Yenkyo. 

Portrait  of  an  actor. 

Yoshikazu,  Utagawa. 

Yoshitsune  playing  on  a  flute. 
Yoshitoshi  (worked  1850-1885) 

Page  with  an  iris. 
Anonymous. 

Design  of  bowl. 

Festival  dancing  before  the  Cave  Palace  of  Amaterasu. 

Morning  at  Yoshiwara.     Snowing  out-of-doors. 

Women  in  procession  at  cherry  festival. 

II.  ORIGINAL  DRAWINGS 

Buncho  Tani. 

Horse  lying  down. 

Bunpo. 

Man  bathing  in  a  tub. 

Buson. 

Man  seated  at  a  table. 

Man  seated;  cane  in  foreground. 

JMan  seated  with  "Kamishimo." 

Doan  Yamada. 

Radish. 

Gyosai  Kawanabe. 

Scene  from  the  farce  "Kitsunetsuri." 

Hiroshig-e. 

Devil  chanting  with  a  bell,  dressed  as  a  priest.     Two  prints. 

Hoitsu. 

Gourd. 

Hokusai  Katsushika. 

Cucumber  and  eggplant. 

Radish  in  a  pot,  and  a  letter  attached  to  a  small  stick. 

Kyuro  Otsu. 

Blind  man  with  musical  instrument  on  his  back. 

Female  dancer  at  a  July  festival. 

Male  dancer  at  a  July  festival. 

Man  lifting  a  stone. 

Mother  and  her  two  children. 

Two  brave  attendants  cf  Minamoto  Yorimitsu. 


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Matora  Oishi. 

Kamo  festival  in  Kyoto. 

Soldier. 

Two  travelers  passing  a  mile-stone. 

"  Yamabushi." 
Matora  Oishi  (attributed  to) 

Children  playing  ' '  War. ' ' 

Cock-fight  in  court. 

Rice-pudding  pedler. 

Three  adult  figures  seated  on  a  bench  at  Yoshiwara. 

Woman  and  male  attendant. 
Seigaku. 

Prince  Yamatodake  disguised  as  a  woman. 
Settso  Koisozaki. 

Insects.     Three  prints. 

Night  attack   upon  Kira's  house  by  forty-seven  Ronins.      Ten 

prints. 
Shinryu  Watanabe. 

Small  fishes  in  rapids. 

Utamaro  (1753-1805) 

Woman  nursing  her  baby. 
Zeshin  Shibata. 

Teapot  and  plum  blossoms. 
Anonymous  (Chinese  school) 

Copy  of  ' '  Kakemono ' '  picture. 
Anonymous  (Kano  school) 

Persimmon  tree. 
Anonymous  (Katsushika  school) 

Bird  and  spider. 

Bird  hunter. 

Chinaman  with  long  pipe. 

Court  servant  sweeping  in  the  garden. 

Mount  Fuji  and  poet  Saigyo. 

Ghost  of  badger  corning  out  of  a  pot. 

Imps  dancing  around  a  fisherman. 

Landscape,  in  blue  and  white.      [Mount  Fuji] 

I/andscape,  in  blue  and  white.      [Village  in  foreground] 

Landscape.     (Snow  scene) 

Man  and  woman  walking  in  the  moonlight. 

Man  walking  in  the  snow. 

Man  yawning. 

Moso  carrying  the  bamboo  shoots  on  his  shoulder. 

Old  man  yawning. 

Priest. 

Sennin  and  crane. 

Teacup  and  spoon. 


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Anonymous  (Katsushika  school) 

Three  birds. 

Traveler. 

Two  men  playing  "Ken." 

Two  rats  and  three  jewels. 

Woman  after  bath. 

Woman  standing  with  fan. 

Yebisu  (god  of  fortune)  carrying  a  basket  of  "tai"  fish. 

Young  dog. 
Anonymous  (Tosa  school) 

Demon  breaking  a  coffin. 
Anonymous. 

Bamboo.     Two  prints. 

Bats  and  crescent  moon 

Birds. 

Butterflies. 

Capital  punishment. 

Characters  in  a  Chinese  novel  entitled  "Sei  yuki." 

Child  cleaning  the  ear  of  Hotei. 

Chinese  lady. 

Chinese  tyrant. 

Chrysanthemums. 

Commander  of  army  clad  in  armor  of  the  middle  ages. 

Court  guard. 

Court  servants  resting. 

Crow  and  scattered  leaves. 

Cuckoo  and  crescent  moon. 

Daikoku  standing  on  a  bag  of  rice. 

Deserted  boat. 

Kmpress  Jingo  and  her  minister  Takenouchi. 

Figure  studies. 

Fish. 

Five  figure  studies. 

Flower  (cotton) 

Fox  and  rabbits. 

"Fua-fua."     (Farce) 

Fukurokuju. 

Grape  vine.     Two  prints. 

Hammer  of  Daikoku  and  mouse  (his  attendant)     Two  prints. 

' '  Hana-ton-zumo. ' '     ( Farce ) 

"  Hochomuko. ' '     ( Farce) 

Horse  galloping. 

Hotei  by  the  bag. 

Hotei  in  the  bag. 

Iris. 

' '  Kakiyamabushi. ' '     ( Farce ) 

"Kikyo,"  an  autumnal  flower.     Two  prints. 


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Anonymous. 

Kusunoki  Masashige  parting  from  his  son. 

Magnolia. 

Man  riding  on  another's  back. 

Maple  tree. 

Morning-glory. 

Mount  Fuji  and  pine  tree. 

"  Nio"  (Guardian  god  of  temple  gate)  and  Yoshiwara  girl. 

"Nios,"  guardian  gods  at  the  temple  gate.     Two  prints. 

"No"  dancer. 

Old  man. 

Plum  blossoms.     Two  prints. 

Portrait  of  Sugawara  Michizane.     Two  prints. 

Priest  holding  a  bowl. 

"  Ran,"  a  grass. 

Rice-peddler,  rolling  "  usu  "  on  the  snow.     Two  prints. 

Rural  occupations. 

Sennin  and  two  child  attendants. 

Sparrow  and  paste  pot. 

"  Suehirogan."     (Farce) 

Taira  Tadanori  arresting  a  priest  whom  he  took  for  a  Demon. 

Three  adult  figures  (male) 

Traveling  priest. 

Two  figures. 

' '  Uba-ga-y  ado . "     ( Farce ) 

Wild  strawberry. 

Woman  seated  by  a  charcoal  fire. 

Woman  seated  with  a  scroll  before  her. 

Woman  standing. 

Wounded  soldier  drinking  water. 

Yoshiwara  girl  standing  by  lantern. 

"  Yukino-shita,"  a  grass. 

III.  WATER-COLOR  PAINTINGS 

Bokutei. 

Landscape. 

Hiroshige  I.  (i793~l859) 
Eight  Views  of  Fuji. 

Arai,  on  the  Tokaido  road. 
Kanaya,  District  of  Totomi. 
Miho  of  Okitsu,  District  of  Suruga. 
Satta  Mountain,  District  of  Suruga. 
Shin  Yoshiwara,  Yedo. 
View  of  Takanawa,  Yedo. 
View  of  Ueno  Hill,  Yedo. 
Yoshiwara,  District  of  Suruga. 

Hokusai  Katsushika. 

Monk  destorying  and  burning  up  an  image  of  Buddha. 


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Seiko. 

Chrysanthemum  by  the  stream. 
Toko. 

Pigeon  perched  on  cherry  bough. 

IV.  ILLUSTRATED  BOOKS 
a.   Individual  works 

[An  asterisk  (*)  indicates  original  drawings.] 

Bairei  Kono. 

*Bairei  Sense!  Gwafu.     Kyoto,  1880. 

Ko-giyo  Zushiki.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1883.     Vols.  I,  II,  V. 
Bairin  Kokunsai. 

Sketch  'Book.     1826. 
Bakusen. 

Shikuzu. 
Beisen  Kubota. 

Beisen  Manyu  Gwajo.     Hakubunsha,  Tokyo,  1889. 

Bijitsu  Hin  Gwafu.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1894.     Vol.  III. 
Boku-o. 

Boku-o  Shingwa.     Tsurugaya,  Osaka,  1753.     5  vols. 
Bokusen  Maki. 

Bokusen  Sogwa.     Kyoto. 

Kyogwa  En.     Izumiya,  Tokyo,  1804.     Vol.  I. 
Buncho  Tani. 

Buncho  Gwafu.     Ohashi,  Nagoya,  1862.     2  vols. 

Meizan  Zufu.     Shohakudo,  Tokyo,  1804.     3  vols. 

Tani  Buncho  Honcho  Gwasan  Daizen.     Iwawoto,  Tokyo,  1890. 

2  vols. 
Bunko. 

*Sketch  Book. 
Bunpo  Kawamura. 

Bunpo  Gwafu.     Yanagiwara,    Osaka,    1807,    1811.      Vols.  I,   II. 
Original  Ed.     Yanagiwara,    Osaka.     Vols.    I-III.     Reprint. 

Bunpo  Jingwa.     Fugetsu,   Nagoya,  1800.     Original  Ed.     Yeira- 

kuya,  Nagoya.     Reprint. 
*Figure  Designs. 

Kangwa  Shinan.     Hishiya,  Kyoto,  1810.     3  vols. 

Kinpaen  Gwafu.     Hishiya,  Kyoto,  1820. 
*Sketches  of  facial  expression. 
Busoii  Yohantei. 

Buson  Sanju  Roku  Kasen.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1828. 

Sketch  Book.     1780-1850. 
Chojisai. 

Kotoritsukai.     Kawachiya,  Osaka,  1805.     3  vols. 


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Choko. 

^Sketches.     1820. 
Fukuzensai  Shofu. 

Ittpitsu,  Gwafu.     Tohekido,  Nagoya,  1823. 
Ganku. 

Album  of  Sketches. 
Getsb.0. 

Zoku  Akoya  Bunko.      Nagoya,  1797-1798.     Vol.  V. 
Goryo  Maekawa. 

Koshi  Heien  no  Zu.     Jihei  Tanaka,  Kyoto,  1893.     2  vols. 
Gyokusho  Kawabata. 

Illustrations   from    "No"    dance   and    "Kyogen."      Fukuendo, 

Tokyo,  1882. 
Gyosai  (or  Kyosai)  Kawanabe. 

Bunmei  Kwaigwa  Hen.     Tokyo,  1882. 

Gyosai  Gwa  Dan.     Iwanioto,  Tokyo,  1887.     4  vols. 

Gyosai  Hyakki  Gwadan.     Butokudo,  Tokyo,  1889. 

Gyosai  Hyakuzu.     Wakasaya,  Tokyo,  1831-1889.     9  vols. 

Gyosai  Mangwa.     Chikira,  Tokyo,  iSSi.     Vol.  I. 

Illustrated  proverbs.     Tokyo. 

Kyosai  Gwafu.     Tokyo. 
Hanbei  Shokosai. 

Masukagami.     Osaka,  1789.     Vol.  I. 
Harunobu  Suzuki  (1705-1772). 

Harunobu  Gwajo,     1770.     Vol.  I. 
Haruyoshl  Yamamoto. 

Honcho  Hyakusho  Den.     1853. 
Hauzan  Matsukawa. 

Hesono  Yadogae.     12  vols. 

^Original  hand  drawing  of  ' '  Hesonoyadogae. ' '     6  vols. 
Hirokag-e  and  Hoki. 

Comic  views  of  Yedo. 

Hiroshige  I.  (i793-!859)- 

*  Album  of  sceneries  and  customs. 
*Free-hand  sketches. 

Illustrations  of  the  fifty -tiiree  towns  on  Tokaido  (Eastern  seaside 
road)  and  three  great  cities.      (Small-sized  album.)     Aritaya, 
Tokyo. 
Illustrations  of  the  fifty-three  towns  on  Tokaido  (Eastern  seaside 

road).     (Large-sized  album.)     Tokyo. 
Oyedo  Meisho.     Tokyo. 

Sho-shoku  Gwatsu.     Shorindo,  Yedo.     Vol.  II. 
Sohitsu  Gwafu.     Kinsho-do,  Tokyo,  1850.     Vol.  II. 
Yedo  Ilaiiabi  Senryo.     Vol.  II. 
Yehon  Yedo  Miyage.     Kinkado,  Tokyo,'  1861.     Vols.  I,  II,  VIII. 


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Hiroshige  II. 

Flowers  and  sceneries.     1877. 

Hoitsu  TJka. 

Kenzan  Iboku.     kyoto,  1826. 

Hokuba  Teisai  (1800-1840). 
*Costume  Sketches.     Tokyo. 

Hokusai  Katsushika  (1760-1849). 

Album  illustrating  Japanese  and  Chinese  legends.     Tokyo. 
Eiyu  Zue.     Osaka,  Tokyo,  1825. 
Fuji  Hyaku  Kei.     Tohekido,  Nagoya,  1834. 
Hokusai  Dochugwafu.     Tohekido,  Tokyo. 
Hokusai  Gwaen.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1832.     Vols.  I-III. 
Hokusai  Gwafu.     Tohekido,  Tokyo,  1849.     3  vols. 
*Hokusai  Gwajitsu  Jo.     Tokyo.     Vol.  I. 
Hokusai  Gwaroku.     Hishiya,  Nagoya,  1813. 
Hokusai    Mangwa.       Eirakuya,    Nagoya,     1814.       Vols.    I-XII. 

Original  Ed. 

Hokusai  Mangwa.    Katano,  Nagoya,  1875.    Vols.  I-XV.    Reprint. 
Hokusai  Shashin  Gwafu.     Meguro,  Tokyo,  1891.     Reprint. 
Hyakimoonogatari.      ( Pictures  of  ghosts. )     Tokyo.     Vol.1. 
Joruri  Zekku.     Tokyo. 
Joruri  Zue.     Vol.  I. 
Katsushika  Shinso  Gwafu.     Matsumura,  Tokyo,    1890.     2  vols. 

Reprint. 
Manshoku  Zuko.     Gungyokudo,   Osaka.     Vol.  V,   1850,  Vol.  II, 

1891. 
Nippon  Bijitsu  Taito,  Hokusai  Gwafu.     Chugado,  Osaka. 

Vols.  II-IV. 

Santai  Gwafu.     Yeirakuya,  Nagoya,  1816. 
Shin  Hinagata.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1836. 
Shuga  Tehon.     Kaishinro,  Tokyo,  1892.     Reprint. 
Sketches.     Tokyo. 

Yehon  Azuma  Asobi.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1802.     Vols.  I-III. 
Yehon  Kokei.     Suzanbo,  Tokyo,  1834.     Vols.  I-II. 
Yedo  Meisho  Zue.     Tokyo. 
Yehon  Onna  Imagawa.     Tokyo. 
Yehon  Sakigake.     Suzanbo,  Tokyo,  1836.     Vols.  I-III. 

Hokusai  Katsushika  and  Toyokuni. 

Retsujo  Hyakunin  Isshu.     Yamaguchiya,  Tokyo,  1847. 

Hokyo  Kangetsu. 

Sankai  Meisan  Zue.     1798.     Vols.  I,  III-V. 

Honen  Tsukioka. 

Shusho  Suiko  den.     Ohashido,  Tokyo.     Vol.  III. 

Hoyen  Nishikawa. 

*  Album  of  sketches. 


164  Report  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress 

Ichiro  Yashima. 

Ichiro  Gwafu.     Gwasendo,  Tokyo,  1781.     Vol.  II. 
Itcho  Hanabusa  (1651-1724) 

Guncho  Gwayei.     Yejima,  Tokyo,  1769.     3  vols. 

Gwahon  Shuyo.     Tokyo,  1751.     Vols.  I-II. 

Itcho  Gwafu.     Tokyo,  1770. 

Itcho  Kyogwa  Shu.     Meguro,  Niigata,  1888.     Reprint. 
Kagematsu. 

Kwaidan  Hanafubuki.     Hokurindo,  Tokyo,  1836.     Vol.  I. 
Kanenari  Akatsuki. 

Yodogawa  Ryogan  Shokei  Zue.     Osaka. 
Kansai  Ichikawa. 

Kansai  Gwafu.     Su-shido,  Tokyo,  1891-1893.     Vols.  I,  III,  V. 

Kason  Suzuki. 

Nitshin  Senso  Yemaki.     Shunyodo,  Tokyo,  1895.    Vols.  II,  III,  V. 

Keig-aku. 

*  Free-hand  sketches.     Vols.  XVI-XIX. 

Keika  Haseg-awa. 

Biko-zukan.     Matashichi  Torii,  Kyoto,  1897.     2  vols. 

Keinan.. 

*  Sketches. 

Keisai  Kitao  (died  1824) 

Cho-ju  Ryakugwa  Shiki.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1797. 

Hhon  Takauji  Kunkoki.     1800. 

Gyo-bai  Ryakugwa  Shiki.     Sho-yei  Do,  Tokyo,  1884.     Reprint. 

Jin-butsu  Ryakugwa  Shiki.     Shin-sho  Do,  Tokyo,  1799.     Vol.  I. 

Keisai  Ryakugwa  Shiki.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1795. 

Keisai  Sogwa.     Eirakuya,  Tokyo.     Vols.  I,  III,  IV. 

Sansui  Ryakugwa  Shiki.     Shunpudo,  Tokyo,  1800. 

Soka  Ryakugwa  Shiki.     Tokyo. 

Kiho  Kawamura. 

Kiho  Gwafu.     Seiho  Do,  Kyoto,  1824. 

Kingwa. 

Kyoka  Sode  Tsuzura.     Shikaisai,  1812. 

Kinsa  Urakawa. 

Yehon  Hayamanabi.     Kochiya,  Osaka,  1848. 

Kocho  TJeda. 

Kocho  Gwafu.     Kawachiya,  Osaka,  1834.     2  vols. 

Kocho  Gwafu  Nihan.     Shekigyokuho,  Osaka,  1849.     Vols.  I-II. 

Kocho  .Ryakugwa.      1863. 

Kocho  Ryakugwa.     Tokyo. 

Koken. 

Kwaidan  Gwahon.     Kobundo,  Kyoto.     Vol.  I. 


Division  of  Prints — -Noyes  Collection  165 

Korin  Ogata. 

Korin  Gwafu.     Tauka,  Kyoto,  1891. 

Korin  Gwafu.     Kinkado,  Kyoto,  ist  Ed.  1802.     2  vols.     Reprint. 

Korin  Gwashiki.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1889.     ist  Ed.  1818.     Reprint. 

Korin  Hyakuzu  Kohen.      Hakubun  Kan,    Tokyo,    1891.     Vols. 
I-II. 

Korin  Hyakuzu.     Hakubun  Kan,  Tokyo,  1894.     Vols.  I-II. 

Korin  Jyunizu.     Kokkado,  Tokyo,  1894. 

Korin  Shinsen  Hyakuzu.     Matsumoto,  Kyoto,  1891,  ist  Ed.  1864. 

2  vols.     Reprint. 
Kuiiinao  TJtagawa. 

Shinji  Andon.     Yeirakuya,  Nagoya.     Vol.  IV. 

Shinji  Gwafu.     Kobaien,  Nagoya. 

Kunisada  TJtagawa. 

Akegarasu  Sumieno  Ucbikake.     Koeido,   Tokyo,  1863.     Vol.  V, 

Part  I;  Vol.  VI,  Parts  I-II. 
Goshozakura    Baisbo    Roku.      Kinkyodo,  Tokyo,    1861.      Vols. 

II-III. 
vShiranui    Monogatari.      Hiro-oka    Ya,   Tokyo.      Vol.   XXXVI, 

Part  II. 
Kuniyoshi. 

Musobei.      Sanoya,   Tokyo,    1858.      Vol.  II,   Part  II;    Vol.   Ill, 

Part  II. 
Kuniyoshi  Ikusa. 

Yedo  Hanabi  Senryo.     Tokyo. 
Kuniyoshi  Utagawa. 

Shinji  Andon.     Toheki  Do,  Nagoya.     Vol.  II. 

Iroha  Bunko.     Kansendo,  Tokyo,  1861.     Vol.  V,  Part  I. 

Kyuro  Baitei. 

Kyuro  Gwafu.     Buncho  Do,  Kyoto,  1797. 

Mannen  Suzuki. 

Yamato  Niskiki.     Bunkyudo,  Kyoto,  1888-1891,  4  vols. 

Masanobu  Okumura  (1685-1764) 
Ancient  Designs. 

Matora  Oishi. 

Harikae  Andon.     Tohekido,  Nagoya . 
Shinji  Andon.     Kobaien,  Nagoya,  1829. 
Sogwa  Hyakubutsu.     Tsurugaya,  Osaka,  1832. 

Minwa  Aikawa. 

Bungwa  Hyaku  Nyo.     Maikawa,  Tokyo,  1814. 

Mitsunobu  Hasegawa. 

Tobae  Fude  Byoshi.     Kajita,  Nagoya,  ist  Ed.  1772.     2  vols. 

Mokufu. 

Toba  Meihitsu  Gwafu, 


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Morikuni  Tachibana. 

Unpitsu  Sogwa.     Nishiniura,  Tokyo,  1749.     Vol.  II. 
Moriyoshi  Shin-o-sai. 

Tama  Hiroi.     Bunkai  Do,  Toyama. 
Nangaku. 

*  Nangaku  Gwahon. 
Nangaku  and  Bunpo. 

Shukyo  Gwafu.     Kawachiya,  Osaka,  1811. 
Nankai  Suzuki. 

*Sanjuroku  Kasen.      1822. 
Okyo  Maruyama. 

Okyo  Gwafu.     Fujii,  Kyoto,  ist  Ed.  1837;  2d  Ed.  1893.     2  vols. 

Reprint. 
Biusen  Shigenobu. 

Riusen  Gwafu.     Minoya,  Nagoya,  1834. 
Ryusai  Shigeharu. 

Yakusha  Sangokushi.     Bunkindo,  1831. 
Sanenobu. 

Meihitsu  Gwafu.     Kinzuido,  Tokyo,  1859.     Vol.  II. 
Seisho. 

*Seisho  Gwafu. 
Seiyo. 

Kyoka  Meisho  Fuso  Zue.     Shunyutei,  1835.     Vol.  I. 
Sekien  Toriyama. 

Hyakki  Yako.     Naganoya,  Tsu,  1805. 

Hyakki  Yako  Shui.     Naganoya,  Tsu,  1805,  isted.  1781.     Reprint. 

Senka. 

Tategu  Hinagata.     Vol.  I. 
Senshun. 

*Jinbutsu  Jo. 

* Senshun  Gwajo. 

*  Sketches. 
*Sogajb.     4  vols. 

Setshosai. 

Yehon  Shuyo.     Yamazaki,  Tokyo,  1871.     Vols.  II-III. 
Settan. 

*Jinbutsu  Kwacho.     1825. 
Settan  Hasegawa. 

Yedo  Meislio  Zue.     Tokyo,  1830.     Vol.  I. 
Settan  and  Settei. 

Yedo  Saijiki.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo,  1838.      2  vols. 
Settso  Koisomae. 

*Settso  Sensei  Gwafu. 
Shigeharu  Ryusai. 

Niju-shi-ko.     Vol.  I. 


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Shigenobu  Kawashima. 

Yononaka  Hyakushu  Yesho.     Iniai,  Kyoto,  1722. 
Shigenobu  Yanagawa. 

Yehon  Fujibakama.     Tokyo. 
Shiusai. 

^Sketches  after  Korin,  Keisai,  and  others. 
Shokei  Yamada. 

Nippon  Shinkei  Gwafu.     Aokido,  Osaka,  1893. 
Shokiken. 

Shokiken  Bokusofu.     1759.     Vol.  I. 
Shokosai  and  Tokei. 

Kenkai  Sumo  Zue.     Umemoto,  Osaka,  1883,  ist  ed.  1809.     2  vols. 
Shokosai. 

Uminosachi.     Tokyo,  1762. 
Shonen  Suzuki. 

Shonen  Sansui  Gwafu.     Suzando,  Tokyo,  1893. 
Shunsen  Takehara. 

Bhon  Hyaku  Monogatari.     Katsumura,  Kyoto,  1841.     5  vols. 
Shuntei. 

Mono-yu-Hana.     1781. 
Sojun  Yamaguchi. 

Sojun  Sansui  Gwafu.     Vol.  I. 

Yamato  Jinbutsu  Gwafu.     Fujii,  Kyoto,  1804.     Vol.  II. 
Suisai. 

Shoshoku  Gwafu.     Yamashiroya,  Kyoto,  1837. 
Sukenobu  Nishikawa.     (1671-1751) 

Customs  of  women.     Tokyo. 

Nippon  Masukagami.     Tokyo.     Vol.  II. 
Taikai. 

*Bamboo  and  flower. 
Takekiyo  Kita. 

Collection  of  poems  with  the  portraits  of  poets.     Sunoharaya, 

Tokyo,  1810. 
Toshu  Tamate 

Kaiko  Shingwa. 
Toyohiro  TJtagawa  (1773-1820) 

Kyo-gwa  Jo 
Toyokuni  Utagawa  (1776-1835) 

Omisoka  Akebono  Zoohi.     Koyedo,  Tokyo. 

Yakusha  Sodeka-gami.     Tokyo,  1804. 

Yedo  Hanabi  Senryo.     Tokyo. 
Tsunenobu  Kano. 

Album  of  drawings. 
TJeda. 

*Picture  album. 
UB  1906 12 


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Usen. 

Kyogwa  Awase.     1876. 
Utamaro  Utag-awa. 

Churui  Gwafu.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1892.     Reprint. 

Yeimin. 

^Sketches.     1866. 
Yeisen  Keisai. 

Buyu  Sakigake.     Tohekido,  Nagoya,  1885. 

Keisai  Sogwa.     Sunoharaya,  Nagoya,  1842. 

Keisai  Ukiyo  Gwafu.     Sunoharaya,  Nagoya.     Vols.  I-II. 

Shinji  Andon.     Vols.  Ill,  V. 

Yehon  Nishiki  no  Fukuro.     Gungiokudo,  Osaka,  1828.     Vol.  I. 

Yeisen  Gwafu.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo.     Vol.  I. 

Yeiyu  Gwashi.     Tokyo.     Vol.  I. 
Yeisenin  Kano. 

^Collection  of  Sketches. 
Yeitaku  Sensai. 

Banbutsu  Hinagata  Gwafu.     Vols.  II-V. 

Sensai  Yeitaku  Gwafu.     Kineido,  Tokyo,  1884.     Vol.  I. 
Yetsuoku  Sanjin. 

*Kyoka  Hyakunin  Ishu. 
Yisai  Katsushika. 

Sai-gwa  Zushiki.     Tokyo,  1864.     Vol.  IV. 

Yisai  Gwashiki.     Hoshudo,  Osaka,  1864.     Vol.  I. 
Yosai  Kikuchi  (1787-1878) 

Kikuchi  Yosai  Gwafu.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1891.     2  vols. 

Yoshichika. 

Kumanaki  Tsuki.     Hiro-oka  Ya,  Tokyo,  1867. 

Yoshichika  Utag-awa. 

Shiranui    Monogatari.      Kiku-ju-do,     Tokyo.      Vol.    XXXVIII, 

Part  II. 
Yoshiharu. 

Ansei  Kenbun  Roku.     Tokyo,  1856. 
Yoshiharu  TJtagawa. 

*Gwa  jo. 
Yoshitora  Utag-awa. 

Komei  Buyuden.     Sansendo,  Tokyo. 

Yoshitora. 

Sakura   Soshi    Gonichi    no   Bundan.     Kinkyo  Do,  Tokyo,   1862. 

Vol.  IV,  Part  II. 
Yoshitoshi  Tsukioka. 

Album  of  Pictures.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1890. 

Yuho  Tanaka. 

Bijitsu  Oyo.     Bunkyndo,  Tokyo,  1890.     Vol.  II. 
Kogei  vSliiny.u.     Tanaka,  Kyoto,  1892.      Vol.  II. 


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Zaisen  Hara. 

Zaisen  Shugwa  Cho.     Tanaka,  Kyoto,  1889. 
Zeshin  Shibata. 

Sketches.     Tokyo,  1885. 
Anonymous. 

^Collection  of  Designs. 
^Copies  and  Sketches. 

Daily  Ethics. 

Flowers.     Vol.  2. 

General  Instruction  in  Handdrawing.     Tokyo. 

Guide  Book  of  Yedo. 

Gwafu.     Vols.  II,  IV. 

Gwahon  Soshi. 

Gwaiban  Yobo  Zue.     Toshundo,  Tokyo,  1854.     2  vols. 

Ikebana  Koromo  no  Ka.     Kyoto,  1799.     4  vols. 
^Illustrated  description  of  "  Jiujitsu." 
^Illustrated  shorter  Poems.     Vols.  I-III. 

Instructions  in  drawing  the  Bamboo.     2  vols. 
*Jinbutsu  Gwajo. 
*Jinbutsu  Shikusha. 

Kakuchu  Enzu.     2  vols. 

Keihitsu  Tobaguruma.     4  vols. 

Kishi  Enpu.     3  vols. 

Kogata  Gwajo. 

Komochi  Nezumi  Hana  no  Yamauba.     1826.     Vol.  I. 
*Kyo  Gwa  Kau.     1875. 

Kyoka  Hyakumono  Gatari.     1853.     8  vols. 

Kyoka  Momochidori.     1857. 

Manshoku  Zushiki.     Sanyushoro,  Kyoto.     Vol.  II. 

Nezumi  no  Yomeiri.     Shinanoya,  Kyoto. 

Nippon  Hyakusho  Itseki  Banashi.     Vol.  V. 

Ojo-Yoshu.    Hishiya,  Kyoto,    ist  Ed.  1689,  2nd  Ed.  1790.    3  vols. 
Reprint. 

Oshie  Hayamanabi.     Kyoto.     Vol.  I. 

Pictorial  Illustrations  of  Daily  conducts. 

Rikisha  Chikara  Awase. 

Ruisei  Sogwa.     Funsho  Do,  Osaka.     1724. 

Saitan  Fuso  Meishozu.     1799. 

Sankai  Meisan  Zue.     Vol.  II. 
*Shiko. 

Shintoku  Nara  Miyage.     Kyoto,  1654. 

Shoshoku  Jinbutsu  Gwafu.     Yoshidaya,  Tokyo,  1859. 
*Soka  Yetehon. 
'^Studies  and  Sketches.     7  vols. 

Tengu  no  Tawamure.     2  vols. 

Toba  Caricature. 

Toba.     2  vols. 

Toba  Ogino  Mato.     3  vols. 


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Anonymous. 

Toba  Sangoku  Shi.     Vol.  II. 
Toba  picture.     Vol.  II. 
Views  of  Mount  Fuji. 
Yamato  Jinbutsu  Gwafu.     Vols.  I,  II. 
Yamato  Shikyo.     1770.     Vol.  i. 
Yeguchi  ai  Fukube  no  Tsuru.     Sunoharaya,  Tokyo. 
Yehon  Fuzoku  Kagami.     2  vols. 
Yehon  Hayamanabi.     Tokyo,  1857. 
Yehon  Kunkoso.     Vols.  VI,  VIII. 
Yehon  Miyako  Asobi. 
Yehon  Takauji  Kunkoki. 
*Yetehon.     8  vols. 

ILLUSTRATED  BOOKS 
b.   Collected  works 

*  Album  of  celebrated  Drawings. 
Album  of  Drawings  of  Chinese  schools. 
Album  of  fan  pictures.     By  Hokusai  and  others.     2  vols. 
Album  of  Nishikie.     3  vols. 

Album  of  pictures  by  celebrated  artists.     1804-1850. 
Album  of  pictures  by  various  artists. 
Album  of  sketches.     Vol.  I. 

Bijitsu  Sekai.     Shunyodo,  Tokyo,  1890-1891.    Vols.  I-III,  XXIV. 
Collection  of  Caricatures.     Tokyo. 

Collections  of  "  Nishikiye. "     1750-1850.     Albums  I-XV. 
Collection  of  theatrical  illustrations.     1790-1860.     Nos.  I-1I. 
Edehon.     1300-1800.     Vol.  III. 

Gokinai  Sanbutsu  Zue.     Shioya,  Osaka,  1813.     5  vols. 
Gwa-ei.     1400-1800.     Vols.  V,  VI. 
Hengaku  Kihan.     1574-1728.     Vol.  II. 
Hoka  Shu.     1804-1850. 

Illustrated  Calendar.     Thosheiro,  Tokyo,  1801. 
Illustrations  of  the  short  poems  ( ' '  Hokku  " ) .     Albums  I-IX. 
Katsura  no  Tsuyu. 
Kogwa  Shu. 

Kwa-cho  Jo.     1850-1890. 
Kwaigwa  Jo.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1892.     2  vols. 
Meihitsu  Gwafu.     1805-1870.     4  vols. 
Meihitsu  Jo.     1840. 

Miyako  Meisho  Gwafu.     Aoki,  Osaka,  1890.     2  vols. 
Musashino.     Kokkado,  Tokyo,  1880-1900. 

Nippon  Rekishi  Gwaho.     Okura,  Tokyo,  1892.     Vols.  VII,  VIII. 
Posters  and  Programs  of  the  shows  and  theaters  in  Osaka.     Vari- 
ous Pub.,  1820-1860. 
Studies  and  clippings. 

Yamashiro  Meisho  Fugetsu  Shu.     1884.     Vols.  I-II. 
Yezoshi  Fukuro  Harikae  Jo.     1780-1830.     Album  Nos    i,  2 


INDEX 


Page 

Accessions,  1905-6 16-20 

Documents,  statistics ; .  .         38 

Law  library,  statistics 41 

Manuscripts 20-33 

List  of 127-139 

Maps  and  charts,  statistics ,         43 

Music,  statistics 48 

Periodicals,  statistics 50 

Printed  books  and  pamphlets,  statistics 16-17 

Prints,  statistics 50,  53 

List  of 141-170 

Alvord,  Thomas  G 9 

Andrews,  Charles  M.,  Remarks  on  Stevens  Catalogue  Index. . .   28-31 

Appointments 10 

Appropriation  acts,  1906-7 85-89 

-Appropriations  and  expenditures,  1905-6  (tables) 83 

Appropriations  and  expenditures,  1905-1907  (tables) 7,  79 

Bequests 17-19 

Bibliography,  Division  of,  Publications  of 61-63 

Typewritten  lists  of 65-67 

Binding  and  repair 53 

Blind,  Reading  room  for  the 67 

Boyd,  Allen  R 10 

Bradley,  George  Lothrop,  gift  of 51 

Broadsides,  accessions 136-137 

Brown,  Senator  James,  papers  of 23 

Building  and  grounds,  Report  of  the  Superintendent  of   the 

Library 69-80 

Burchard,  Edwaid  L 9 

Calhoun,  John  C.,  letters  of 25 

California,  Spanish  archives,  loss  of 32-33 

Card  Section,  Cards,  orders  for 5^-59 

Cards,  sale  of 57-5$ 

Cards,  stock  of 59 

Cards  for  Government  documents 60 

Depository  libraries 59~6o 

Publications  of 63 

Subscribers  classified 57 

Subscribers  to  the  cards 57 

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Cards,  distribution  of  printed  catalogue. 57~6o 

Care  and  maintenance 77~78 

Catalogue  Division 54~57 

Catalogue  rules 55 

Cataloguing,  Classification  and 54-56 

Classification  and  cataloguing 54-56 

Conferences,  Copyright 14-16,  111-125 

Contents  of  the  library,  1905-6  16 

Continental  Congress,  Journals  of 34~35 

Contingent  expenses  (tables) 83 

Cooperation  in  cataloguing 56 

Copyright  bill — Statement  by  the  Librarian 111-125 

Copyright  Conferences 14-16,  1 1 1-125 

Copyright  legislation  and  international  copyright  relations.  .  .   98-101 

Copyright  Office,  Register  of  Copyrights,  report 91-101 

Articles  deposited,  1897-1906  (tables) no 

Bulletins 94~95 

Business,  1905-6  (tables) 105 

Business  prior  to  July  i,  1897 13-14,  97 

Catalogue  and  Index 93 

Catalogue  of  dramatic  compositions 98 

Catalogue  of  title  entries 93 

Certificates 92 

Circulars 94 

Copyright  catalogue,  new  series 93~94 

Current  business , 13 

Current  work 96-97 

Deposits 92,  93.  97 

Entries 92,  95 

Entries,  1901-1906  (tables) 109 

Expenditures 91 

Fees,  etc 9r~92>  96 

Fees,  1905-6  (tables) 103,  104 

Index  cards 93 

Publications 94~95 

Receipts 1 2,  91,  95 

Receipts,  1905-6  (tables) 102 

Registrations - 92,  95-96 

Salaries * 91 

Statistics 1 1 

Statistics,  1897-1906  (tables) 106-109 

Titles  recorded 97 

Uncleared  deposits 98 

Copyright  treaty,  1906 101 

Corwin,  Thomas,  correspondence  of 26 


Index  173 

Page 

Department  of  State,  MSS.  from 26-27 

Documents,  Division  of 38-41 

Accessions,  statistics 38 

English  records,  Transcripts  of 32,  137-139 

Equipment 67,  72,  74-77 

Expenditures,  Appropriations  and,  1905-6  (tables)  83 

Expenditures,  Appropriations  and,  1905-1907  (tables)   7,  79 

Expenditures,  contingent  (tables) 83 

Expenditures,  fuel,  lights,  etc 77-?8 

Finance 7-9 

Fitzpatrick,  John  C 36 

Franklin,  Benjamin,  List  of  papers  of 34,  36 

Fuel,  light,  etc. ,  Expenditures 77-?8 

Furniture  and  shelving 73~74 

Galloway  MSS 24-25 

Garrett,  T.  Harrison,  loan  collection 52 

Garrett,  Mrs 52 

Garrison,  Wendell  P 23 

Gifts,  Law  Library 41-42 

Manuscripts 20-24 

Manuscripts,  1905-6,  List  of 127-129 

Prints 51-53 

Collection  of  prints  by  Japanese  artists,  list  of 141-170 

Guittard,  Claude  B 10 

Increase  of  the  library 16 

Index  to  Comparative  legislation 8-9 

International  copyright  relations,  Copyright  legislation  and. .   98-101 

Japanese  prints,  etc. ,  List  of       .• 141—170 

Kane,  Grenville 52 

Kauffmann,  Samuel  Hay,  bequest  of 18 

Kent  gift 22 

Kent,  Edwin  C 22 

Kent,  William 22 

Kingsbury ,  Susan  M 37,  38 

Law  Indexes 8-9 

Law  Library 41-42 

Accessions,  statistics 41 

Gifts 41-42 

Purchases 42 

Legislation  needed 68 

Librarians,  1802-1906 5 

Lincoln,  Charles  Henry 37 

Lowery,  Woodbury,  bequest  of 18-19 

McGuffey,  Margaret  D 10 

MacLean,  J.  P 17 


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Manuscript  maps 4  V47 

Manuscripts,  Division  of 20-38 

Accessions 20-1* 

Accessions,  1905-6,  list  of 127-139 

Gifts ......'...    20-24 

Gifts,  1905-6,  list  of 127-129 

Publications 34-36,  63 

Purchases 24-26 

Work 33-34 

Manuscripts  from  Department  of  State 26-27 

Maps  and  charts,  Division  of 43-48 

Accessions,  statistics 43 

Markoe,  Francis,  papers  of 25 

Martel,  Charles •        n 

Meyer,  H.  H.  B 10 

Morris,  Stuyvesant  Fish  20 

Music,  Division  of 48-50 

Accessions,  statistics 48 

Naval  records  of  the  Revolution 36-37 

Newspapers,  accommodations  for 74~77 

Noyes,  Crosby  S.,  gift  of 51-52 

Collection  of  prints  by  Japanese  artists,  list  of 141-170 

Officers,  list  of 5-6 

Paterson,  Emily  K 21 

Paterson's  notes  of  Constitutional  Convention 21-22 

Periodicals,  Division  of,  Accessions,  statistics 50 

Printed  books  and  pamphlets,  Accessions,  statistics 16-17 

Prints,  Division  of 50-53 

Accessions,  statistics 50 

Classified  accessions,  1905-6 53 

Collection  of  prints  by  Japanese  artists,  given  by  Mr.  Crosbv 

S.  Noyes,  list  of 141-170 

Exhibits 53 

Gifts 51-53 

Purchases 53 

Publications  of  the  Library,  1905-6 61-63 

Publications,  Distribution  of 64 

Reading  room  for  the  blind 67 

Recataloguing 54-55 

Repair,  Binding  and 53 

Repair  of  MSS 34 

Resignations 9—1°,  !  I 

Robertson,  Mrs.  A.  J 23 

Rosengarten,  Joseph  George 23 

Savannah,  Ga.,  Custom-house  papers 24 

Schmidt,  A.  F.  W n 


Index  175 

Page 

Scratchley,  H.  P 22 

Service ._ 9-1 1 

Shaker  literature 17 

Shoemaker,  Charles  G 17 

Shoemaker,  William  Lukens,  bequest  of 17-18 

Slauson,  Allan  B _. TO 

Spanish  archives  of  California,  loss  of 32-33 

Staff,  Library 5-6 

Stevens  Catalogue  Index  of  Manuscripts 27-31 

Stevens  transcripts 31-32 

Stinson,  Miss  M.  V 38 

Superintendent  of  the  Library  building  and  grounds 69-80 

Taylor,  John  R.  M 23 

Taylor,  Zachary,  letters  of 23 

Transcripts  of  English  records 3I~32 

List  of 137-139 

Trumbull,  Senator  Lyman,  papers  of 25 

Unexpended  balances 80 

Van  Buren,  Martin,  papers  of 20-21 

Van  Buren,  Mrs.  Smith  Thompson 20 

Virginia  Company  of  London,  Records  of 37~38 

Visitors  to  the  Library,  statistics 72 

Washington,  George,  Calendar  of  correspondence  of 34,  35 

Diaries  of 25-26 

Whistler,  Mrs.  Thomas 52 

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