order to the attaining to perfect reading," by Henry Adis, London, printed for Francis Smith, at the Elephant and Castle without, about 1661; "State-divinity," by Sir Roger L'Estrange, London, printed for Henry Brome, 1661, first edition; "Theatrum poetarum," by Edward Phillips, London, printed for Charles Smith, 1675, first edition; "The devil was and is the old informer against the righteous," by George Fox, London, printed by John Bringhurst, 1682-3; “A hymn to victory," by Daniel Defoe, London, printed by J. Nutt, 1704, first edition; "The Shepherd's week," by John Gay, London, R. Burleigh, 1714, first edition; "The life, adventures, and pyrasies of the famous Captain Singleton," by Daniel Defoe, London, printed for J. Brotherton, 1720, first edition; “La Ligue; or, Henry le Grand. Poème epique," by Voltaire, A Genève [Rouen], 1723; "Poems on several occasions," by Matthew Prior, London, J. Tonson and J. Barber, 1725; "Travels into severall remote nations of the world, in four parts, by Lemuel Gulliver;" that is, Jonathan Swift, London, printed for Benj. Motte, 1726-27, the first edition, with separate title-pages, table of contents and pagination for each part; "Tumble-down-Dick," by Henry Fielding, London, J. Watts, 1744, first edition; "The castle of indolence,” by James Thomson, London, A. Millar, 1748, first edition; "The journal of a voyage to Lisbon," by Henry Fielding, London, A. Millar, 1755, first edition; "Monument du costume physique et moral de la fin du dixseptième siècle," by Restif de la Bretonne, Neuwied, 1789; "Ali Pachia; or, the signet-ring. A melo-drama, in two acts," by John Howard Payne, New York, E. M. Murden, 1823, first edition; "The seraphim and other poems," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London, Saunders and Otley, 1838, first edition; "American notes for general circulation," by Charles Dickens, London, Chapman & Hall, 1842, the cor

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edition, "The leaguer of Lathom," London, Tinsley Brothers, 1876, first edition, all by William Harrison Ainsworth.

DIVISION OF MANUSCRIPTS.

(From the report of the acting chief, Dr. Moore.)

The Department of State, supplementing the transfer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States to the Library of Congress, has added all the papers relating to both of these fundamental documents and also all papers relating to the Congress of the Confederation. These include Madison's Journal of the Constitutional Convention; the journal, acts and proceedings of that convention, and the Articles of Confederation ratified March 1, 1781. Also the record of the ordinances of Congress from 1781 to 1788, as well as those for the government of the western territory of the United States. Also Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence.

The department also transferred the papers relating to foreign relations during the Revolution, including the secret journal of foreign affairs; the letters of Robert R. Livingston and John Jay, secretaries for foreign affairs; the reports of Jay to Congress; official letters of Benjamin Franklin, minister to France; letters of Arthur Lee from Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, including his correspondence on the Silas Deane controversy; letters of John Adams from Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, and London; letters from the joint commissioners to negotiate treaties of amity and commerce (Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson); official letters of Jefferson as minister to France; letters of William Carmichael and John Jay from Spain, Ralph Izard from the court of the Grand

other correspondence relating to the foreign affairs of

Confederation.

Henry Adams, in preparation for writing his Histor the United States, had made transcripts from the di matic correspondence of Great Britain, France, and S from 1787 to 1814. These transcripts were bound ha somely in 20 volumes. Before there was a manus department in the Library of Congress, Mr. Adams posited his transcripts in the Department of State. order to place this material with other like collections by writers of history, Secretary Hughes, with the con of Mr. Charles Francis Adams, has permitted the tra to the Library.

In all of these transfers the Library has both pleasure satisfaction in acknowledging the favor and courtesy of Gaillard Hunt, editor of the State Department publicati

After many vicissitudes the George Mason papers rela to the formation of the Constitution of the United St have been purchased and are now safely housed in Library, along with other fundamental source mat for the history of this Government. The collection cludes Mason's speech in the Constitutional Convent letters of Richard Henry Lee to Mason; resolves in Virginia Convention adopting the Declaration of Rig John Blair's plan for the judiciary, with Mason's ments; and Edmund Randolph's plan of a Constitution the United States.

The more important additions to the Washington pa comprise letters to Lord Stirling, William Preston, Madi and Gov. Henry Lee; photostats of the papers in the Mi

letter from the Comte de Grasse; a list of Washington's Pennsylvania land rents. From the United States Naval Academy (through the courtesy of Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, the superintendent) came copies of the accounts of Bushrod Washington and Lawrence Lewis, as executors of the estate of George Washington, and of Lund Washington's Mount Vernon accounts, 1782-1786.

Among the papers of the House of Representatives deposited in this Library is a letter of Martha Washington consenting to the removal of the remains of General Washington from Mount Vernon to the Capitol. The Library has purchased the draft, in Washington's handwriting, of a letter from Mrs. Washington to Col. David Humphreys, thanking him for a gold chain. Also the Naval Academy gave a photostat of a letter in her handwriting to John Dandridge, 1787. The Library possesses a photostat of a letter, now in the Massachusetts Historical Society, describing the excellent living conditions experienced at Cambridge during the Revolution. Mrs. Washington's writing is that of a trained hand; yet it is noteworthy that so few of her letters are extant.

To the presidential manuscripts have been added letters. of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe to Thomas and Susan Maria Bruff, presented by Mrs. W. A. Croffut; 16 letters of John Quincy Adams to Joseph Blunt, 1804-1834, and others to Rufus King and William Plumer; 34 letters from Andrew Jackson to his wife, together with several to his son and daughter-in-law, besides a miscellaneous collection of letters to and from him, written between 1816 and 1833.

President Lincoln's first inaugural was printed privately in Lincoln papers. Springfield. Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward revised it in Washington and a good many changes were made. Mr. Nicolay gave to the press a copy of the revised discourse, made up of the sheets printed in Springfield and of the changes agreed upon in Washington, which were in Mr. Nicolay's handwriting. The original sheets came into the possession of Prof. Charles Eliot Norton and are now in the Harvard Library. Through the courtesy of the librarian, Mr. William C. Lane, photostat copies have been furnished to this Library.

gifts.

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has continued his benefactions by J. P. Morgan giving photostat copies of his entire Lincoln collection, including a number of important letters not printed in Lincoln's Complete Works. One such letter has a bit of Lincoln humor. It is addressed to "Hon. Sec. of War," who is asked to have "the Adjutant General ascertain whether 2nd Lieut. of Co. D, 2nd Infantry, Alexander E. Drake, is not entitled to promotion. His wife thinks he is. Please have this looked into." There is a letter to Horace Greeley, March, 1862, expressing uneasiness about the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and the desire to have "the bill contain three main features-gradual, compensation, and vote of the people. I do not talk to Members of Congress on the subject, except when they ask me." In October of 1862 Lincoln writes to Major General Grant, Governor Johnson, and others in regard to the election of Members of Congress from Tennessee, and there are other letters to Andrew Johnson. A unique production is an original poem, "The Bear Hunt," in 22 stanzas.

Mr. Clarence Hay and his sisters gave to the Library in Clarence 1916 the original manuscript of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, one sheet of which evidently was written in the White House and the other in Gettysburg; also they gave a fair copy, written before its delivery, as would appear from the

gifts.

Hay