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in the side of the box were the complete recordsof a Boston merchan t shi p 's voyage to In di a in1852.

Abou t thi rty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Fe nt onDavison of Flint bought a heavy, gre en-paintedbox for one dollar from a junk dealer in Mas­sachusetts. O nce the p aint was removed and th ebox opened, they found a fel t-lined wri ting sur­face and numerous drawers and spaces beneath,on e of which revealed over one hund red carefullybundled letter s and documen ts of Capt. John S.Stick ney .

In 1851 Capt. Stickney was h ired by TheodoreChase, a wea lthy Boston merchant, to sail a two­masted ship, the Bomditch , to Calcutta and bac k.T he captai n arranged to board hi s young wife,Emma, with his father, in structing her to "makeyourself happy. and may God pro tect thee, andmay we be spared to meet again ." Before he de­parted Capt. St ickney a lso wrote to th e ladi es ofthe Dorchester Seamens' Fri end Society, than kin gthem for " the little library" which th ey hadpresented to the Bowditch's officers and crew.

American trade with India reached its height inthe 1850'5, when an average voyage lasted aboutn in e mo n ths . The Bowd itch left Boston inJa n uary and reached Calcutta, after heavy sa ilingthrough ga les and a hurrica ne, 128 d ays later.Capt. Stickney had loaded the ship with ice,a commo n cargo of th e period, and wh ile i t wasbeing d ischarged in Calcu tt a, th e captain tookup lodgings a t a hotel fittingly called the " IceH ou se."

As th e Bowd it ch's bottom req uired recopper­ing and caulking, Capt. Stickney h ad a good dealof time to purchase his return carg-o: gunny sacks,g-oatskins, in d igo, seersucker, Madras h andker ­ch iefs, sal tpe ter , safflower, linseed , she llac, castoro il, and ginger. The work proceeded smooth lyenough until J ul y 18, the day before Capt.St ickney was to sai l back to Boston . While theBowditch lay moored "off Coal y Bazar ," she wasbad ly battered by a sudde n floodin g of th eH oogly River.

TED QUARTERLY FOR T HE CLEMENTS LIB RARY ASSOCIATES

Visit ing Faculty

\VE ARE DELIGItTED to have ' V. Grah am Randleshere for the wi n ter term as a fellow of our Pro­gram in the Hi story of Discovery and VisitingAssociate Professor of H istory. Graham's h omeba se is Paris where he teaches h istory at theEcole des H autes Etudes, on e of the world'sleadi ng centers for the study of h istory. He wasborn in South Africa, graduated fr om CambridgeUniversity, and taught at the University ofLisbon for ten year s before go ing to Paris in1962. He is presently teaching a lecture coursein th e Med ieval and Renaissance Collegium anda gra d ua te semin ar cross-listed between ge­ography an d hi story. He is now at work on abook detailing the argumen ts for wh y peoplebefore Columbus thought the ea r th was flat.

I T Is RAR E when a manuscript collect ion arrivesa t the Clemen ts Library with its original con­tainer, but several month s ago a brass-inl a idma ho gany writing box a ppeared in the manu­scr ip t division. Discovered in a secre t d rawer set

pring M eeting

• lARK O N YOUR calendar Apri l 22 at 4 p .m. P ro f.Richa rd Crawford of our School of Mu sic, one ofthe leading a uthor it ies on earl y American m usic,....-ill present a program on " Musica l Classicismand the Folk: '

Pr of. Crawford is a dyn am ic speaker, and hehas hinted tha t the lecture will includ e somemusical performance. He will be assisted by hista lented wife, Pen ny Crawford , who is knownarou nd the country for authentic performan cesof eighteenth-cen tury mu sic with Ars Afusica.

After a hiatus of two years, we return to anafternoon Spring meeting. \Ve can guaran tee itwill be a program wor th leavin g work early toattend! T he presentation will be followed byrefreshme n ts.

Boston to Calcutta

THE CLEMENTS LIBRARY ASSOCIAT ESof The Uni versity of Michigan

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Appointed by th e Regents of the U nivers ity

Mrs. J ohn Alexander , A nn ArborXfrs. N oyes L. Avery, J r. , Gran d R ap idsCarl W. Bonbrigh t, FlintEdward W. Bowen, Bay CityRobert P . Briggs, Elk Rapids, CHAIRMAN

C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr., Bl oomfield HillsBly Corning, FlintThomas N. Cross, A n n A rborDu an e N. Died rich, l\luncie, In d.\ Vill iam C. Finken staedt . DetroitHarlan H . H at cher , A nn ArborPet er N . H eydon , A nn A rborJ ames M. Klan cnik, Ch icagoJ ames S. Schoff, New Y orkRoy M. Tolleson, J r. , DetroitMrs. David F. Upton, St. JosephLee D. van Antwerp , N orthbrook ,Tll.John D . W heeler, Bay CityJ oh n C. Dann, Director of the

Librar y, sEcRETARY

T he man y accoun ts, receipts a nd bi lls-for yetmore cop per, caul king and sheath ing, unloa d ingand reloadin g, coolie hire. dock hire- attest tothe vast ex pense of th is delay. Capt. Stickneya ler ted Mr. Ch ase th at th e whole business wouldcost some 18,000 rupees. or nearly $ 10,000. Then ,as the refitt ed Bowditch was finally head ed to sea ,the tu g p ilot ra n the sh ip afou l of a French bark,"one of the man y sorry occu rances on thi s mostu nfortunate voyage," as Ca pt. Sti ckney lamen ted .After a costly sett lemen t of legal problems ari singfrom th e latest mi shap, Cap t. Stickney sailed forBoston in late September.

The library is de lig h ted to have th is excelle ntrecord from the age of th e d ipper sh ip . \Ve aregratefu l to ~Ir. a nd Mrs. Davison for presentin g

us wit h Cap t. Stickney's p apers, as well as thIebeautiful box upon which he wrote. ~(n..

Davison , in tracing the Bowdit ch a nd its own erth rough M r . Cha se's descendan ts, provid ed mwith on e of the best documented collections wehave ever re ceived .

New CLA Board M em ber

By U NA NI MOUS V OTE at their fa ll meeting. theBoard of Govern ors ext ended an inv ita tion to asta unch fri end of the lib rary, Mrs. John Alex­ander, to join its ra n ks. We are de lighted toan nounce her acceptance. and the for mal 31'prova l by the Universit y'S Board of Regen ts.

Mrs. Alexander, wife of the late Dr. J ohnAlexander , ch ief of the T horacic Surgery Secti onat U niversit y H ospi tal. is a res iden t of AnnArbor. She has a long-standing interest in hi storyand art and is presen tl y complet ing a graduatedegree in fine arts at the universit y. She is anau thor ity on mi lita ry uni forms, a nd visitors toth e library are likel y to recall her wonderf ullyaccu rate papier machc figures dressed in au then ­ti c un iform s of the Revolution ary \ Var whi chh ave graced our main and rare hook rooms.

18Ih-Cen tw -y Semester

THE CLEMENTS LIBRA RY IS th e setting for avariety of ac t ivities in a n ex citing inter-depart­men tal progr am on the eigh teen th century pre­sen ted in the winter semester a t th e Univer sit yan cl organize d by Steven Lavine of the En gli shDepartment. T he departments of En gli sh , Mu sic,Fin e Arts, and Hi sto ry have offered a ta ntalizingpot pourri of courses relating to a ll ph ases of theEnl ightenment. The Rare Book R oom of theH a tcher Lib rary, the Mu seum of Art, and theClements have put on di spl ays. O ur ex h ib it ,"T re nds in Ei ghteenth Century Architecture,"show n in J anuary and Feb ruary, was put to ­get her by Ken neth A. Breisch , drawing largelyupon our fine collect ion of arch itectural worksprin ted in or ava ilab le in America.

T he library is also playing host to six p ublicaft ernoon lectu res: "B ea u march a is an d theAmeri can Revolution " by Bri an M ort on (Feh . 6) ;"Gihbon as Historian and Autobiographer" byMar tin e Brownl ey (Fe b. 18); "Education forRevolution ar ies: France in the Eighteen th Cen­tury" by R. R . Pal mer (Feb . 20); " Mak ing

_\ gustan Poetry" by Russell Fraser (Feb . 27);- .\ la pmaking in th e Age of Enlightenmen t" byGeorge Kish (Mar. (9); " Pr in t Cult ure and En ­lightenmen t Though t" by Elizabe th Eisenstein~ Ia r. 25).There will be a free chamber music concert

on xfarch 26 a t 8 p .m. Rich ard Crawford's pro­eram on April 22, noted in a separat e Quartua rt icle, is open to the public as part of the sameseries,

Heat of Battle

Ix T wo PREV I O US issues of th e Qua rto, we havenoted the gift of th e j ames a nd \Vill iam Mill erCivil War lett ers trom Mrs. Norma n Hartwcg ofAnn Arbor.

Galen Wilson of our Manuscript Division wasrecently putting finishing touches on catalogingth e co llection , a nd he brought one remarkableletter by J ames T . Miller, dated June 1863, to

our a tt en tion. \Vriuen lon g before the creationof the psychi atric profession . i t gives as fine ad escr iption of the me nta lity of battle as onecould find anywhere. Miller di ed in ba ttl e lessth an a yea r later in Georgi a .

"In rega rd to the danger I have pa ssed through ,th at part is very pleasant. It is not th e dan gerth at a soldier has passed th at bothers h im ; it isthe danger th at is still to be met that he fearsa nd if you could on ly be with us around ourca mp fires after a fight and listen to th e accoun tsof the ha ir bread th escapes th a t are told of andhea r the loud lau gh s th at greet each one's ex ­pe r ience and sec the gody reck less careless wa yin which they arc told , you wou ld be ver y a pt tothin k. th at we were th e happiest set of men yOllever saw . But if you sh ou ld go with us to thehattie field and see those th at are so ga y, theirfares pale and their nerves t remhling. and seea nxiet y on every coun tenance a lmost borderingon fear, you wo uld be very a p t to th in k we werea ll a set of cowa rd ly pol troo ns-this picture tohe taken just before the figh t begins, and theene m y is in sight and the d u ll ominous silencetha t generally ta kes pl ace before th e bat tleheg in s. And th en as th e skir mis hers are deployedto th e front, and you begin to h ear the sha r pirregular cra ck of th eir rifles, and to sec th e pu llsof white smoke th at tell wh ere the foe are , a nda non to hear th e deep sha r p sound of th e can onand listen to th e scream ing whistling of thehursri ng she lls . a nd th en to see the solid co lumnsof the foe ad va nce in pla in sigh t, every man

seeming to step as proudly and stead ily as if onparade. and even while th e a rt illery tea rs largegaps in th eir lin e, still on they come , hard lyfaltering for a moment. Now look at our lin eand you will see those men th a t one h alf hourago were pale a nd trembling. and now just asth e mu sketry begin s, to see th e same men palest ill hu t no trembling now, bu t see th e firm com­pressed lips, the eye fixed and pre cise and bl oodsho t, and th e mu scles rigid and th e veins cor­ru ga ted and kn ottcd- and looking more likefiends th an men. And th en after th e ba tt le hasraged for some time, a nd comrades are lyingth ick around . th en as th e sou l-stirri ng ordercomes to charge. then away we go in to the veryj.IWSof death a nd never for on e momen t falteringbu t yell ing like devils u p to th e mouths of thecanon. and th en to hea r th e wild triumph an tcheer and within a few hours to see the sam e menpa ssin g over th e hattie field wit h the kindnessa nd tenderness of a woma n , helpin g fr iends orfoes as th e case may be. And by the timc you haveseen this. you wi ll beg in to th ink th at a so ld ierhas as ma ny characte rs as a ca t is said to havelives, hut st ill I h ope it will not he your lu ck totread th e rough li fe of a so ld ier:'

M ichigan Ma p Societ y

Tm: CLEMENTS LWKARY was host to the J an uar ymeet ing of the ~[ichigan Map Socie ty. Theth irty five person s who att ended heard Visit ingProfessor \V. G rah am R andles speak on "Ex­plorer 's Maps of Afri ca" an d were a ble to viewth e H ack Atlas 0 11 d isplay in th e rare boo k room.

T he ma p socie ty was formed in th e fall o f1977. wi th similar societies alread y in ex istencein Ch icago and ill Madison, Wisconsin. Thepurpose of all lIlap societ ies is to en cou rage th estud y a nd preserva tion of maps. Monthly meet­ings of th e Mich igan soc iety bring mem berstogether to hear gu est spea ke rs on to pi cs as widera nging as " Por to la n charts of the R enai ssance"and "the tec h nology of sat ell ite mapping."

!\Ian y of th e 1I10st devoted mem hers cam e fromIllap cla sses held at the Cl ements Librar y andsponsored by th e U n ivers ity of Michi gan Exten­sion Ser vice. The first presid en t of this organ iza­tion was Thomas N. Cross, a mem ber of thelib rary's Associa tes board .

Dues-payin g members number seventy. T hemost am bit ious project acco mplished was a week ­end visi t to the New berry Lihrary in Ch icago

last spring and a symposium on printed mapsof the Italian Renaissance and current trends inconservation. Twenty-six members made the tripand were joined by members of the Chicago MapSociety. The society also sponsored a map auctionand a session on the history of cartography atthe annual meeting of the Association of Ameri­can Geographers /East Lakes region.

Rave Gifts

THE LARGEST percentage of our acquisitions comeby way of purchase. At the same time, a year docsnot go by in which we are not given a numberof rare and significant items. Examples from thepast year illustrate the importance of these much­valued donations.

In the realm of books, Jonathan Daniels ofNorth Carolina, through the good offices of JoelPatrick of Beaufort: S.C., gave us Don PabloAntonio Penuelas' Breve noticia de la prodigiosaimagen de n ucstra seiiora de los angeles (MexicoCity, 1781). George S. MacManus & Co. of Phila­delphia added the l858 issue to our extensivecollection of Philadelphia directories. Rev.George A. Miller of Ann Arbor gave a Gaelicprayer hook published in 1827; Professor GeorgeKish . the five-volume New American Worldedited hy David B. Quinn, an invaluable collec­tion of source material on the earliest voyagesof discovery; John E. Jacobs of Ann Arbor, twoearly nineteenth-century military drill manuals;Prof. Bradford Perkins, a War of 1812 pamphletjustifying the military action on scripturalgrounds.

.Mrs. Arthur R. Kooker, whose late husbandwas a graduate student of Prof. Dwight Dumondand a noted historian at U .C.L.A., gave us sixvery scarce, early issues of Benjamin Lundy'sGenius of Un iversal Emancipation . Ken Leachof Vermont, Sam Men-ill of Boston, and CharlesLesser of South Carolina all added items toour growing collection of early Christmas books.Thomas H . Adams of Birmingham donated avery scarce 18]2 Walpole, N.H., edition ofAmelia Simmons' American Cookery. HerbertBartlett of Saline gave us three titles: a ]779collection of Jonathan Parsons' sermons, DanielWise's Bridal Greetings (1852), and PopularTechnology (]844), a charming little book withwoodcuts from all the trades.

The library was the benefactor of two largeRifts of books. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert ("Fritz")Crisler gave us several dozen Civil War histories

as well as a number of early nineteenth-centurytitles and a beautiful 1843 edition of Dicken.A Christmas Carol. Theodore R . Crane presentedforty-seven Benjamin Franklin titles which welacked in honor of his father, Prof. Vernor Crane.a distinguished scholar and member of our Com­mittee of Management for three decades.

Our manuscript holdings on the Civil 'Varwere augmented by three outstanding gifts .Duane Diedrich of Muncie, Jnd., presented afine four-page letter from Admiral Farragut toBen Butler, Aug. 31, 1862; Dr. James R. Robin­son of Abaco, Bahamas, gave us the pocketdiaries of his grandfather. Nathan D. Robinson.of the 104th Ohio Regiment; Mrs . Evelyn S.Hosack of Kirkwood, Mo., presented a series ofparticularly good diaries of Thomas B. Byron,70th Ohio Regiment, covering four full years ofmilitary service. Prof. \Villiam Randolph Taylordonated a memorandum book, 1803-1805, keptby Jonathan Murdock. apparently a surgeon on atrading vessel, describing commercial prospectsfor America in the 'Vest Indies and China.

The Map Division received several eighteenth­century American maps from 1\rfrs. Joan Wilce ofAmherst. Mass., and a pocket map of Wisconsinin the 1850's from Mrs . George Cameron of AnnArbor. The sheet music collection was strength­ened by several hundred pieces donated by Mr.Edward G. Williams of Pittsburgh, Mr. andMrs. [ohn D. Wheeler of Essexville, Mr. andMrs. Loren D. Wicks of Kendall, Fla., Col. andMrs . Thomas R. Ostrom of Bel Air, Md., andGeorge S. MacManus & Co.

These gifts are deeply appreciated.

l.ibrarv Publications

BEGINNING WITH the current year, the Quartowill he regularly published three, rather thanfour times a year, in March, June, and Septem­ber. Special supplementary issues will appearon occasion, such as the Hack atlas numberheing · mailed with the March Quarto.

This decision was made for two reasons: tosave money in our severely taxed Current Ac­count, and to avoid duplication of informationpresented in the Quarto and the Annual Reports.Because of the budgetary constraints, the AnnualReport for 1977fl978 was not printed on sched­ule . It will be issued and mailed with the reportfor 1978/1979 this spring. In the future, theannual report will be mailed in December, inlieu of the Quarto issue being dropped.