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Earlier this year, AAS received alarge and important collection of

manuscripts of the Allen and Johnsonfamilies of Northborough,Massachusetts, the generous gift of thedescendants of Leonard W. Johnson.

Several generations of the family,which included ministers and doctors,are represented in this collection.Included are several hundred sermonswritten by Rev. Joseph Allen (1790-1873), diaries of his wife Lucy ClarkWare Allen (1791-1866); diaries andcorrespondence of their children,including Mary Ware Allen (1819-97)who married Joshua J. Johnson (1809-84) andalsopapers oftheJohnsons’daughterHarrietHallJohnson(1842-1927) andher hus-bandWilliamH.Johnson(1840-1907).The collection is particularly rich incorrespondence among the women ofthe family, and it will be valuable toresearchers studying a wide range ofsubjects.

One of the highlights of the Allen-Johnson Papers is a group of four“School Journals” kept by Mary WareAllen in 1837-38. These are of particu-lar interest because during this periodMary was attending the Greene Street

CornerstoneCeremony

On Tuesday, July 11, in conjunc-tion with the quarterly meeting

of the AAS Council, the cornerstone forthe new building and materials gatheredto be placed in it were shown to anaudience of friends, neighbors, contrib-utors, Society members, and librarystaff along with special guests from theCity of Worcester and the Massachu-setts Statehouse. Front pages of severalnewspapers for the day, a copy ofUnder Its Generous Dome, a currentMembership Directory for the Society, aCD-ROM with a complete copy of theAAS web site, the Society’s bylaws, tworecent issues of Almanac, and a com-plete list of donors to the building cam-paign as of that date were among theitems to be placed in a sealed containerbehind the cornerstone facade with abold “2001” inscribed.

AAS Council Chairman Robert C.Baron welcomed the guests assembledto celebrate the new “Building forBooks” and turned to the words of

Isaiah Thomas, who wrote in 1814that, “During the past year, the Libraryhas considerably increased; and . . .now consists of nearly three thousandvolumes.” Noting that in 2001 the col-lections now comprise some three mil-lion items, he continued, “That bringsus to today. We are erecting a state ofthe art, secure facility to house thesewonderful items gathered over the last190 years. We are providing space forthe collections to grow through thetwenty-first century, increasing our stor-age space for each collection by factorsranging from 50% to 100%.” Finally,in his capacity as Chairman of the capi-tal campaign committee, Baron thankedthe contributors who have made thisbuilding effort possible.

An exhibit in the reading room fea-tured the materials that were placed inthe cornerstone of the 1853 Antiquar-ian Hall, the building that was replacedby the current building in 1910. Itemsin that cornerstone included: aWorcester Almanac and Directory for1852; front pages of newspapers pub-

AAS Acquires Allen-Johnson Collection

School in Providence. Her principalteacher there was the TranscendentalistMargaret Fuller, who was soon tobecome editor of the influential journalThe Dial. Because of Mary’s intelli-gence and perceptiveness, her journal isone of the longest and is arguably thebest of the several surviving studentdiaries from the Greene Street School.

Shortly after her arrival inProvidence, Mary wrote: “One of theclass asked if we were to get ourlessons by heart. Miss Fuller said shenever wished us to get our lessons byheart, as that expression is commonlyunderstood, for nothing could be far-

ther fromgetting itbyheart—itwasofteneronly get-ting it bybody—the hearthad noth-ing to dowith it.No, shewantedus to getourlessons by

mind—to give our minds and souls tothe work. If there were any whothought they could not do this, whodid not feel an interest in it, who didnot feel willing to answer her ques-tions, and to open their minds to her,she wished them to leave the class — itwould not displease her, she wishedthey would do it, even if there wereonly two left who really felt interest-ed.” These diaries, and the rest of thecollection, have hitherto been almostentirely inaccessible to researchers.

Kresge ChallengeProgress

Stoddard Charitable Trust awardshalf-million dollar grant

The Kresge FoundationChallenge Grant, awarded to

AAS in March, stipulates that AASraise $2.9 million in order to earnKresge’s $800,000 grant. A majorstep in progress toward that goalwas taken when the StoddardCharitable Trust of Worcesterapproved a grant for $500,000.Warner S. Fletcher, Chairman of the Trust, wrote on June 25: “AsChairman, it is my pleasant task toreport to you that the Trusteesapproved a grant of $500,000 . . .our largest ever gift to the Society.”The foundation and members of thefamily that created it have beenfaithful supporters over the years. Asone example of that generosity, theHarry G. Stoddard Fund, establishedin 1982 with gifts from the founda-tion and from individual members ofthe family, is the largest acquisitionsendowment fund held by AAS. Bornin 1873, Harry G. Stoddard waselected to AAS membership in 1927and remained a faithful and activemember until his death in 1969.

At the end of June with fourteenmonths remaining before the KresgeChallenge deadline, AAS has receivedmore than 100 gifts totaling over$865,000. The $500,000 from theStoddard Charitable Trust is thelargest gift to date in the KresgeChallenge effort and the fourthlargest gift received in the capitalcampaign.

In addition to the dollar amountof the Challenge, AAS has set foritself a goal of attracting more than400 gifts to support the effort tobuild a new book stack and to reno-vate the existing stacks. While it willrequire some other large gifts toattain the dollar goal of $2.9 million,gifts like the $15 from a graduatestudent, who was a recent reader atthe library; the $250 from a profes-sor emerita, who held a fellowship;the $100 from a local historical soci-ety in gratitude for a program givenby an AAS staff member are alsoneeded and greatly appreciated. ALLgifts are important is showing theKresge Foundation that the libraryhas broad support and in helping usto claim the Challenge Grant.

Page four has a complete list ofdonors who have supported thebuilding project and contributedtoward claiming the KresgeChallenge Grant in the period ofMarch 1 – June 30, 2001.

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Thomas Knoles, curator of manuscripts, reviews and prepares descriptions of

the newly acquired materials in the Allen-Johnson Collection. Although AAS

is known primarily for its collections of printed materials, the manuscripts

collection is a rich resource, particularly in the areas of New England life

and culture and the book printing and publishing business.

Member Notes

In May, George A. Billias presented alecture at AAS on George Bancroftas a historian. This talk was a part ofWorcester’s community-wide celebra-tion of the bicentennial year ofBancroft’s birth. Those readers whohave spent time here will rememberthat the site of the Bancroft home isjust up the hill from the Goddard-Daniels House on Salisbury Street.

William R. Burleigh has retired aschief operating officer of the E.W.Scripps Company, but he retains hisresponsibilities as chairman of theboard. Mr. Burleigh began his careerwith Scripps in 1951 as a high schoolstudent who covered local high schoolsports events, and he became presidentof the company in 1994.

Robert E. Erburu retired as chairmanof the Board of Trustees of theHuntington Library, Art Collections,and Botanical Gardens on June 30,2001, after twenty years of service onthe board and ten years of leadershipas its chair. Robert A. Skotheim, theHuntington’s president will retire inAugust after thirteen years at the insti-tution’s helm.

The American Studies Associationawarded the 2000 Carl Bode-NormanHolmes Pearson Prize for lifetimeachievement in and contributions tothe field of American Studies to JohnHope Franklin.

Loren Ghiglione has been namedDean of the Medill School of Journal-ism at Northwestern University. Inaddition to his academic career,Ghiglione practiced the art of journal-ism as editor and publisher of theSouthbridge (Massachusetts) News

and president of Worcester CountyNewspapers. He leaves his position asdirector of the School of Journalism inthe Annenberg School for Commun-ications at the University of SouthernCalifornia in order to assume his newposition this summer.

After thirty-five years in the HarvardUniversity Library system, KennethCarpenter retired from his position asAssistant Director for ResearchResources as of December 31, 2000.His friends at AAS are delighted thatwe have seen much more of him in2001, and we expect to see him evenmore as he and collaborators WayneWiegand and Thomas Augst beginwork under the auspices of the Centerfor the Book in the Library of Congresson a history of libraries in America.

The Associates of the Boston PublicLibrary are honoring former librarytrustee David McCullough by establish-ing a book conservation fund in hisname. AAS members will have theirchance to hear McCullough talk aboutJohn Adams at the annual meeting inWorcester in October.

Annually, the National Endowment forthe Humanities awards its NationalHumanities Medals to individuals orgroups “whose work has deepened thenation’s understanding of the humani-ties, broadened citizens’ engagementwith the humanities or helped preserveand expand Americans’ access toimportant resources in the humanities.”Among the year 2000 recipients wasEdmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professoremeritus at Yale University. Morgan,elected to AAS membership in 1949, isthe second longest serving member;Charles H. Sawyer, elected in 1946, isour member with the longest tenure.

Barnes Riznik has been honored by theHistoric Hawaii Foundation with theGovernor’s Preservation Award for histwenty-five years of raising awarenessof preservation issues throughout thestate. Riznik, who was director of theGrove Farm Homestead and WaioliMission House on Kauai, has retired toOsterville, Massachusetts.

Friends gathered at the KnickerbockerClub in New York City on the occasion

of Roger Stoddard’s sixty-fifth birth-day and celebrated the publication ofRoger Stoddard at Sixty-Five in hishonor. Among the contributors weremany AAS members, including MarcusA. McCorison, AAS President emeritus;Michael Winship, Associate Professorof English at the University of Texas at Austin; and Luke Ives Pontifell,whose Thornhill Press published thevolume. Among the guests were alsotwo colleagues from HarvardUniversity’s Houghton Library: HughAmory, retired senior cataloger andWilliam H. Bond, Librarian emeritus.

Maris Vinovskis, professor of history atthe University of Michigan, served onthe advisory committee working oneducational issues during the transitionto George W. Bush’s administration.Vinovskis was a fellow in only the sec-ond year of AAS visiting research fel-lowship program, 1973-74, and he wasfar ahead of the game in studying whatwas to become a hot button politicaltopic, writing on changing family valuesin Massachusetts, 1770-1860.

David Warrington, librarian for specialcollections at Harvard Law School, wasmade very happy when two vansarrived delivering about 1,000 volumesof Elizabethan law books, bequeathedto the library by Harvard Law Schoolalumnus Henry Ess. The Boston Globe

story announcing the acquisition statesthat it instantly created “the world’smost important center for the early his-tory of the American legal system.”Boston College legal historian DanielR. Coquillette said, “These are thebooks that give the words ‘due process’and ‘equal representation’ meaning. Tohave the strongest collection in theentire world of this period, it’s like hav-ing all the Michelangelos and all theRaphaels.”

Laubach Literacy International inSyracuse, New York, appointed RobertWedgeworth as its president.

Fellows Notes

Good news on two fronts for JenniferJordan Baker. She was married in Mayto Stephen Fishbein. (She will keep hername.) In the fall she will take up herappointment as assistant professor ofEnglish at Yale University.

Kathleen Brown and Ted Pearsonhave a new baby boy. Owen DanielRafael Pearson joins three-year-oldWilliam, who was born while bothwere in residence at AAS in 1998.

Christopher Grasso’s analysis of theturning from ministerial to secularauthority, A Speaking Aristocracy:

Transforming Public Discourse in

Eighteenth-Century Connecticut, is co-winner of the Homer D. Babbidge, Jr.,Award of the Association for the Studyof Connecticut History for 2000.Babbidge, who had a distinguishedcareer in higher education including ser-vice as President of the University ofConnecticut, was a member of the AASCouncil and served as Chairman of theCommittee on Membership. He wasalso a collector of corkscrews and theauthor of two books on the subject!

Artist fellow Pamela Keech sent theannouncement of her installation at theLower East Side Tenement Museum.Flower School commemorated the 1870day school founded by the Children’sAid Society. The work was based onresearch done here at AAS.

Russell L. Martin, III, who was intro-duced to AAS as a Peterson Fellow in1992-93 and most recently has servedas curator of newspapers and periodi-cals for the past four years, is leavingAAS this summer to accept the positionof Director of the De Golyer Library atSouthern Methodist University, wherehe was an undergraduate. Everett L.De Golyer, Jr., the collector who found-ed and donated this library to SMU,was a member of AAS from 1969 untilhis death in 1977. Martin’s tenure ascurator has been a period of outstand-ing acquisitions for the newspaper col-lections; on his final day at work hedrove a rental truck of remarkable18th- and 19th-century newspapersfrom a warehouse to be integrated intothe AAS collections. Russ will be great-ly missed by all his colleagues and byreaders at AAS, and the contributionshe made to strengthening the collectionswill ensure that he is long remembered.

Graphic Arts in Historical Research

The Program in the History of the Book inAmerican Culture’s summer seminar for 2001

focused on the resources of the graphic arts departmentand offered researchers encouragement and insights oncreative ways to use images as primary research docu-ments. Georgia B. Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorof Graphic Arts at AAS, led this seminar with the assis-tance of Caroline Sloat. Faculty included Louis Masurof City College of New York, James Newton of Lincoln-Sudbury (Massachusetts) Regional High School andJohn Reps of Cornell University. Masur, a strong advo-cate for the broader use of visual evidence in historicalresearch, provided the theoretical context and offeredexamples of recent works by historians who have effec-tively used graphic arts materials as a basis for their his-torical arguments. Newton drew on his extensiveresearch on political caricature of the Jacksonian era toillustrate the way political parties used an early massmedium to debate key political issues. Reps used prints

of city views to show how historians can understand the development of urban America using lithography, which was at thetime a popular, as opposed to an elite, medium.

Barnhill gave the group an introduction to printmaking techniques and traced their evolution in the nineteenth century as well as provided an orientation to the rich visual resources available in the AAS collections. Caroline Stoffel, the on-lineservices librarian, introduced the participants to searching the on-line catalogues.

Devoting the seminar to graphic arts was an innovation for the summer seminar, but faculty, administration, andregistrants all agreed that the experiment was a great success. The seminar closed with its traditional visit to Isaiah Thomas’sgravesite in nearby Rural Cemetery; and the historical use of the performing arts was introduced when, to everyone’s surprise,Isaiah Thomas (in the person of actor Neil Gustafson, who had a date that afternoon in a Worcester area classroom) made an appearance to tell the group about his career as a printer and to commend their good work in studying the history of theprinting arts.

lished in Worcester during the secondweek in June 1852, including theMassachusetts Spy (the newspaper thatIsaiah Thomas moved from Boston toWorcester in 1775 and continued topublish for so many years); a bookletwith maps of Worcester and engrav-ings of scenes in the city; and a list ofthe building committee, the builders,and the architect. AAS President EllenDunlap also showed the audience thenine-page speech given by CouncilPresident Waldo Lincoln at the dedica-tion of the 1910 cornerstone andpromised that, just as today’s partici-pants sported no top hats like those oftheir twentieth-century counterparts,none came with long speeches either.

After years of planning and work-ing toward the construction of anaddition, the project is now wellunderway and will be completed inabout a year from now.

Cornerstone continued

Daniel A. Cohen Miami, Florida

Associate Professor of History, FloridaInternational University. A past AASfellow and frequent reader at theSociety, Mr. Cohen is also a recentGuggenheim Fellow and a bookcollector. His scholarly works includeThe Female Marine and Related Works:

Narratives of Cross-Dressing and

Urban Vice in America’s Early Republic

(1997) and Pillars of Salt, Monuments

of Grace: New England Crime

Literature and the Origins of American

Popular Culture, 1674-1860 (1993).

Joanne S. Gill Milton, Massachusetts

A collector of voyages and travels andof American imprints. Trained as anattorney, Mrs. Gill has lent hervolunteer efforts to numerous civic andcultural boards. She comes by herserious interests in collecting naturally:her mother, AAS member BetsyShirley, is arguably the greatest livingcollector of American children’s books.Both are members of the Beineckefamily, a legendary book collectingfamily in the United States.

Joy Hakim Virginia Beach, Virginia

Author of A History of US. A formernewspaper writer, editor, andelementary school teacher, Ms. Hakimhas worked continuously with teachersand students in test classrooms all overthe country in crafting each book in theHistory of US series. This innovativeand award-winning ten-book series for young readers, published by OxfordUniversity Press, has sold more than1.3 million copies since its inception in1993.

William Hosley Enfield, Connecticut

Director, Antiquarian and LandmarksSociety, Hartford. Mr. Hosley’s manypublications include Colt: The Making

of an American Legend (1996); The

Japan Idea: Art & Life in Victorian

America (1990); and The Great River:

Art & Society of the Connecticut Valley,

1635-1820 (1985), for which he wasgiven the Charles F. MontgomeryAward.

William L.Andrews Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Professor of English, University ofNorth Carolina. A well-knownscholar of African Americanliterature, Mr. Andrews has served asco-editor of The Norton Anthology of

African American Literature (1997),co-editor of The Oxford Companion

of African American Literature

(1997), and general editor of The

Literature of the American South: A

Norton Anthology (1997).

James G. Basker New York, New York

Professor of English, Barnard College;President, Gilder-Lehrman Institute ofAmerican History; and Chair,Columbia Faculty 18th-CenturySeminar. In 1990, Mr. Basker held anAAS fellowship to support hisresearch into the American readers ofSamuel Johnson. He is workingclosely with AAS on Common-Place,our joint venture with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute and foundingeditors Jill Lepore of BostonUniversity and Jane Kamensky ofBrandeis University. The electronicjournal is at http://www.common-place.org on the internet.

John Bassett Worcester, Massachusetts

President, Clark University. Mr.Bassett’s field of teaching and researchis in American literature, and he haspublished research on WilliamFaulkner, Mark Twain, the HarlemRenaissance, Southern literature, andThomas Wolfe.

Charles F. Bryan, Jr.Richmond, Virginia

Director of the Virginia HistoricalSociety since 1988. Mr. Bryan hasbeen assistant editor of the Papers of

Andrew Jackson (1978-1981),executive director of the EastTennessee Historical Society (1981-1986), and director of the St. LouisMercantile Library (1986-1988).Among his many publications is Eye

of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey,

written and illustrated by Private

Robert K. Sneden, which he co-editedlast year.

Henry Lee Boston, Massachusetts

A leader in cultural and educationalaffairs. Mr. Lee has served as presidentof the Massachusetts Historical Society,president of the Friends of the PublicGarden (Boston), and director of theAugustus Saint-Gaudens Historic Site inCornish, New Hampshire. He is formerheadmaster of the Carroll School inLincoln, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth McLean Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

A collector of books about the historyof gardens and gardening, publicationsdealing with early herbals, and otherlists of beneficial botanical products.Mrs. McLean is chairman of the boardat the Library Company ofPhiladelphia. With her husband,William L. McLean, III, a third-generation newspaper man, she is anactive supporter of many cultural andenvironmental organizations.

Barbara W. Merritt Worcester, Massachusetts

Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church.As such Rev. Merritt is a successor ofAaron Bancroft, who served not only asminister to Isaiah Thomas but also as afellow founder of the AmericanAntiquarian Society. She is a layhistorian, an orator, a civic leader, anda leader within her profession.

James Miller Washington, D. C.

Professor of American Civilization andEnglish, George Washington University.A noted expert and teacher in AfricanAmerican literature and culture, Mr.Miller has also held administrative andteaching posts at the University of SouthCarolina, the State University of NewYork at Buffalo, and Trinity College.

Breon Mitchell Bloomington, Indiana

Professor of Comparative Literatureand Germanic Studies and Director ofthe Wells Scholar Program at IndianaUniversity. Best known as a scholar andtranslator of 20th-century literature,Mr. Mitchell is also a student of nativeAmerican linguistics and a seriouscollector of rare books in and aboutthese native languages.

Lewis A. Nassikas West Falmouth, Massachusetts

A legendary receptionist and greeter inthe library, a tireless collectionsvolunteer, and a faithful donor. Retiredfrom business, Mr. Nassikas hasserved the Society in many ways; andalthough he has recently moved toCape Cod, he remains a valuedmember of the AAS community.

Matthew Needle Newburyport, Massachusetts

Antiquarian bookseller, widelyrespected by his colleagues for hisremarkable ability to turn up greatmaterial. For many years, Mr. Needlehas given the Society first choice ofimportant acquisitions. He has beengenerous in giving his time forappraisals and has been especiallyhelpful with those donating materialsto AAS.

Mark RooseveltBoston, Massachusetts

President and CEO, MassachusettsBiotechnology Initiatives in Worcester.Mr. Roosevelt has served as executivedirector of John F. Kennedy LibraryFoundation, as a state representative,as a candidate for governor, as aprivate educational consultant, and asa founder of charter schools. AnAmerican history major as an under-graduate, he continues to have anactive avocational interest in the field.

Julie Briel Thomas Paris, France

Professor of comparative literature,Université d’Èvry Val d’Essonne. Anative of and frequent visitor toWorcester, Mrs. Thomas used AASresources in her doctoral study, “PastLives and Distorting Mirrors: TheDepiction of England and the Definingof America in American Writing,1800-1860.”

Marvin Weiner Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Retired from business. Mr. Weiner is acollector of American Revolutionary-era pamphlets. A life-long supporter oflibraries and historical organizations,he holds one of the great collections of18th-century Americana still in privatehands.

New Members The following were elected at the spring meeting in April 2001.

Mark your calendars for a very spe-cial Annual Meeting in Worcester,

October 18-20, 2001. AAS memberDavid McCullough will kick off theweekend with a talk on John Adams—one of the early members of the Society,elected in 1813—on Thursday night,October 18. On Saturday, members willhave the option of following that themeby taking a bus tour to the AdamsFamily Homestead in Quincy to tour theNational Park site and learn more aboutthe New England roots of this remark-able political family.

On Friday evening, constructionprogress permitting, there will be a galadinner and dance in the new book stackwing, before the shelving is installed.Dine on the spot where, ten monthshence, the most comprehensive library ofprinting in America through 1876 willbe housed. Materials to be located herewill include the first book printed inAmerica, the Whole Booke of Psalmes

(1640); the unique surviving copy of thefirst novel printed in America, SamuelRichardson’s Pamela; volumes of Isaiah

This Annual Meeting will inaugu-rate the new millennium and introducethe first new book stack for the libraryin more than fifty years. Celebrate withus and also join AAS collectors, whowill share their personal experiencesand the fruits of their collecting at aCollectors Roundtable, and participatein other special events. Registrationmaterials will be mailed to you inSeptember.

And, while you are marking yourcalendars, save the dates of April 18-21,2002, for the spring meeting of themembership in San Francisco. We areworking with members in the area toplan special events, including a visit towine country and tours of private col-lections. Last April’s meeting inPhiladelphia gave us an opportunity toexplore sites associated with the found-ing of the republic. In visitingCalifornia members will shift focus dra-matically to experience the ways theWest has played a role in shaping thenation’s history.

Thomas’s Massachusetts Spy; one of theworld’s most complete collections ofPaul Revere’s engravings; and othertreasures reflecting America’s historyand culture. This will be the last time

that food is allowed in the stacks, andcurators and pages will be prohibitedfrom dancing there after the librarymoves in. It will be a once-in-a-lifetimeopportunity, and it will be fun.

October Meeting features McCulloughOctober 18-20, 2001

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