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of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio at Cincinnati; Dr.
Wallace H. Cathcart, director of the Western Reserve Historical Society at
Cleveland; Dr. Julian P. Boyd, librarian of the Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania at Philadelphia; Rev. Thomas C. Pears, Jr., director, and Miss M. H.
Turner, associate librarian, of the Presbyterian Historical Society at Phila-
delphia; Rev. S. M. Tenney, curator of the Historical Foundation of the
Presbyterian and Reformed Churches at Montreat, North Carolina; Mrs. Lois
Mulkearn, of the University of Pittsburgh Library; and Miss Annie A. Nunns,
of the Wisconsin State Historical Society at Madison.
Every title in the list has been cleared through the Union Catalog
of the Library of Congress, and special acknowledgment is due to Mr. George
A. Schwegmann, Jr., director, for the careful attention with which these
titles have been checked with the information available from the resources
of that catalog.
Valuable assistance has been given by a number of persons not connected
with libraries. Mr. C. R. Staples, of Lexington, has been most helpful in
reporting a large number of early Kentucky titles of which he had knowledge
from various sources. Mr. J. Kinston Coleman, Jr., and Hon. Samuel M. Wilson,
both of Lexington, and Mr. William Marshall Bullitt, of Louisville, have been
most generous in providing check lists of their private collections, with
descriptions of some notable rarities in their possession.
To these and others who have assisted cordial appreciation is hereby
expressed.
Douglas C. McMurtrie
Consultant to the National Director
The Historical Records Survey
ยท Evanston, Illinois
November 29, l938