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Since the last annual meeting we have received from George L. Blanchard newspapers and a cane made of wood from the "Long Bridge" across the Potomac over which the Northern armies passed. From G. K. Sabine, commission from Isaac Tichenor to Frederick Pettes. From Miss Clara Farrar Smith and brother, Civil war maps, photographs, autographed portraits, etc., formerly the property of their father, Gen. William Farrar ("Baldy") Smith. From Rev. C. H. Merrill a complete file of the Vermont Missionary. From Byron N. Clark a complete file of the Vermont Y. M. C. A. Notes. From George Briggs a large framed portrait of Stephen A. Douglas. From Willis Blanchard the Kinsman genealogy, from Mrs. Cameron a stuffed seal. From Mrs. Alfred Swift Houghton a grant of Georgia from George III to the province of New Hampshire, together with 109 other commissions, writs, leases, deeds, etc.

From Jennie R. Fuller a stuffed two-headed calf, which has been transferred to the State Museum cabinet. From Harold G. Rugg books and broadsides. From Horace L. Wheeler a Pilgrim Tercentenary medal, one of 300 struck by the Boston Numismatic Society. From Emery A. Melendy the record book of the Baptist Church in Arlington. From James B. Wilbur about 50 letters to and from J. B. Hollenback, 1831-36. From Charles H. Reade, "The Reades of Blackwood Hill". From the Vermont Society of the Daughters of the War of 1812, a Macdonough's victory plate, and the dress uniform coat, cocked hat and cap worn by Capt. Horace B. Sawyer of the U. S. navy.

From Mrs. Peck the sword and oil portrait of her husband, Gen. James Stevens Peck. From his daughters, an oil painting of Benjamin F. Fifield. From Dow J. Adams an old wrought-iron toaster.

From William H. Jeffrey a ballot cast for Lincoln for president, and the original book kept by the Confederate government, listing with dates, etc. the prisoners on their

entrance to Libby prison. From Mrs. Jeffrey, an ancient bedquilt of a rare design.

From Rev. F. Barnby Leach, a gun and prayer-book formerly owned by Rev. William Arthur, father of President Arthur.

From a source not to be divulged, the warming pan known to have been the property of Col. Jacob Davis, the first settler of Montpelier, and a dish thought to have been owned by Ira Allen.

From Henry Newton Stevens of London, Enos Stevens' Journal from 1778 to 1801, in manuscript, and a large number of Stevens papers, old commissions, transcripts, etc., all of great age.

Enos Stevens was the father of Henry Stevens, the founder of the Vermont Historical Society. Enos, the father lived on the east side of the State during the twenty-four years in which he kept this journal, and it contains a mine of valuable information never published concerning the present territory of Vermont in those early times. By all means would I recommend the publication of this journal. It would make a large book, and although Stevens was inclined to side with the Tories, his observations and records of events make fascinating reading to an historical student or to any other person.

In addition to the accessions enumerated above, we are continuing to receive from the Vermont Society of Colonial Dames, genealogies bought by them to be placed with us for permanent preservation.

We have this year received from the daughter of the late Theodore N. Vail his entire collection of Vermont items. Mr. Vail was not a collector of the extreme rarities, but he had a large library of Vermont books, and they make a valuable addition to our shelves.

I have secured during the year the few lacking portraits in our collection of Vermont governors. We now have

pictures of all fifty-five, down to Gov. Hartness, and I am of course in correspondence with him concerning his.

There is no other one place on earth where you can see the likenesses of all the Vermont governors, and there seems to be nothing else, new or old, in our rooms, that attracts as much attention as does this collection of portraits.

Our correspondence is continually increasing, which clearly reveals the fact that more and more people are anxious to secure "long-distance" knowledge concerning their Vermont ancestry.

I am pleased now to pay an appreciative tribute to the past and present janitor force in our building. No rooms could be kept cleaner than ours, and the janitors without exception are courteous, careful and painstaking in all their dealings with us and our property.

The large oil painting of the immortal Washington which strikes the eye when one first enters the building, continues to draw into our quarters every stranger who opens the front door, "the sun still shines" most of the time, and all we seem to need at present is more money.

Our membership of late is increasing very rapidly, and I am certain that to you and to all of us this is a source of gratification. I could never quite see, nor can I yet, why any person who could afford it, and there are 50,000 adults in Vermont who can, since it costs less than a third of a cent a day, could refuse to become a sustaining member of a Society whose duty and pleasure it is to discover, record and preserve the doings of interest not alone of their ancestors but as well of themselves and their neighbors today, in order that they may be handed down for the education of many a generation yet unborn.

Yours with respect,

DORMAN B. E. KENT,

Librarian.

TREASURER'S REPORT 1919

HENRY L. FARWELL, TREASURER, IN ACCOUNT WITH VERMONT HISTORI

1919

CAL SOCIETY.

Jan. 14 To amount on hand from last report $ 975.31

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