The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
French Travels in Early Years
Histories and Biographies
Records Of Many
Kinds.
A Labor of Love and Leisure
Which Will be Valuable
To Future Aistor-
ians.

uaila IOreuOSt cItIZeus, Has pTODdDiy
the finest and fullest private collection
of public documents and books re-
lating to Missouri that can be found
anywhere in the state.
The work of making his invaluable
and splendid collection has been
carried on for many years and has
been a labor of love in leisure mo-
ments, if the paradoxical expression
may be permitted.
The BAzOo's literary young man
had the pleasure of looking through
this .i,rary yesterday morning, as
sisted by Mr.. Sampson. Everything
is very neatly classified, catalogued
and arranged so that he can place his
hand on it at moments notice.
In this superb collection is a cata-
logue of books relating to Missouri,
among them being biographies OF men
who have made history Of one kind
and another for the state-General
Frank p. Blair, Kit Carson, Daniel
Boone, Mark Twain, Major John n.
Edwards, General Grant, General
w. S. Harvey, Frank and Jesse
James, Frederick T. Kemper. U. S.
Senator Lewis F. Linn, General
Lyon, Bishop E. r. Marvin and
many others of state, national and
worldwide reputation.
The list of French travels and his
tories in the Territory of Louisiana,
which once included Missouri, is very
extensive.
The catalogue Of novels, whose
scenes and plots are partly or wholly
laid in Missouri, is most interesting
one. 1t includes one by the late E.
P. Roe-"The Virginia Rose"-in
which the great and disastrous earth
quake OF 1871 is wildly and dramat-
ically described. There are nine of
these novels.
There are thirty sermons delivered
BY prominent Missouri preachers on
various subjects and special occa-
sions.
In the state there are III counties,
and Mr.. Sampson has aliases of
twenty-four out of the whole number.
His array of county histories num-
bers thirty-five large quarto volumes,
and is the most complete and useful
owned by any library or individul in
the state.
There are the proceedings of
conventions, national and general,
dating from lS36-when one
was held for 1.-The Promotion of
Internal ImprOvements"-up to the
present time.
Twenty-eight different pamphlets,
neatly printed, describe as many OF
the mineral springs of Missouri.
There are also thirty pamphlets de-
scriptive of the resources, histories
and topography of various counties
and localities.
In this rare collection there is a
great lot of political addresses, hand
books and campaign literature dating
back many years.
Mr.. Sampson has seventy speeches
made by members OF congress from
Missouri, dating back to 1869, and
covering a wide field.
His catalogue of travels in Missouri
is an interesting one. 1t embraces a
book entitled -Four Months in a
Sneak Box"-descriptlve of a trip
down the Mississippi; also. ''Excur-
sion through the Slave States" dated
1874, by G. w. FeatherstonhOugh.
There are twenty-nine volumes in this
list.
The collection Of important speeches
and addresses in Missouri numbers
seventy-six and many of them could
not be duplicated.
There is list of fifteen or twenty
Missouri poets-iucludiDg three PAM
phlets by c. l.. Phifer, of California;;
''StarDust" by Fannie Isabel Sherrick
of St. Louis; 1.-The Masque of the
MUSES." by Thomas E. Garrett, also
of st. Louis.
There are complete school board
reports Of St. Louis, Kansas City, st.
Joseph, Springfield, Sedalia, Hanni-
bal and other cities and towns.
There are boards of trade reports,
city ordinances, annual railroad re-
ports, etc. The Missouri Horticult-
ural society was first organized, long
before the Civil war. under the name
Missouri Fruit Growers associa-
ton There are reports OF this also.
There IL n fi,lI Set nf renorts of the