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of Washington sold To- SJ,-. an q tier
of his sold for So. You can get no Idea
OF prices by the publications. concerning
the sales. The newspapers mention only
the highest price paid, and nothing Is
said Of the letters which go for attic
At the same sale where the WasA.ngt or
address brought 81 ion 2 l.fter - Henry
Gay may have sold fos s. %
Il would say. also Mr Hunt CON
tinued. that the library does not buy
autographs. II does 40, care for sig
natures, pure and simple. aor does if
want single letters without they are OF
historical value. We buy Urly collections.
II would be rather absurd for us TO pay
for single letters OF Washington. when
our collection Of Washington letters al
ready numbers over iu0.oOo.'
And then. Mr. Hunt continued, take
the extravasant !GCas some people have
concerning such papers. Noi long ago a
man offered US a set OF revolutionary
roll books He considered them very cal
liable and he asked $1,000 for the dozen
i'm his collection. calculated tbe value
of the number of such books we had on
hand and at the price he asked our col
lection would have heen worth S3'a.coO
for Those books alone.
Then your collection is historical
rather than autographs
Yes, the autographic interest of the
papers is the least important. This col
lection might be called the raw material
of American history. and as to Just how
valuable il is | can give you no adequate
conception ] would say that there is
not single important period of Ameri-
can history that has been truly written.
and that there is not a single incident of
Importance of which the manuscripts
here in the library do not disturb the ac-
cepted version OF IL. Even such story
;,s that of the making the Declaration or
Independence is wrong. The library has
Information in these manuscripts as TO
who actually wrote Il and as TO the cir
cumstances under which II was sent out.
The story is different from any publish
ed and IL is yet to be told. Another thing
is the framing of the Constitution or the
United States. We have manuscripts In
the Madison papers and in other records
which throw new light upon that subject.
About two years ago monumental
work entitled THE Records of the Con
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dies of shame! After losing bets at Au-
teuil, and winning Spanish treasure at
auction bridge, Zuleika retGrned to home
ly Stamboul and became an honest Turkish
woman, who will wear henceforth no hat.
and as for showing the world the nape of
her neck, fie, she would die of shame
i x
Nurieh Hanum has at her disposal one
of the best purely Turkish libraries in
Stamboul. and thus-without going out of
doors since the end of September-she is
able to fill Kadinlar Dunjasse with clever
articles on THE Role of Greek Women in
History" Influences of Harem Life on
Political Stagnation in the Reign of
Selim III" The Trial of Little Bediah"
and The Last Kick of Polygamy."
This last article is based on the great
decline in Turkish divorce cases, which
results from the circumstance that now
adays practically no Turk has a second
wife. However. there are exceptions, and
one of Nurieh's best supporters Is Mime
HALL, who is "Boeyuek Hanum," or head
wife of several. to a rich landowner OF
Broussa. Nine. HALL herself writes ar
ticles on religious education. The rules
against writing politics was broken be-
cause Nurieh Hanum was Ill on the day
Adrjanople was recaptured, and the days
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No C0nnoisSeur.

DRAIsING the wines of California.
olive perc:val. the author, said at
tea in Ciarvaiza:
''The people who sneei al California
wines are tle ones who judge a bottle
contents by the label. They have no
taste such people They are like the
coiifeur I'm the beauty parlor
AS This coiffeur bent over iadys
auburn heau at the lunch hour an asso-
clate coiffeur entered the room and
roared:
say, you! You're tinting that lady's
hair with my beer!'
Goodness" said the other coifeur.
must have drunk the dye, then! F"
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must sit The arrangement is such that
the readers are never out of sight of the
chief Of the division or his assistant. the
room is flooded with light, and all han
ding OF the papers is done under the
ArSus-eyes of the attendants. Even the
private office of Mr.. GailIard Hunt is
surrounded by glass. and be has the
whole of the workings constantly before
him
Around the reading room are cases
which contain a card index catalogue to
certain divisions of the collection. This
index is a general one. The material Is
vast that IL would be impossible to in
dex it in detail. and il is only by coming
here in person that the historical student
or writer can get the material for MS
work.
Nevertheless. these hundreds of thou
sands OF letters and papers nave Deeh
made wonderfully accessible. and they
are being SO cared for that from now on
they will be practically indestructfble.
Come with me into the book stacks
where the manuscripts are kept we
are i'll a great room 100 feet or more
long. filled with steel cases, which run
back on each side from central aisle
The cases are i'll stacks three stories
high The whole is a skeleton of steel
The rooms are fireproof. and the manu-
scripts are stored away in great volumes
having its own place in this steel con-
struction There are thousands of these
volumes. each containing hundreds OF
pages. and each page holding a letter or
paper. many of which worta their
weight in gold. The papers are ciassi-
fed according to the President or period
to which they relate. Many of them are
in collections, such as the Washington
documents the Madison documents and
the John Sherman papers, but all are
chronoiogically arranged. and every let
ter and paper has been so prepared and
pasted that ii can be easily got at to be
photographed or copied
When you remember that, ] have
sa i'd the collection already numbers sew
eral millions of letters and papers, one
can appreciate the vast work that is
going en-. At present force of three men
and three women engaged in mount
ing the documents. The papers as bought
by the library are often in deplorab1e
condition, but they are taken and treated
SO that they will last forever. Each
has its own trea tment ac-
cording to it's needs the work being an
on that originated by Father
Ehrly of the Vatican library. who until
the work began here was the past master
in the art of preserving and renovating
old manuscripts. One method used to
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Presidents This was especially so with
the money paid for the Madison papers
It was. TO relieve the wants OF Dolly
Madison, and the money was so appro-
priated that il was paid to her in install
ments. This was mostly on account of
her wayward son. Payne Todd. who had
spent the greater part of his mothers
fortune and who would have probably
spent this if he could have gotten it. II
was due to this provision that Dolly Mad
ison had sufficient to maintain her in her
old age. She died in comfort here at her
house on Lafayette Park.
'-Has Congress recently bought any inn
portant collection of manuscripts"
No. Congress has bought no collections
by direct appropriation for a great many
years, The library itself has bought a
large number. but n great part of our
manuscripts are given to us. The ac-
cessions to the division come in three
different ways. Some of them are given.
others are bought at "A fair price, and
others are sold to the library for a sum
entirely out of proportion to their value.
Many people would not sell their papers
to any other institution or person, but
being poor they are willing to take what
the government thinks ii can give. which
is always much less than the same manu-
script would bring at private sale.
"Can you give me any idea OF the
prices of manuscripts?
There is no such thing as a market
price" said Mr.. Hunt. THE price de
pends upon the temper OF the buyer.
There may be four or five rich men in
the market buying certain kinds Of auto
graphs and if you should have an auto
graph document that is along the line
they want ii iS worth as much as they
are willing to sive for it. Ii only one
of them wants Il ii IS not worth much.
II they all want Il the price is fabulous.
The library dots not pay 4 high price
and il could rot do under amy cir-
cumstances. IT il dio. a l,erson hav >
family letters t:;at were really worth lit
tie might get an idea that they were OF
fabulous value.
What is the highest price ever paid
for an American manuscript?
81 do not know. Havemeyer paid 81, 400
for the draft of Washingtons farewell
address. At the same sale "a manuscript
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HUNT, L CHARGE OF UNCLE SANS MANUSCRIPTS

given. These few, however, We're valu-
able. They contained, for example the
papers of Rochambeau, which the gov
ernment had bought from his family and
the jamestown court book, which came
with the Jefferson library. which was
bought by Congress during the latter
part of Jefferson's life. And then there
were the private papers of John Paul
Jones and others, which were of great
value.
''The jamestown court book gives the
proceedings of the court at jamestown
from A. ID. 1922 to 1926. 1t is the Oldest
English American document in existence.
This book was in bad condition when ii
arrived here. 1t had been lying in a cell
lar and had got wet through ana through.
We have in a measure embalmed II and
IL is now as we'll preserved as If it were
in a metal casket. The writing is n the
court hand Of the seventeenth century
THE library owes much to President
Roosevelt continued Mr.. Hunt lie
caused all the private papers and manu-
scripts OF the State Department to be
transferred to this division. That de-
partment had no place for them, AMI
they were not accessible. These. papers
are all here. They include those of
George Washington. Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, the rec
ords of the Continental Congress and the
papers OF Benjamin Franklin
How did the State Department acquir
those papers?" | asked.
They were bought by Congress away
back in the forties. For some unknown
reason Congress was particularly gener
Gus at that period and it appropriated
large sum for the purchase of the papers
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
Hamilton 1t paid about $4,000 for the
first installment of the Washington pa
pers and about the same for the second
installment. IT bought two sets of Madi
son papers, giving $4,000 for one and
$4,000 for another. It gave $4,000 for
the papers of Alexander Hamilton and
about $4,000 for those Of James Monroe.
1t also gave $4,000 for the jefferson pa
pers.
These payments had no reference to
the value of the manuscripts. and they
were mostly made in order to assist the
descendants of the several statesmen and
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The Irreverent Cynic.

ToHN d. ROCKEFELLER. JR.. was
J condemning cynicsm az Seal Harbor.
Nothing is holy 10 the cynic, he said
why, even marriage is a target for his
darts
Apropos of married man whose ar
fairs had become involved, I said the
other day AT The club:
Poo. old smith. He's got good
wife, though. It's when a man = In trou-
BILE that he learns the value or a wife.
Yes sneered the cyn!c over his glass
of butterlniik yes, he can put his prop
erty in her name, eh?
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keep the tattered and torn and crum-
bling wor1n-eaten papers together is by
smoothing them out and covering tbem
with d fine silk gauze known as crepe
line This stuff is so delicate that il can
hardly be detected, when it covers the
writing, but it holds the papers for all
time to come.
But let continue the story of this
collection by giving you talk that
had with Mr. Gaillard Hunt, who has
been chief of the division of manuscripts
of the library for the past five years
Mr.. Hunt has long been well known as
an historical writer. He has for years
been an authority upon all manuscripts
and facts relating TO American history.
He is the author of the well known b-
ogra phies of James Madison and John C.
Calhoun and he was the editor of the
great edition of the writings of Madison
in eight volumes, of the First Forty
Years of Washington Society and of
large part of the journals of the Con-
tinental Congress. He knows as much.
If not more. than any otter man in the
United States about manuscripts and es
pecially about those relating to our his
tory. He had a long experience connected
with the manuscripts CT the State De-
partment before he came here. and his
work is known in all the great Libraries
of the world.
In response to my question Mr.. Hunt
said:
The manuscript division began when
the library came into this building,
which was Approximately ten years ago.
It has been increasing in size very rapid
ly within the past five years. and it has
now taken it's place among the first
three manuscript collections of the world.
The credit of this is due first to the power
of organization of Mr.. Putnam. second
ly TO the work of Worthington c. Ford.
who was the first chief OF this division,
and thirdly to my persistsncy in follow
ing up the policy laid down by Mr.. Ford.
Mr.. Ford IS the greatest authority on
manuscripts in this country He is now
employed in the library at Boston. and
I have taken his place.
What MANUSCRIPTS had you in the
library at the start?
x
Very few. When Mr.. Ford took hold
there were several collections of docu-
ments that had been acquired in one
way or another in the course of its long
history The origin of some of them is
not known. Others had been bought or
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wife, and only wife, of the journalist
Melva Ma Sade Rifaat Bey. Rifaat is a
distinguished publicist and he owns the
Serbesti, which at present is suspend
ed and also owns printing establish
ment where kadinlar Dunjasse is printed
Bimbir Derek. where he hangs out. is
unlike any other center of innovation,
either in Frankish Pera, in Greco-Arme-
nian Galata or in Turkish Stamboul itself.
and il is one of the oldest. least-spoiled.
most Moslem parts of Stamboul ; 1t is a
tangle of ancient. dilapidated houses, COW
cred with vines; there is turbaned
gravestone lying in the middle of the
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the American colonies. 1t consists of
gathering together from every avail
able source the private papers and let
ters of our Presidents and our greatest
statesmen. II includes the transcrib-
ing from the archives of foreign coun-
cries every document that relates to
the American colonies. as well as all
the material in manuscript form that
sheds hight upon The true story of the
.nlakiug Of the American nation.
Already Che manuscript division of
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The Happy Man.

7 ORD HALDANE. leaving New York.
- expressed his displeasure over the
frequency of American divorce.
I'm the train from Philadelphia the
other day. he said. two young and
pretty women sat near me.
SO Cora Brown Is married, eh2 said
the first.
Yes, married last week. the other
answered.
And who il the happy man.
why, John Brown. of course, whose
FIVE thousand dollar alimony now
ceases.
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leading article was written by her cousin,
the poetess. Nine. Said Hamid Bey.
This was Nine. Said Hamids FIRST Try at
editing and she indicted "A fiery PHILIPPE
against Europe, declaring that Adfianople
must never be surrendered, and appealing
to all maids. wives and widows Of Islam
TO die in the Martha rather than hand
over the temples and tomhs of con-
duerors to bloodstairfeG Christian hands
And this article highly frightened the
grand vizier and his ministers, who are
afraid il they had to give up Adrianople
their position VIII be made uncomfortable
by Islam's maids, widows and wives. and
still more uncomfortable by the fathers
and husbands of the maids and wives.
That was the cause of the mission OF
Monsieur Muchbil Bey on his fiery steed.
and the CONSERVATION caused by good
looking Muchbil in vine-clad Bimbr
Derek. But though Muchbil Bey did not
see Nurieh Hanum the kadinlar Dunjasse
has since kept clear of politics.
Nurieh Hanum says she is going farther
than mere preaching. She will follow pre-
cept with example by opening IN Stamboul
a big department store. the purpose OF
which will be to teach to Turkish maids
the dignity and profit of work. Only Tur-
kish maids will be employed. This for
Stamboul is a novelty. as at present the
only women that serve in stores are
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lar Dunjasse and of all its co-edi-
tresses, ieader-writeresses and secre-
taresses is that they are running this
first woman's daily paper on sound
old Turkish, anti-feminist lines. and
they have as much horror as any
odalisaue of Abdul Hamid for bare
faces hats. split skirts, the orgy Of
undress and votes for women. They
also abjure the corrubting French Ian
guage. French novels and Pierre Lott,
and aim simply ut regenerating Tur-
keys women on sound TuThey-red
lines.
Nurieh Ulrieh is the thirty year -oId
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No Man Has a Part
in Its Production Ex-
cept as Adviser-Is
Edited by Mime. Nurieh
Ulvieh Hanum, Thirty
Year-Old Wife of a Fa-
nous Turkish Publicist,
and She Is Said to Be
Uncommonly Pretty
Although Being of the
Old Turkish School,
She Keeps Her Face
Discreetly Hi d d en-
Erom Male Eyes :
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Millions of Unpub-
lished Letters of the
Presidents and Amerl-
can StateSmen-Where
the Papers Come From
and What They Cost
High Prices for Manu-
scripts-New Light on
the Declaration of
independence and the
Constitutional Conven-
tion = a Talk With
Mr.. Gaillard Hunt, the
American Historian.
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Super Optimism.

OPTIMISrS are all right, provided they
~ are not unreasoning and excessive,
said a fusion leader, at fusion luncheon
In New York.
THE optimism OF our opponents" he
went on, reminds me OF Smith. A drug
gist said TO Smith one night at the lodge:
There's Il movement on foot 10 make
drugs cheaper.
"'Goodt' said Smith. Good, That will
bring sickness within the reach of ALL %
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Greeks or Armenians. Hurie! Hanum
says she will herself run the store. She
does not explain how she'll mana sc II il
she keeps to her old Tursish practice of
staying az home fer sixty 'le-As on end.
However. civilized Stamboul now has
telephones. and Nurirh Hanum VIII be
able to give her orders itbOui the sale of
boots and hnlva and Turkish delight
without exposing ;he nape OF her neck.
tcopyright. 1913. 10y Curtis Brown,
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She is content to stay in Turkey. Her
husband. Rifaat, is a great traveller, Who
has been all over Europe, and even in
America. He speaks five Languages. But
Nurieh has never accompanied him; she
is horrified at the notion, and all the IAN
guage she knows is "merci bien. Her
newspaper exalts and holds up for imita-
ton the activity of European women and
the European love of work, but 1t ex-
presses detestation of some Of Europe's
ways.
Women" says Nurieh, must De
taught how to bring up their children.
That they do best in Europe. But 20 go
to theater, to wear a hat, to show the
nape of my neck-fie! l should die OF
shame.
KadinIar Dunjasse, shortly after 1ts
first appearance, published articles in this
spirit by Nine Selim Bey (Zuleika Ha-
num), who is a great niece of the Crimean
hero, Omar Pasha. Zuleika Hanum had
been all over Europe. She described with
shame how she appeared in hat on the
Auteuil race course. and afterWard now
she went to the Ottoman embassy anu
played auction bridge with uncovered
face with two Spanish gentlemen. When
she thinks of that degradation she almost
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the past
five years some
of the most i'm =
portant historical
work ever done
for this nation
has been going
on in the Library
of Congress in
ashington. This
is the collection
of the raw ma
terial of the his
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WO days Alter
Adrianople w a s
re C a p t u red M.
NJ u C h b ii Bey,
a b ! a C k = e y e d,
dashing cavalier
of the ministry of
the interior, and
nephew OF the
late Gov: Hussein
Bey, galloped up
on a fiery steed TO
w n dy Eimbir
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"IIave YOU many documents relating 10
our colonial days"
I'VE have the papers Of the revolu-
ton. and those OF the Continental Con-
gress The latter begin with the First
Congress in liza. and they extend TO
March .. lTS9 when the Congress died
After that We have the Congress as un-
der the Constitution of the United States.
None of those papers has ever been
printed Indeed. il is out of the ques-
ton for any man TO write about matters
relating to American history without
coming here. The Information IL not ac-
cessible elseW here. and We have our
manuscripts now so arranged that We
can tell students where 10 40 without
waste OF time.
The documents cannot be taken away
from the library Indeed. great many
have been given only on the specific
agreement that they would never go out
side our hands They can. however. he
examined here and copied or photo
graphed. This is, OF course. for historic
purposes. I, is not for sensational writ
ing. and not as to the publication or
letters relating IT, persons now living.
Many of the papers have been given to
the library on the condition that they
should not he put 10 any sensational
use. The later papers. such as those or
John sherman and other men OF recent
date. might. if published, involve many
men still in public life. We have To re-
strict that. Indeed. OF all the papers
after the time of James X. Polk We
have TO adopt more or less restrictions.
FRANK c.. CARPENTER
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Derek and asked to see the editress OF
Kadinlar Dunjasse the Woman's
World Nine Nurieh U1vieh Hanum
said, mo" Trouble. 1t seemed, was In
store. Kadinlar Dunjasse is the
great, the first ladies' daily newspaper
coneessioned by the Young Turk gov
ernment. and II got the concession only
on the solemn condition that 1t keeps
off high politics. Usually 1t keeps the
rule.
And now, two days after Adrianople's
recapture. Kadinlar Dunjasse came out
with a brave, exalted article on the
revived glory of ISLAM And this dis
pleased the Young Turks. who are
afraid of too much enthusiasm over
Adrianople, and, therefore. sent down
good looking Muchoil on his fiery
steed.
NJ. Muchbil not only did not
see Nine Nurieh U1vieh Hanum. but
he did not even see the rose-pink veil
which. forswearing the customary veil
of black. she wears over her uncom-
monty pretty face. Not that any man
knows IL is pretty. And no man viii
ever know Fer the miracle of kadin