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published extensively in the field of the liberalization of suffrage in the
United States, came to pursue this work in the Maryland archives.
The Union Catalogue of manuscript holdings in the United States, long
urged by every organization with historical interests, has finally been
given a start by a grant to The Library of Congress. Preliminary work
has been made a responsibility of Lester K. Born, who visited us to
discuss certain of his problems. We were happy to learn from William
S. Jenkins, Director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and
Research of the University of North Carolina, that he is planning
further to enrich the magnificent collection of microfilm copies of public
documents which he has been gathering at his University and The
Library of Congress for twenty years.

Alany of the other visitors may be of interest to you. The names
of a few of them are listed below: the Reverend Theodore H. Bailey,
Vicar, Middleham Chapel, Calvert County; Rosalie Fellows Bailey,
New York Public Library; Wallace Bulpitt, Restoration Expert,
Illinois State Archives; Donna C. Carruthers, Edinburgh, Scotland;
John T. Caton, Chief, Records Management Division, Illinois State
Library; Howard I. Chapelle, United States National Museum; George
T. Cromwell, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County;
Leon deValinger, Archivist of Delaware; Anne C. Edwards, Librarian,
Goucher College; Ernest M. Eller, Director of Naval History, U. S.
Department of the Navy; Henry Chandlee Forman, Architect for the
Slicer House restoration; Caleb Dorsey, Historian; the Reverend David
F. Gearhart, Rector, St. Paul's Parish, Queen Anne's County; the
Reverend Thomas J. Harte, S. J., The Catholic University of America;
J. R. Heller, III, Department of History, Princeton University; the
Reverend Robert F. Henry, Rector, St. Barnabas Parish, Prince
George's County; Oliver W. Holmes, President, The Society of American
Archivists; Bryden B. Hyde, President, Historic Annapolis, Incor-
porated; the Reverend Roger C. Jones, Rector, Pocomoke Parish,
Worcester County; Vijaya Chandra Joshi, Assistant Director, National
Archives of India; Harry W^T. Kirwin, Department of History-, Loyola
College; Jack LaHart, Microfilm Supervisor, Illinois State Library;
Aubrey C. Land, Chairman, Department of History, University of
Maryland; Samuel C. Linton, Jr., Charles County Delegate to the
General Assembly; Elizabeth Merritt, Editor, Archives of Maryland;
John F. Miller, Assistant to the Director, Bureau of Public Records
Collection and Research of The University of North Carolina; Kenneth
Munden, Chairman, Committee on Federal-State Relations, The Society
of American Archivists; John Pearce, Research Fellow, Winterthur