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ARCHIVIST OF THE HALL OF RECORDS 23
Publication Number 11 of the Hall of Records Commission, Calendar
of Maryland State Papers No. 5, Executive Miscellanea
This volume, which appeared last year and which completed our
series of calendars, received favorable notice in The American Archivist
(January 1959), the Maryland Historical Magazine (March 1959), and
the William and Mary Quarterly (July 1959).
The following articles and reviews were published by members of
the Hall of Records staff:
RADOFF, MORRIS L., Articles for the American Oxford Encyclopedia:
"Maryland," "Baltimore," "George Calvert. First Lord Baltimore,"
"Ceciiius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore."
WHITE, FRANK F., JR., "The Comet Harasses the British," Md. Hist.
Mag., December 1958.
Reviews of The Negro in Indiana Before 1900: A Study of A Minority,
by Emma Lou Thornbrough, Journal of The Illinois Slate Historical
Society, Autumn 1958; Created Equal? The Complete Lincoln-Douglas
Debates of 1858, edited bv Paul Angle, Md. HisL Mag., September
1958; Fort Delaware, by W. Emerson Wilson, Md. HisL Man..
December 1958; Maryland in World War II: Home Front Activities,
edited bv War Records Division, Marvland Historical Societv,
Md. Hist. Map., June 1959.
REPAIR AND BINDING
I regret to report to you that our year in the repair room was a
disappointing one. By an unfortunate coincidence, both of the full-
time Manuscript Repair Technicians and the part-time volunteer worker
suffered long illnesses. The table below giving the number of pages
laminated during the last years reflects the loss of work time in fiscal
year 1959.
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Pages
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Laminated
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1956
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1957
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1958
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1959
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25,954
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27,160
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27,980
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22,272
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In addition to the long illness already noted, the staff member
assigned to binding record volumes resigned February 3, 1959. She
was not replaced until the very end of the fiscal year. The table below
gives the product, therefore, of less than one-half year's work.
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Record Books
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Bound
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1956
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1957
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1958
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1959
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60
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72
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68
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27
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For some years now we have sought some means of quickly identify-
ing the large accumulation of county land records, all of them out-
wardly identical, at the Hall of Records. We have not wished to dis-
turb the libers of the various clerks who have created the records, but
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