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II. The Books and Papers as Deposited. |
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||
II. The Books and Papers as Deposited.
I do not find quite all of the Biddle deposit, as itemized in the receipt
given him by the Society; for example, no vocabularies and no maps.
detached from the red books, and thus already accounted for. All the
loose manuscript above specified is supposed to be included in the Biddle
deposit. But I find four books from other sources remaining to be
accounted for.[3] As to their deposits, therefore, the Lewis and Clark
manuscripts fall into the following arrangement:
The Biddle deposit, fourteen bound volumes, viz.: Two of the
four small marble books; the one brown book; and eleven of the thirteen
red books. With these belong all the loose papers, as above said.The Jefferson deposit, consisting of three bound volumes. Two
of these are small marble books, matching the other two deposited by
Biddle. Each is by both Lewis and Clark, and each consists of miscellaneous
field notes, mainly on zoölogy and botany. They now form
Codices Q, R. The third volume is one of the red books. It is a
Clark, and contains miscellaneous notes, chiefly on natural history. It
is now Codex P. These three were deposited by Mr. Jefferson in
November,[4] 1817, as appears by memorandum in each of them, in
Biddle's hand.Unknown deposit: One of the thirteen red books without record
of source whence obtained. This is a Lewis, and consists of certain
astronomical observations and geographical notes. It is now Codex O.[5]
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Coues is mistaken in his description of the Biddle deposit. It consisted of the
fourteen volumes of the journals (Coues's codices A to N); a book of astronomical
observations (Codex O); a small copy-book containing some notes by Lewis (a book
he had previously used while paymaster in the army in 1800, and in which he entered
his weather diary from January, 1804, to April, 1805); two statistical tables of Indian
tribes (for description, see Ethnological Data); and a rough draught of his letter to the
president announcing his return (Codex S). Biddle expressly says that the vocabularies
and maps had passed from his hands; and the "Meteorological Register" is
not detached leaves, but the small copy-book containing the weather diary.—Ed.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||