David C. Mearns papers, 1830-1979 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

Container	Contents

	Subject File, 1931-1967 (continued)
		National Arts Foundation
		National Cultural Center
BOX 91		National Humanities Foundation
		National Library of Medicine
		National Library Week
		National Register of Manuscript Collections
		National Society of Autograph Collectors, Annual Meeting, 1949-1952
			(4 folders)
		New York World's Fair, 1964-1965
		Oral History
		Oral History Project, Columbia University
		Pettrich, Ferdinand
		Pledge of Allegiance
		Polish Embassy Exhibit
		Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
		Presidents and Their Books: From Lincoln to LBJ
		Publications Program of the Library of Congress
BOX 92		Putnam, Herbert
			General
			40th Anniversary, 1939
		Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions
		Queen Mary Signatures
		Quotations
		Ram's Head Players
		Research Libraries in the U. S.
		Roberts, Martin A.
		Security Considerations
		Salm-Salm, Princess
BOX 93		Sandburg, Carl
		Sandburg Tribute, Lincoln Memorial
		Senate Office Building Inscription
		Shakespeare Collection in the Library of Congress, Notes
		Shrine Project
		Soviet Literature (re Large Soviet Encyclopedia)
		Special Collections in the Library of Congress
		Stamps, First Day Issues
		Star Spangled Banner
		Stradivari Instruments
		Sullivan Clinton Exposition 1779, Books concerning
		Supreme Court of the United States
		Swem, Earl Gregg
BOX 94		Thanksgiving
		Travel
		Truman Administration Highlights
		Truman Papers
		Union Catalog of Manuscripts
		Unesco Pamphlet Committee
		U. S. Quarterly Book Review
		United States Sanitary Commssion
		Van Patton, Nathan
		Vestvali
		Vollbehr Collection
		War Memorial
		Watterston, George
		Webster, Daniel
		White House
		Whitman, Walt, Notebooks
		Whittall, Gertrude Clarke
		Wide, Wide World
		Williamsburg, Va.
		Wilson Gift
		Women in the Civil War
		Woodrow Wilson Papers
		“X-Z” General
BOX 95-142	Speeches and Writings, 1921-circa 1970
BOX 95-142		Drafts of texts, galley and page proofs, as well as research notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
		Arranged chronologically. Book reviews, miscellaneous radio and television scripts, ghost writings, and introductions of persons are filed at the end of the series along with files for Mearns's books Three Presidents and Their Books, Largely Lincoln, The Lincoln Papers, and The Story Up to Now.
BOX 95		1921-1941
			Apropos of Max Beerbohm. A letter to the Editor of Current Opinion. 6 Apr. 1921. Printed in the May issue of Current Opinion. Vol. 70, No. 5, page 702. 1921
			Aubrey Beardsley's Posthumous Frown. A letter to the Editor of Current Opinion. 10 July 1921. Printed in the September issue of Current Opinion, Vol. 71, No. 3, page 390. 1921
			The Ballad of a Dead King. 1923, Written by Mr. Mearns to amuse his mother.
			Notes on a Bibliography of Bret Harts. 1927.
			The Chambers of the Supreme Court in New York, 1790. Washington, D.C., 1933. JK1561.A5 1790
			The Chambers of the Supreme Court in Philadelphia, 1791-1800, with Verner W. Clapp, Washington, D.C., 1933. JK1561.A5 1800
			The Chambers of the Supreme Court in Washington, 1801-1867, with Verner W. Clapp, Washington, D.C., 1933. JK1561.A5 1867
			Some Materials for a Life of Elias Boudinot Caldwell, with Observations on the Early History of Capitol Hill, with Verner W. Clapp, 1933, F197.036
			A Descriptive List of the Principal Pamphlet Collections in the Library of Congress in 1934. Washington, D.C., 1934. Z733.U63P2
			Egg-rolling on the White House Lawn; Descriptions by Eye-Witnesses of an Ancient Easter Monday Custom in Washington. . . , 1858-1934, with Verner W. Clapp, Washington, D.C., 1935. F195.M43 Office
			Small Backlog 20,547; Mark Twain in Washington 1867-1868. Washington, D.C. PS1332.M35 1935.
			The Mouse Trap Quotation. 22 Jan. 1935. Prepared for Burton Stevenson and quoted by him in The Colonhon and in Famous Single Poems with acknowledgment to Mr. Mearns.
			What the Founders Thought, May 1935.
			Thomas Jefferson, the Architect. Washington, LC, 1936. E332.M53
			F. W. A. A poem honoring Frederick W. Ashley. 17 Dec.1936. Published in D.C. Libraries Jan. 1937, page 39
			The Constitution of the United States; an account of its travels since 17 Sept. 1787, compiled by David C. Mearns and Verner W. Clapp. Washington, D.C., 1937.
			Mr. Archibald MacLeish. Washington (1939?), From D.C. Libraries, Vol. II, No. 1, Oct. 1939
			Magna Carta; the Lincoln Cathedral Copy Exhibited in the Library of Congress; some notes prepared by David C. Mearns and Verner W. Clapp, Washington, D.C., 1939 and 1941. JN147.M4 1939 Same 1941.
			Some Women of Achievement. A typed list, buckram bound, 1939.
			Random Comments on Books Selected for Inclusion in "Outpost" Libraries of the Department of State. Prior to 1940.
			An original play, balcony scenes derived from Shakespeare. Composed by David C. Mearns and Verner W. Clapp. Early 1940's. To be performed before the District of Columbia Library Association, Pierce Hall, Washington, D.C.
			The Five Little Millions and How They Grew: Their Beginnings. A talk delivered to the staff of the Library of Congress in the Coolidge Auditorium. 31 Jan. and 1 Feb. 1940.
			The Library of Congress (140 years old). An address before the Congressional Secretaries ' Club, 21 Mar. 1940. Printed in the Congressional Record, 28 Mar. 1940, Vol. 86, No. 62, pp. 5575-76.
			The Library of Congress: A Brief History. A speech before the Seventy-Second Club, 1 Apr. 1940.
			Lincolnians in the Library of Congress. Paper read before the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, 15 Apr. 1940. Printed in the Congressional Record, Vol. 86, No. 106, 29 May 1940. pp. 10871-10873.
			Tribute to L. H. E. For: The Bookman, Vol. 1, No. 2, 26 November 1940. Stipulation: To be published anonymously.
			The Arsenal. A speech made informally before the Congressional Secretaries' Club, 28 Jan. 1941.
			Lincoln Collections in the Library of Congress. Article published in The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, December 1941. Reprint issued May 1942; 2nd ed. Jan. 1943.
BOX 96		1942-1946
			The Canon-Aid; or, The Egg Which Was Laid on Memorial Day. A Speech before the Librarian's Council held in the Senate Reading Room LC on May 30, 1942. Concerning the acquisition policy of LC.
			The Activities of the Library of Congress in Wartime. A Speech delivered before the Special Libraries Association in Detroit, 20 June 1942. Printed in: Special Libraries, Sept. 1942.
			A Report on Certain Collections in the Library of Congress. Prepared for the American Library Association, Board of Resources of American Libraries. Washington, D.C., 1942. Z733.U63R45
			Biographical foreword to In His Own Country, by Charles Washington Coleman. Privately printed in limited edition, 1942
			A "New" Washington Letter. Article for LC Quarterly Journal, July-Sept. 1943 Vol. 1, No. 1
			Architects and Poets and Prophets. Article for LC Quarterly Journal, Oct.-Dec. 1943 Vol. 1, No. 2
			Another England in the Great South Sea. Article for LC Quarterly Journal, Jan.-Mar. 1944 Vol. 1, No. 3
			The President's Geranium. 1944.
			The Constitution of the United States, together with an Account of its Travels since 17 Sept. 1787, compiled by David C. Mearns and Verner W. Clapp. Third edition, Oct. 1944.
			Mr. Lincoln and the Man Who Bore the Battle. A talk delivered before veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1945.
			The Reference Services of the Library of Congress. Script prepared for the Office of War Information for translation into Italian and broadcast on their Radio University Program. 4 June 1945.
			Lest We Forget. Draft of a speech prepared for possible use on Saturday, 30 June 1945, in connection with the opening of the exhibition of German atrocity pictures sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Evening Star.
			This Is My America. Remarks made in accepting for the Library of Congress a copy of the anthology of poems. "This Is My America" Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, 18 Mar. 1946.
			The Story Up to Now: The Library of Congress, 1800-1946. Reprinted (in 1947) from the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending 30 June 1946.
			The First Sixty Years of the Enoch Pratt Free Library: An Appreciation. 1946.
BOX 97		1947-1948
			The Resources of the Library of Congress for the Study of the War of 1812. Speech delivered before the Society of the War of 1812 at the Jackson Day Dinner, Baltimore, Md., 8 Jan. 1947.
			The Lincoln Year. Speech given informally in the Library of Congress before the Illinois Delegation in Congress on 12 Feb. 1947.
			The Exquisite Inebriation. A speech delivered before the Cleveland Library Club, 27 Feb. 1947.
			Essay in Alteration. A study of and commentary on the New Draft of Planning Committee Report. 28 Feb. 1947.
			Memorandum on the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection. Prepared for incorporation in an article in America, 26 July 1947, pp. 459-461.
			The Lincoln Papers. Article prepared for The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, Vol. IV, No. 8, Dec. 1947, pp. 369-385.
			Nothing Only Plenty of Friends. An article prepared for publication in the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Sunday, 8 Feb. 1948, Vo.. 24, No. 25.
			The Great Reality. A speech delivered before the Friends of the Library of Brown University, 10 Feb. 1948. Repeated with a few deletions before the ladies of The Congressional Club, Washington, D.C., 2 Feb. 1948 and 10 Feb. 1948.
			Reminiscing Letter by Dave Mearns, '16, Recalls Early Days. Published in The Saint Albans News, Vol. 27, No. 9, 2 Mar. 1948, page 4.
			The Significance of the Lincoln Papers: an Exposition by Way of Impression. A paper read before the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, Rock Island, Ill., 22 Apr. 1948.
			Master of Materials: Random Reflections on Reference Librarianship. Lecture delivered before the Department of Library Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 29 Apr. 1948. Printed in The Catholic Library World, Vol. 19, No. 8, May 1948, pp. 249-251; 275, and reprinted in Reference Services, Selected by Arthur Ray Rowland, Shoe String Press, Hamden, Conn., 1964, page 177.
			Foreword to A Catalog of Important Recent Additions to the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, compiled by Frederick R. Goff. Published in LC Quarterly Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, May 1948.
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