William Wallace Tooker papers, [18--]-1917.
Collection Number: 9187
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Wallace Tooker papers, [18--]-1917.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
9187
Abstract:
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names
on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics.
Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages.
Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts
made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index
cards for all the items included.
Creator:
Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917.
Ackerly, O. B.
Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Pelletreau, William S. (William Smith), 1840-1918.
Smith, John, 1580-1631.
Strachey, William, 1572?-1621. (Title of work: Dictionarie of the Indian Language..)
Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897.
Huntington Free Library
Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
William Wallace Tooker once was widely recognized as one of his era's leading specialists
in Coastal Algonquian culture, history and place names. A prolific writer, he published
12 books, some 50 pamphlets and over 100 articles between 1888 and 1911. During his
life and for many years thereafter, nearly every scholar interested in one aspect
or another of Coastal Algonquian life routinely consulted his work.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names
on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics.
Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages.
Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts
made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index
cards for all the items included.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Wallace Tooker papers, #9187. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Objects associated with this collection are at the National Museum of the American
Indian.
Names:
Gib, Andrew.
Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925.
Canfield, James A.
Gardiner, John Lyon.
Horton, Azariah.
Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917.
Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683. (Title of work: Key into the language of America..)
Wright, Harry Andrew.
Places:
Virginia.
Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Southold (N.Y.)
Southampton (N.Y.)
Patchogue (N.Y.)
Martha\'s Vineyard (Mass.)
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Long Island (N.Y.)
Little Neck (New York, N.Y.)
Huntington (N.Y.)
Gardiner\'s Island (N.Y.)
East Hampton (N.Y.)
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brookhaven (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Names, Indian -- North America.
Names, Geographical -- Virginia.
Names, Geographical -- Pennsylvania -- Susquehanna.
Names, Geographical -- New York. (State) -- Suffolk County.
Names, Geographical -- New York. (State) -- Southampton.
Names, Geographical -- New York. (State) -- Patchogue.
Names, Geographical -- Massachusetts -- Martha\'s Vineyard.
Names, Geographical -- New York. (N.Y.) -- Manhattan.
Names, Geographical -- New York. (State) -- Long Island.
Names, Geographical -- Virginia -- Chickahominy.
Names, Geographical -- Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Names, Geographical -- New York. (N.Y.) -- Brooklyn.
Names, Geographical.
Unkechaug Indians.
Susquehanna Indians.
Shinnecock Indians.
Rappahannock Indians.
Powhatan language.
Powhatan Indians.
Poosepatuck Indians.
Pamunkey Indians.
Nowedonah Indians.
Montauk Indians.
Massachuset language.
Massachuset Indians.
Kuskarawaoke Indians.
Delaware language.
Delaware Indians.
Algonquian languages.
Algonquian Indians.
Indian title.
Indian land transfers.
Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
Indians of North America -- Dictionaries.
Indians of North America -- Claims.
Indians of North America -- Rhode Island.
Indians of North America -- New York (State).
Indians of North America -- Massachusetts.
Indians of North America.
CONTAINER LIST
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Description
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| Box 1 | Folder 0 |
Printed guide and information, including card index
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Indian geographical names on Long Island, New York. 19 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 20
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Algonquian names for the rainbow (manuscript). 4p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 40
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Notes on the Algonquian verb (after James Hammond Trumbull). 11p.
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Also available on Reel 1, Frame 47
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Abstracts of the journals of Mr. Azariah Horton
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Horton was a missionary to the Indians on Long Island, in the employ of "The Society
in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge." These journals were printed in "The
Christian Monthly History, or An Account of the Revival and Progress of Religion,
Abroad and at Home", published in Edinburgh in Scotland. These abstracts are intended
to furnish names of places visited and persons mentioned mainly. Also some names of
ministers in New England, selected from same publication, and copies of various Indian
deeds. (O.B. Ackerly, February 1894). 42 leaves.
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Also available on Reel 1, Frame 60
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The Indian names of places in Brooklyn, Long Island, with their significations
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(Manuscript and proof sheets) Published in the Brooklyn Eagle Almanac, 1893. 17p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 111
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
On the derivation of the name Manhattan (manuscript). 15p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 129
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
The origin of the name Chesapeake (manuscript). 4p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 144
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Roger Williams vindicated, or an answer to "Keyhole for Roger Williams' Key". (manuscript).
13p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 148
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Rev. Robert Fordham, and His place in history.
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Manuscript by William Wallace Tooker. (Read before the Sag Harbor Historical Society,
April 1, 1902). Article on Nathan Fordham included. 17 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 162
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Vocabulary of the Massachusetts or Natick, from Eliot's Indian Bible. 144p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 178
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Manuscript in relation to the Montauks and the Boundary of the Shinnecocks and the
Unkechaugs, 1665. 2p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 235
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
The Montauk Indians at East Hampton, Long Island, 1723. (manuscript copy). 2p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 238
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Some supposed Indian names of places on Long Island, New York. (manuscript). 7p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 242
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
The aboriginal terms for Long Island published in the Brooklyn Almanac, 1894. (manuscript
and proof). 17 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 249
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Was Southhampton, Long Island, New York, called by the Indians Agawom? (manuscript).
5 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 269
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Vocabulary of the Massachusetts or Natick language taken from Eliot's Indian Bible.
36 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 274
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Indian names of villages and streams from Capt. John Smith's map of Virginia. 51p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 311
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Strachey's "Dictionarie" of the Powhatan language, arranged alphabetically. 65p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 364
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
The name Rappahannock in Virginia. (manuscript). 4p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 430
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
The mystery of the name Pamunkey. (manuscript). Read before the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Section H. August 30, 1895. 9p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 435
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
The name Chickahominy, its origin and etymology. (manuscript). 10p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 444
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
The name Susquehanna, its origin and signification. 9p. (manuscript).
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 453
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Copies of deeds from Indian natives to Andrew Gib, or Gibb, November 1685, and May
1687, involving Little Neck. Brookhaven, Long Island. (Copies by O.B. Ackerly, 1892).
8p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 463
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Copy of the deed from the Indians to the Trustees of Huntington, 1702. (Copied by
O.B. Ackerly, 1894). 2 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 473
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Abstract of the title of William Trist Bailey to certain premises situate in the town
of Islip, Suffolk County, and State of New York. New York 1888. 26p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 488
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
The Kuskarawaokes of Captain John Smith. (manuscript). 8p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 514
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Notes regarding the name Nowedonah. (manuscript). 6p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 522
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Analysis of the claims of Southold, Long Island, for priority of settlement over Southampton,
Long Island, and how they are disproved by the early records and contemporary manuscripts.
(manuscript). 20 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 532
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Analysis and meaning of some of the Indian geographical names of Suffolk County, New
York. A paper read before the Suffolk County Teacher's Institute at Riverhead, May
3rd, 1883.
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Printed in the Riverhead Weekly News, May 15th 1883. By William S. Pelletreau, A.M.,
transcriber of the Southampton Town records, historical writer, etc., etc., (1874).
20p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 552
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Various Algonquian notes. 26p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 572
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Indian place names on Long Island, revised and corrected for the (Brooklyn Eagle)
Almanac of 1890. (manuscript). 16p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 620
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Claims of Gardiners Island for priority of English settlement over any other locality
on Long Island. (manuscript). 4p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 636
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
An early mention of the Kuskarawaokes. (manuscript). 2p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 640
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Indian place names in East Hampton Town, Long Island, with their probable significations.
(manuscript). 12p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 643
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Extracts from Indian deeds of 1649 1666 relating to lands on Long Island. Copied by
(or for) George R. Howell. 2p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 655
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Letter and map from Thomas W. Bicknell regarding Sowams, 1904. 2p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 658
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Letter dated June 10, 1896, to James A. Canfield, respecting the name Patchogue. 3p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 660
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
The Indian Fort on Montauk, Long Island, some historical and other facts relating
thereto
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Scope and Contents
Manuscript written for the express 8p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 663
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Cobb, a farming district at Southampton, Long Island. The origin and signification
of its name.
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Scope and Contents
Manuscript written for the express 5p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 672
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Dialect of the New Jersey Lenape. Obtained for Thomas Jefferson in 1792, at the Village
of Edgpiiliik, West New Jersey.
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Scope and Contents
Copy of the manuscript in the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 678
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Indian geographic names, and why we should study them. Illustrated by some Rhode Island
examples. (manuscript). 1897. 17 leaves.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 682
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Copies of Indian deeds of 1661, 1670, 1687. Place names: Martha's Vinyard, Westchester
County. Notes on Eliot's Bible. 31p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 699
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Vocabulary of the Montauk Tribe (1798)
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Copied February 12th, 1890, from the original contained in an old memorandum book
written by John Lyon (Lion) Gardiner, Esq., the 7th proprietor of Gardiners Island,
now in the possession of his grandson, J. Lyon Gardiner, the 12th proprietor. Sag
Harbor, New York. 2p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 729
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Letters from Harry Andrew Wright of Springfield, Massachusetts
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Scope and Contents
To William Wallace Tooker, in 1903, regarding Algonquian proper names in New England,
with some notes thereon by Tooker. 53p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 731
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| Box 1 | Volume A |
Extracts from Eliot's Indian Bible
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Scope and Contents
Many taken from the copy in the possession of John Lyon Gardiner, Esq., the 12th proprietor
of Gardiner's Island. 204p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 783
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| Box 1 | Volume B |
Natick English dictionary compiled from Eliot's Bible.
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Scope and Contents
Undated, handwritten manuscript, acquired February 1919. 205p.
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 893
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