(These letters mark the beginning of the controversy respecting the relation of Dr. Marcus Whitman in saving Oregon.)
(The foregoing letters were copied and carefully compared with the originals under the direction of William I. Marshall, principal of the Gladstane public school, Chicago, and presented to the Society by him.)
Diary of W. C. Hembree, from October 16, 1855, beginning with the organization of Company E, First Regiment Oregon Mounted Volunteers, at Lafayette, Oregon, and closing with April , 1856, when the company was discharged at Portland. (Gives numerous details of the winter campaign in Eastern Oregon in connection with the "Yakima Indian War.") Copied from the original by George H. Himes.
Address of the carrier of the Oregonian to its patrons, January 1, 1852.
Washington's Inauguration, program of Centennial Celebration of, Portland, Oregon, April 30, 1889.
Gibbs, Addison C., Correspondence of, as war Governor of Oregon, 1862-1866, embracing the following:
460 letters, largely relating to military affairs in Oregon, contained in two letter books.
Monthly reports of A. C. R. Shaw, warden of the Oregon Penitentiary at Portland from December, 1862, to June 30, 1864.
60 applications for pardon.
260 letters relating to State land matters.
19 vouchers relating to military matters.
364 vouchers relating to purchases for the penitentiary.
22 letters and documents relating to the Union League in Oregon.
20 miscellaneous letters.
NEWSPAPERS.
Oregonian, Vol. I, March 22, April 12, May 17, June 7, July 5, 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16, September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 25, 1851—seventeen copies. (This is an exceedingly important accession, as there is no part of the first volume of the Oregonian to be found any where outside of the rooms of the Historical Society. In addition to the foregoing the Society has the following copies: Of Vol I—No. 1, December 4, 1850; No. 20, April 19; No. 21, April 26; No. 22, May 3; No. 25, May 24; No. 29, June 21; No. 48, November l—thus making a total of twenty-four copies of the first paper published in Portland. The Oregonian has no part of its first volume whatever, the file of that year having been loaned many years ago and never returned.)
Oregonian, Vol. 2—No. 1, December 6; No. 3, December 20 (two copies); No. 4, December 27, 1851; No. 5, January 3; No. 7, January 17; No. 8, January 24; No. 9, January 31; No. 10, February 7; No. 11,
