1893.] 1 ^ [Coues. 



is mainly a Journal, and mainly in Clark's hand, but ■willisome entries by 

 Lewis, and some by another hand. It includes the whole o. the winter- 

 ing of the Expedition at Fort Mandun, and various other matters. For 

 contents see beyond, Codex C, which this volume now forms. 



3. Four (4) bound volumes, which may be called the "marble " books, 

 from the style of their covers. Form oblong, like that of all the fore- 

 going ; size of covers 6| x 4 inches, leaves G| x 3| ; paper rough, whitish, 

 unruled ; covers pasteboard, overlaid with marbled paper, back and cor- 

 ners of thin, smooth, brown leather. All in good order but one, which is 

 worn and shabby ; all written full, and perfectly legiljle throughout. 

 The gathering of these four books is supposed to be 93 leaves or 184 pages ; 

 in one I find but 164 pages, though without any break in the text that I 

 can discover. Two of these books are Clark's Journals, from the starting 

 of the Expedition to October 3, 1804; the other two are Notebooks, 

 chiefly natural history notes, bj^ both Lewis and Clark. The four now 

 form my Codices A, B and Q, R (see beyond). 



4. Several parcels of loose sheets of manuscript, some in Lewis' hand, 

 some in Clark's. Most of these papers are of the same size, shape and 

 quality as the leaves of the red books, having been, in fact, taken from 

 some of the latter, as may be seen by fitting the torn ends to the stubs 

 remaining in the volumes. Those parcels which thus obviously belong 

 to certain of the red books, or with the red books as a set, I have arranged 

 as Codices Fa, Fb, Fc, Fd, Fe, La, Lb. One of the parcels is a different 

 fragment, imperfect, once part of a Notebook, not found, like the small 

 marble books ; this is now Codex In. Two of the parcels belong with the 

 small marble books, and thus become Codices Aa, Ba. Two remaining 

 parcels, not directly connected with any of the bound volumes, are now 

 Codices S, T. These manuscripts were all loose ; as arranged they make 

 twelve (12) parcels and as many codices, for the particular description of 

 which see beyond. 



The above are all the books and papers in my hands which are actual 

 manuscripts of Lewis or of Clark. They are accompanied by Mr. Biddle's 

 letter of deposit, and several memoranda concerning them, in Biddle's or 

 another hand. 



IL 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. 

 The "Meteorological Register" he specifies is simply certain leaves de- 

 tached from the red books, and thus already accounted for. All the loose 

 manuscript above specified is supposed to be included in the Biddle de- 

 posit. But I find four books from other sources remaining to be accounted 

 for. As to their deposits, therefore, the Lewis and Clark manuscripts 

 fall into the following arrangement : 



1. The Biddle deposit, fourteen bound volumes, viz. : Two of the four 



