Show TREMENDOUS m I a TASK fASK OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR i OUli Oll LONDON LOIO p Special HJ ONION March 30 In London LONDON L home will wi be ho completed III In tho time next Ixl month or HO so 10 one ohio of ut the biggest tasks tanks of at Il it literary kind ever evor per Ilet 1118 hoops nips 1 by boy h numy ni ono uno man This II ha s the tIme work to la which thou tho l late Into lien United States oIls ills Ila agent In hi II London for tOI over ovel 10 to year devoted a IL largo large part of ot bitt hil life Itu lifetime tl time liu making of n It complete Index of ot toil nil lime tho that hint exIst on 01 tile tVIs t lM sIde Ido of at time the ocean 1 I iou tho Amer Amel lean can Revolution and tori the lie tanking making of ot pence peace thereafter It I Is IK to 10 cm give he it II i true truo Idea of or how imo an momo 11 un 11 this wn wits hut but It occupied Mr II Stevens and 1111 the tho 20 or am mom ammo whom ho hi h PaId out of his hIM hl own 01 pocket I over oer 30 31 years O I to gather gothel thou the necessary At t I the I lie cull of oC that t time I t I mI mome they tho md catalogued roll nil ni the time documents ro ni rotating tating to the hoc revolution resolution In tom tho hue 01 doom slon 1101 of tot tho lie government and In Ito loot Vat e col bet In I a this hole country coot mit ry and andall 1111 moo it i nil all ni those In lii 1 the ihu government archives of lt France mice Slit I ii and d Holland Itol I to mm ii the lie three t hi re powers In iti the war vur warThe 11 The hu document thus loots catalogued amount to over oer In all otil and auth 1111 the Iho Immense e 1111 I In II I ii which the lie dma and to moth lace locution halo tion of nt every esery ono one of nr them heni Is 18 Indicated fills Ils ISO folio lume each containing about COO OO PARCH Mr Mm 1 kept l no moo 11 actual record of ot the tho ho amount of or money 1110 which ho lie upon this lila work but hit es cc estimated M that hoot It was WR In ito II the lie of He e died two tWI yenta years ago ugo leaving time the work unfinished All 1 ti the material was ovas III In hand however hower and amid for foi ro tho time most 1081 pint bait Ot I tea dy Incorporated I In iii handsomely bound volumes Mr 1 l ms St Stem ens UIS U 01 and her lute loot lal e mist lm II I rot mediately lately sot set It about t completing il et lug tho lie In Index II I mu dex L x total and the tl lii last hoist 10 volumes of If It aro aronow ar an now being bound exportation wits I nt tot the tho be hr beginning ginning g that bitt the time States Slate SI t govern government ment recognizing the of ot oft the t hoe work lolk lie hI hud planned would furnish too tIme the funds fur toi carrying it alit and hi tile final loop that hut Congress would IJU buy his Index for Cor tho the but bout n a bill hili to III to that hoot I wan moss re ro reported ported on Oti by two to of or tue Ihl house lo of ot lImo matter never got nt nn nay Stevens who wa waa wall oae a ml to OIl In I He I I e already mil u to good deal of et Qt V with wit ho historical documents rill for KH Its assistant to 10 hi hili father mo I hem who was president of or the Vermont Historical I md tool iO I oil Im UN rio ii sm lety let he bc h mud I copied until old 1111 1 otio I papers both holh at ott Albany and hasten Boston Mr Steven hind had been In iou London rr or f our ir years t tirs whon heio U to too IMI I y that he should make Kom t of nr In tIme Public of ot l nI iv mo 1 loot to Now ow Jenny Tersey and then It Il lout ho lie Uncovered that to 0 loose 11 e tie nil ID to th tIm other ot 00 ti lug lea In ito different timid and foreign i il l o tIbia WOOS was nl absolutely no nil in iii dux dox It won became evident to Mr M I o Steven that ho lie would be lie culled to 10 make constant reference to of tot lois Kind kinol for tor several to come olne to 50 he tie begun making butts M of nt each one orme of or them thit I hi lois hili bond with v I th Ihl be t ii Iu uit t timid that in I Sg hu hI gathered no 1111 of ot ma one material tonal In lit HM ISRI fec cy of ot State wrote to 10 ti l owell 10 l II then to tIme the court ourt of Ht Mt lame I a list IH I Hi lb II of ur if the then In III the th State for tor celebrating lie th anniversary of ur the time nit lomo of 0 Of American L Independence it Il t wit omus desired to gain permission from II he hit government to 10 HH otto im mis an mob Index to In time the historical hl documents III In the ii of ot hrat Ue t Title Thin pot per wu Will OttS ranted and Mr Mi II duet chief of ot the bureau of ot rolls hulls nil and library van 1111 cent over 01 to 10 0 make the Index but holl ho toe got here hep tIme the of the luk boot ti h lie had hili I ilm idiom Ho I Is could not nol possibly give tb Ohm line lino t to It I t Hint bout I would have been IJ n nwe lilt nry r 50 n o he Iii lot om to 10 be lot I I iii to t I without 11 hUI t having Thou holl It II wan mons n that but f r 55 St ens enK n with thou state do II the th work IK 11 ho al oil V endy had done doni on toward Index Ing tho t hp I A and offering In t n te hU hh hii tusk task im toom of or the r IF Much in to V V Mr OIl who hail hilt th 0 I tot of Louell Ie well oell id K IV V ti Idle Ibis and many man other I limM 1 so BO much V l IV that lint ho lie went on out steadily with lIh hi lila hili mK tool In InIn In Iii n J lie hoe 11 wits was given avery h I y the lot and a In lot SIn and Holland the tho ux of tf the Plate II II ill dim butt The rh matter r dime be beIn Conro In IHl LIST 1181 but M u It ha har r V V I been belli sail old In never got fot beyond tho the com corn V stage Tin ISO lo volumes volume which contain V Mr V Stevens Index are entirely by h bund In n to copperplate that lint IH lot a n de do d light to too tho IIII lit eye eje And 11 1 to show with what lint Infinite I 1111 II lute lie e rr thin lots t monumental In III I ii lex was Willi prepared It II may be bl mild that the III Ito volumes consist of ot three sets Hots 60 50 of V wh h gIve gUe a II list 1111 of lit thou the his hili Americana In Iii the Ihl order III In which the tho documents appear In Ito their volumes In tIme the different foreign archives of ot 10 the In iii chronological order ordem with n a 1 description of lit each amid Do ao of oC which contain a II list of ot the tho odd Items lIem in alphabetical 01 I leni order with In nearly every emery IUM the names of ot both time the writers total and receivers in too double mitty V Among nong tho thie Ih almost endless documents to 10 which this monster index ret are till all lit letters and dispatches or of lie loyal governors of ot the Thirteen the lie outbreak of ot tho time and iou all those of ut the time In too time the of at the Will war warU Jell leoo OIl loge I Sir HII Ir I lenry Or U 1011 corn toad and 11 II 1 III also so nw are II nil tho the III JlII or of time Iho n 10 Iota I toe lit IIII t ii mm Ion from 1763 t to ii 1783 amid 0 mudo to tl to time king kill by b h In him England and amid Ko land testifying to their of ot the lImo American rebellion anti and to 10 their loch own loyalty The rIme list refes a also so to lie tho I o complete with regard to o the lie Hessian till the treaties hew I Hoops t Ihl t im K regimental regi t to I occur r V jen M mil I oil nIl so 80 on The Tho lm bar om e K ot In leli Is I nude toil nil iP Limo l orre enco tIme f veru and V iII and de do MI J nil Re III well is 1111 wilh the tho reaco commission ma lea lomme r to K I II I I n a jy Joy In arid arul LP Le I With Paul V Jonos JOUNI Arnold ant d John HaWck 11 nm i V |