Small groups of papers relative to lotteries have been found in many of the collections of business records which have come to the Society and to Baker Library. The items include account sheets, letters, lottery tickets, and broadsides advertising lotteries. When brought together they offer some interesting information on the subject.

In the last number of the Bulletin some space was devoted to the banking problems of 1834. Now, turning to the panic of 1837, we find the course of action in the earlier period had at least some effect on the later crisis. To be sure, the panic of 1837 was world-wide in scope, but America contributed her share to the general disturbance.

A contemporary account of the Boston Riot of August, 1765, was found in the letter book of Henry Lloyd, a Boston merchant of the time. Though opposed to any trade restrictions that would hamper his business activities Lloyd had no sympathy for rioters. It is surprising, however, that in a letter book filled with correspondence of the period, there should be only one letter which refers at any length to the riot. This description, though brief, makes those prerevolutionary activities seem, once more, strangely alive:

In these exciting days when nationalism is shaking the world to its depths, it is interesting to see how an Englishman voiced himself in 1807. The following remarkable letter is among the manuscript possessions of Baker Library. One of the best parts of it is the brief history of nearly thirty years of Russian exchange.