NOTES AND ADDENDA
The World is My University
NOTES
1 In fairness we must note that many of these, especially in later years, were rewritings of earlier work.
2 The Sam Hill Stories are in JUL MSS Collection 1 Boxes 37 and 38, there is also one story in Box 50. Many of them were typed and bound in a single volume by Corinne Simons. Many were also published in the Northern Kentucky Heritage Magazine, 1994, 1995
3 JUL MSS Coll.1, Bx 40, Folder 582. Here it is dated 1859, but elsewhere JUL states he was about 14 when he wrote it.
4 Varro and Virginia Tyler, "John Uri Lloyd, Phr.M., Ph.D." Journal of Natural Products: Lloydia 50 (1987): 4. The young man was Henry V. Arny, who wrote of JUL in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 25 (1936): 885.
5 L. Sprague de Camp, Science-Fiction Handbook: The Writing of Imaginative Fiction (New York: Hermitage House, 1953), p. 48
6 This is mentioned in a letter to a fan, a copy of which is in my possession.
7 Memorial Issue Eclectic Medical Journal, 96 / 5 (1936), p. 185-186.
8 Eunice B. Bardell, "The Novels of the American Pharmacist, John Uri Lloyd," Pharmacy in History 29 (1987): 177-180 deals particularly with the strychnine incident in Stringtown. This article is of some interest, but not of particular value.
9 "The Writing of Stringtown on the Pike," JUL MSS Coll. 1 Bx 2 Folder 29
10 Michael Flannery, John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998), p. 134-137. There are four letters in the Lloyd Collection. JUL MSS Coll. 1 Bx 6 Folder 67. The letter quoted here is dated 11 Sep 1901.
11 Flannery, p. 134.
12 "Some Curious Mineral and Geological Specimens From Kentucky," Report of an Informal Address delivered before the Cincinnati section of the American Chemical Society. Mechanics Institute 12 Feb 1902. JUL MSS Coll. 1 Bx 40 Fold.596. This 17 page article is the record of a lecture taken almost entirely from Filson.
13 JUL MSS Coll 1 Bx 40 Folders 575, 576, 577. There is a handwritten MS, two copies in typescript, and a picture of Filson torn from a book.
14 Varro E. Tyler, Lynn R. Brady, and James E. Robbers, Pharmacognosy ed. 7 Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1976), p. 2-3.
15 Varro and Virginia Tyler, p. 1.
16 Ibid., p. 2.
17 Memorial, 204-205.
18 Memorial, p. 207-208.
19 He mentions the Formation of Dew. Lloyd had a theory that dew was formed within a plant and exuded by it. See "Experiments in Connection with the Formation of Dew." JUL MSS Coll. 1 Bx 42. Folders 633, 634, 635. This seems to be one case in which Lloyd was mistaken.
20 Memorial, p. 202.
21 Ibid., 202-203.
22 Tyler, p. 3
23 Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History of Pharmacy: A Guide and a Survey (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1940), p. 424. This is the first edition. Dr. Worthen informs me the 4th edition (1976) is still the standard work on the subject.
24 Ibid., p. 316.
25 A. J. Kilmer, Red Cross Notes ser. 6, no. 2. The review is reproduced in C. M. Simons, John Uri Lloyd (Cincinnati, 1972), p. 189-190.
26 Kremers and Urdang, p. 333.
27 Scroggins (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900), p. 36-37.
28 JUL MSS Coll. 1 Bx 45 Folders 691, 692.
ADDENDA
I wish to mention the material collected by John Uri Lloyd about the escape of John Hunt Morgan through Boone County. In my article for the Historical Society Newsletter I wrote:
In my opinion, Warwick of the Knobs, though perhaps not the most interesting of his stories overall, is the best written from a literary point of view. It also contains interesting historical materials which are worked into the narrative; the most significant are: the Lick at Big Bone, the Old-School Baptist church on Gunpowder Creek and the controversial trek of John Hunt Morgan through Boone County after his escape from a Federal Civil War prison. It would be of great interest to discover any documentation assembled or collected by Lloyd on the subject of Morgan's route through Boone County. This might tell us for sure whether Lloyd was contributing to a local legend, or preserving in fiction an account of what might well be described as Boone County's greatest contribution to the Southern cause.
I have these documents, but have not had time to assimilate all of the material, but I have reason to think that the truth is to be found among these papers. Though the characters in Warwick are fictional the Morgan incident, I believe, is not. It is founded on better documentation than many Civil War incidents accepted as genuine history. Here is what I found:
Letter of Perry Corbin, to his sister Sallie, with photograph
Letter of L. H. Voshell of Union, to JUL, dated 9 Sep 1901
Interview with R. G. Adams, by JUL, undated
Letter of R. G. Adams, of Union, to JUL, dated 6 Aug 1901
Interview with Mrs. B. F. McGlasson, conducted by JUL, undated
Other notes and papers
Had Lloyd been as great an historian as he was a pharmacist it is possible he would have been able to question his informants in such a way as to leave no doubts about the facts. I venture to think he would have at least done something so basic as to date the material. I am going to make these documents available to anyone who is interested. After everyone who wants has a chance to study them, and check them by other sources of information, perhaps the Morgan Raid and escape through Boone County can become the subject of another meeting.
Note to Addenda
This incident is partially confirmed by Lester V. Horwitz, The Longest Raid of the Civil War (Cincinnati: Farmcourt Publishing, 1999), p.361. "...Their next stop, which was at the home of Henry Corwin near Union, Kentucky. Here, on Saturday, November 28 [1863], they spent the night." He cites as his authority William E. Metzler, Morgan and His Dixie Cavaliers (1976), p. 77. I have not yet been able to check this book, but the fact that the name is given incorrectly as Corwin, rather than Corbin, shows this information came from some source other than Lloyd, and so helps confirm it. Dr. Worthen showed me the guest register where Horwitz had used the Lloyd Library, but, according to him, had not consulted this material, as it was not available at that time.
Additional note. Since this paper was written the Morgan escape through Boone County has been covered by Bruce Ferguson, vice-president of the Historical Society. It is to be hoped his material will soon be published.
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