This request is addressed especially to those who heard the presentations on the rise and development of the advent movement, as given at the St. Louis and Philadelphia Councils on Evangelism. It is an appeal for cooperative search by our workers for certain documents that are essential in connection with the forthcoming Source Book now in course of preparation. Certain of the specific items are:
1. The Day Dawn, a periodical published from 1845-47, by 0. R. L. Crozier, at Canandaigua, N. Y.
2. The Girdle of Truth, a periodical published by B. Matthias and Eli Curtis at New York, presumably from 1848-50.
3. The Hope of Israel, a periodical published in 1844 and 1845 by Joseph Turner at Portland, Maine.
4. The Advent Mirror, a periodical, restricted to one or two numbers, published by Apollos Hale and Joseph Turner, Boston, in January or February, 1845.
5. A copy of the vision, "To the Remnant Scattered Abroad," printed on a single foolscap-sized sheet in April, 1846, just before inclusion in "A Word to the Little Flock" published in May, 1846.
6. A reprint of this original vision—"To the Remnant Scattered Abroad"— in tract form, in 1883, in answer to the A. C. Long charges of suppression.
7. A manuscript written by Hiram Edson, containing thirty pages of historical and biographical material.
Pertinent extracts from these documents are available, but it is most desirable that we have access to these materials in their entirety, or in the case of periodicals, at least to the leading numbers if not the full files. Although our General Conference collection of sources is amazingly complete, there may still be letters, diaries, manuscripts, or early printed documents unknown to us that would be of great value. If you have, or know of any one else who has such materials, will you not make search immediately and report results to the Custodian of the Advent Source Materials, General Conference, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.; or if you know of descendants or friends of the Adventist pioneers (such as Frederick Wheeler, Rachel Oaks Preston, T. M. Preble, 0. R. L. Crozier, Hiram Edson, as well as such well-known leaders as White, Bates, etc.), who might have valuable materials, will you not communicate with us at once?
L. E. F.
