One source of the Bishop's material: When the processing of the Anti-Saloon League papers and publications was completed at the Ohio Historical Society years ago, duplicate copies were disposed of in a sale. Bishop bought the stuff. The original papers from the microfilm edition still exist in the Society, however. I was priviliged to look at the original material for my book, not the microfilm, as a special courtesy by the Society's staff at the time. They recognized that my project was simply too large for me to be able to read all of the material I needed to read on microfilm. So the Anti-Saloon League Collection is mostly intact. I believe, however, that the Society disposed of state issues of the League newspaper, *The American Issue,* offering volumes that were not Ohio volumes to institutions in the appropriate state. I urged them to keep the collection intact, because a researcher could not reasonably travel state to state to work with those materials, but because the Society's mission is Ohio history they disposed of those materials. Or so I was told. However, pamphlets and books were not disposed of unless they were duplicate copies. For that reason the OHS remains a wonderful place for research on the history of temperance and prohibition. K. Austin Kerr e-mail [log in to unmask] Professor of History office (614)292-2613 Ohio State University department 292-2674 Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA fax (614)292-2282