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prominent Americans including Chancellor Robert R. Livingston.
The Chancellor, needing a competent medical man in his area,
induced Dr. Wilson to establish himself at Clermont. There Dr.
Wilson enjoyed a long and successful career in every phase of
professional, lay, and political activity. As confidant and advisor
to the Chancellor, he was given charge of the great Livingston
holdings while the owner served as Minister to France. Later he
acted as executor of the Chancellor's estate. He was president of
the county medical organization and of the state medical society,
second judge of Columbia County, first postmaster of Clermont,
and prominent in local and state agricultural circles.

The Wilson Papers include a considerable body of material
relating to the management of various interests of other members
of the Livingston family. Correspondence with local farmers,
tradesmen, tenants, artisans, members of well-known New York
families, about Livingston and Wilson political, financial, and agri¬
cultural affairs, and surveys, leases, other legal agreements, and
accounts comprise the bulk of the Papers. Present also are letters
and papers of several of the Doctor's children, including Robert
L. Wilson, a New York attorney; Stephen B. Wilson, who en¬
joyed a long career in the Navy; and William H. Wilson of the
U. S. Army Medical Department.

Among the papers of Dr. Wilson there is a substantial run of
account books covering, in varying degrees, the years from the
early 17 8o's until well into the second decade of the 19th century.
There are gaps in the run; apparently some volumes were missing
and apparently no records were kept for some years or the records
were destroyed. However, from other materials in the collection
a fairly complete accounting of Dr. Wilson's income is possible.
Still we wished most heartily that the series of accounts was
complete.

Just before I left for a vacation in Northern Michigan, about
the middle of August, a catalogue of the Tuttle Company of
Rutland, Vermont, arrived. Usually, I read such catalogues with
a great deal of avidity, but on this occasion there was too much