Chapter V. PRIMER FROM A GREEN WORLD

  The Miami Journal, March 1888, featured reminiscences of McGuffey by four Miami alumni--Charles Anderson, J. W. Caldwell, B. W. Chidlaw and John I. Covington; Chidlaw's sketch includes his being paid five dollars for copying one of McGuffey's rough manuscripts. A thorough account of early Oxford journalism is given in Jesse H. Shera's "An Eddy in the Westward Flow of Culture: The History of Printing and Publishing in Oxford, Ohio, 1 827-1841," in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XLIV (1935), 105-37. In William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers (New York, 1936), Harvey C. Minnich traced the life of McGuffey and the influence of his textbooks. The second volume of Mark Sullivan, Our Times (New York, 1927), begins with a chapter on McGuffey. James H. Rodabaugh's "McGuffey: A Revised Portrait," appeared in the Oxford Criterion, Winter 1933. A letter by John M. Gordon of the Class of 1837, published in the Miami University Bulletin, November 1929, tells of an early student tilt with the faculty. An extensive collection of McGuffey letters is preserved in the Miami University McGuffey Museum, along with some seven hundred copies of the Readers in their various editions.