-cancels, post marks, first-day covers — all considered specialized collections. "Lives of great men, thus remind us" so says the poet, Longfellow. During the term of Calvin Coolidge, the thirty-first president of the United States, a proclamation was issued that from February twenty-second until November

contact with whites or by exchanges through Indian intermediaries, but in either case drawing the Indians toward white settlements. So, odd though it may seem at first thought, these Miami raids may have been motivated by the desire to establish trade relations. Earlier in the century, the Susquehannocks