Part 10 (2/2)

Pages xxvi.-xxvii. contain a letter from Arent De Peyster to Capt. McKee describing an Illinois expedition against St. Josephs in 1780 or 1781.

Letter dated Detroit, Feb. 1, 1781.

_Draper Collection of Ma.n.u.scripts._

This collection, made by Lyman C. Draper, is the property of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It has been of more value to the writer than any other single source, being especially helpful for the hitherto obscure period immediately succeeding the expedition of George Rogers Clark, 1779-1790. Most important of all are the Harmar Papers, although the Illinois MSS., the Clark MSS., and Draper's Notes were much used. The Hinde MSS. have little historical value, consisting as they do, largely of religious musings of the writer's old age.

DUDEN, GOTTFRIED. _Bericht uber eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika's and einen mehrjahrigen Aufenthalt am Missouri (in den Jahren 1824-1827) in Bezug auf Auswanderung und Uebervolkerung. 1st ed. of 1500 copies. 2d ed. Bonn, In Commission bei Eduard Weber_, 1834. lviii. + 404 pp.

Contains a prediction of Illinois future greatness. Gives valuable information concerning the cost and manner of transportation, and concerning social life. Comparison of American and European conditions.

DUNN, JACOB PIATT, _Compiler. Slavery Pet.i.tions and Papers. In Indiana Hist. Soc. Pub., II., 443-529. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company_, 1894.

”The following papers are the pet.i.tions to Congress from Northwest and Indiana Territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of the Ordinance of 1787, and the admission of slavery to the Territory, together with the counter-pet.i.tions, the reports on them, and the accompanying doc.u.ments,”-Compiler's introduction.

_Edwardsville Spectator. Edwardsville, Ill.: Hooper Warren, pub., Apr. 18, 1820-Feb. 8, 1825, and 1820-22._

Material has been gleaned from the issues of Nov. 7, 1820; August 31, 1822; Nov. 30, 1822; Nov. 29, 1823; Jan. 27, 1824; and Oct 5, 1824. In Library of Chicago Historical Society.

ERNST, FERDINAND. _Travels in Illinois in 1819. Translation from the German Original._ In _Pub. No. 8 of the Ill. Hist. Lib._ pp. 150-65.

_Springfield, Ill.: Phillips Bros._, 1904.

Ernst was the leader of a party of German immigrants who settled at Vandalia soon after his journey to Illinois. He gives a vivid picture of the rapidly settling Illinois with its squatters and its fertile and inviting land. He visited the Sangamo country and the Kickapoo United States treaty conference.

FAUX, W. _Memorable Days in America: being a Journal of a Tour to the United States, princ.i.p.ally undertaken to ascertain, by positive Evidence, the Condition and probable Prospects of British Emigrants; including Accounts of Mr. Birkbeck's Settlement in the Illinois ... London: W.

Simpkin & R. Marshall_, 1823. 488 pp.

Sufficiently pessimistic to require cautious use. The journey was performed in 1819-20.

FAY, H. A. _Collection of the official Accounts, in Detail, of all the Battles fought by Sea and Land, between the Navy and Army of the United States, and the Navy and Army of Great Britain, during the Years_ 1812, 13, 14, & 15. _New York: E. Conrad_, 1817. 295 pp.

Contains Capt. Heald's official report of the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812, and Col. Russell's official report of Gov. Edwards'

attack on the Indians near Peoria in 1812.

FEARON, HENRY BRADSHAW. _Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of five thousand Miles through the eastern and western States of America ...

With Remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's __”__Notes__”__ and __”__Letters.__”__ 3d ed. London: Strahan and Spottiswoode_, 1819. xv. + 454 pp.

The work gives a glimpse of Illinois through a foreigner's eye. Fearon paints in sober colors, but his values are fairly true. Of considerable value as a work on society in the U. S. in 1817-18.

FLINT, JAMES. _Letters from America, containing Observations on the Climate and Agriculture of the western States, the Manners of the People, and the Prospects of Emigrants, &c., &c. Edinburgh: W. & C. Tait, 1822._ 16mo. 330 pp.

The author probably did not reach Illinois, but his letters from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky give interesting bits of information in regard to the manner and cost of travel-1818 to 1820.

FLOWER, GEORGE. _History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower.

Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1882._ 16mo. 401 pp.

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