FOREW^ORD 



The author wishes to make grateful acknowledgment of the 

 courtesy of the many individuals and institutions whose helpful- 

 ness and courtesy have made this study possible. Especially is 

 he under obligations to Professor Clive Day of Yale University, 

 the Connecticut Academy, the Yale Library, the John Carter 

 Brown Library, the Essex Institute, the Salem and New York 

 Customs Houses, the Lenox Library and the great collection of 

 which it now forms a part, the New York Public Library, the 

 New Haven Colony Historical Society, the Rhode Island His- 

 torical Society, the New York Historical Society, the Boston 

 Athenaeum and the Boston Public Library, the Harvard Library, 

 the Library of Congress and the State Department, the American 

 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the Ameri- 

 can Baptist Missionary Union, now the Baptist Missionary 

 Society. Above all the author wishes to record his indebtedness 

 to Professor Frederick \\'ells Williams of Yale University, 

 under whose direction the study was originally made, in whose 

 ample library much of the work was done, and to whose constant 

 interest and kindly criticism are due much of whatever value 

 these pages may have. 



