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PREFACE 



AS THE numerous illusions, with which one begins the 

 . joust with life, slowly vanish with the march of 

 time, it is heartening to record that the fine courtesies of 

 ^ the field of scholarship still abound and flourish. I allude 

 ^ in particular to generous aid in identifying numerous 

 persons referred to by Robinson in the years 1846 to 

 1851, given by Carl R. Woodward, of Rutgers Univer- 

 sity; Julian P. Boyd, of the Historical Society of Penn- 

 -sylvania; V. Alton Moody, of Iowa State College; Peter 

 _ Nelson, of the Division of Archives and History of the 

 "^ University of the State of New York; Charles Sackett 

 Snydor, of the University of Mississippi; Wendell H. 

 I Stephenson, John Andreassen, and E. Merton Coulter, of 

 ^^^Louisiana State University ; W. H. Tayloe, of Uniontown, 

 Alabama ; Marie B. Owen and Peter A. Brannon, of the 

 Department of Archives and History, State of Alabama ; 

 Kathryn T. Abbey, of the Florida State College for 

 Women ; Dr. John F. Townsend and Theodore D. Jervey, 

 of Charleston, South Carolina; D. D. Wallace, of Wofford 

 College; A, R. Newsome, of the University of North 

 Carolina; D. L. Corbitt, of the North Carolina Historical 

 Commission; Wilmer L. Hall and Morgan Robinson, of 

 the Virginia State Library; Frances M. Staton, of the 

 Public Library of Toronto ; Fred Landon, of the Univer- 

 sity of Western Ontario ; J. J. Talman, of the Provincial 

 Archives, Toronto ; Pierre Georges Roy, of the Provincial 

 Archives, Quebec; the staff of the Newberry Library of 

 Chicago; and especially Walter Prichard, of Louisiana 

 State University, who furnished information relative to 

 some twenty-seven planters of his state. 



My sincere thanks for assistance in the preparation 

 of the present volume are renewed to all the individuals 

 and institutions to whom acknowledgment was made in 

 Solon Robinson, Pioneer and Agriculturist , Volume L 



Herbert A. Kellar 

 Chicago, Illinois 

 July, 1936 



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