8 Preface 



son papers, which are likewise preserved here, are 

 bound in several series, each containing a number 

 of volumes. The Madison and Monroe papers, also 

 kept here, are not yet bound; I quote them as the 

 Madison MSS. and the Monroe MSS. 



My thanks are due to Mr. W. C. Hamilton, Asst. 

 Librarian, for giving me every facility to examine 

 the material. 



At Nashville, Tennessee, I had access to a mass 

 of original matter in the shape of files of old news- 

 papers, of unpublished letters, diaries, reports, and 

 other manuscripts. I was given every opportunity 

 to examine these at my leisure, and indeed to take 

 such as were most valuable to my own home. For 

 this my thanks are especially due to Judge John M. 

 Lea, to whom, as well as to my many other friends in 

 Nashville, I shall always feel under a debt on account 

 of the unfailing courtesy with which I was treated. 

 I must express my particular acknowledgments to 

 Mr. Lemuel R. Campbell. The Nashville manu- 

 scripts, etc., of which I have made most use are the 

 following : 



The Robertson MSS., comprising two large vol- 

 umes, entitled the "Correspondence, etc., of Gen'l 

 James Robertson," from 1784 to 1814. They be- 

 long to the library of Nashville University; I had 

 some difficulty in finding the second volume, but 

 finally succeeded. 



The Campbell MSS., consisting of letters and 

 memoranda to and from different members of the 

 Campbell family who were prominent in the Revo- 



