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volumes of German MSS., diaries and journals of Wiederhold, 
Malzburg, the Lossberg Regiment, von Malsingen, Papet, Wieder- 
hold, the Third Waldeck Regiment, Lotheisen, Reuber, Piel, 
Dohla, Ruffer, Dinklage, the Hessian Viger Regiment and many 
volumes of reports on the battles of Long Island, Bennington, the 
Brandywine, and State papers relating to Prussia and America, 
Prussia and France, Prussia and Holland, Prussia and England and 
Washington and Frederick the Great, in all forty MS. volumes 
bearing on the American Revolution. 
Sparks in his collection, now deposited in the Library of Harvard 
University, had a collection of papers of Steuben, the MS. of 
DeKalb’s mission to America in 1768 (since printed in part in 
French), and the correspondence of Frederick the Great with his 
Ministers in London and Paris during the American War of Inde- 
pendence, procured in Berlin in 1844 by Wheaton, then American 
Minister there. In the Magazine of American History for 1877 
there is a translation by A. A. Bierstadt of Bauermeister’s Varra- 
tive of the Capture of New York, addressed to Captain von Wangen- 
heim. This was part of the Bancroft collection. In the same 
volume is De Lancey’s account of the capture of Fort Washington, 
with a map, from the original in Cassel, obtained by Prof. Joy for 
Mr. J. Carson Brevoort. The New York Historical Society has 
printed the journal of Krafft, a volunteer and corporal in Donop’s 
regiment and a lieutenant in that of von Bose, who married in New 
York, became a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington 
and died there in 1804. That Society has also printed the Journal 
of General Rainsford, the British commissary in charge of the 
German forces sent to this country by Great Britain. General 
Stryker obtained from the Archives at Marburg and Cassel many 
important papers freely and well used in his capital history of the 
Battle of Trenton. They include the court of inquiry of the Loss - 
berg, Knyphausen and Rall regiments, lists of their officers and 
of those of the artillery and Yagers ; maps by Wiederhold, Fischer 
and Piel; the letters of Donop and Rall, of the Elector of Hesse 
to Knyphausen ; diaries of Piel, Minnigerode, Wiederhold and 
Ewald ; reports of Donop’s spies; and altogether some twenty 
MSS., all dealing with the battle of Trenton. 
Mr. Charles Gross gave, in the Wew. York Evening Post, an ac- 
count of his visit to the Marburg Archives, where he found the 
journal of the Hessian corps in America under General v. Heister ; 
