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reports of Heister and of his successor in command, v, Knyphau- 
sen, and many hundreds of unbound papers. In the Kriegs 
Archiv (the War Office) in Berlin there are many official reports 
and many papers not arranged or catalogued. 
Frederick Kapp described the Marburg Archives as including 
ten folio volumes of paper relating to the part taken by the Hessian 
corps in the American Revolution, the negotiations of the Land- 
grave and his Minister, v. Schlieffen, with the English Government, 
the correspondence of the commanding officers, with reports of opera- 
tions, maps, sketches, etc. ‘There are three volumes of the pro- 
ceedings of the court-martial on the battle of Trenton, a number 
of Hessian war records indexed by Colonel Sturmfeder and hun- 
dreds of letters written by officers to their families, who were 
directed by the Landgrave to send them to him for perusal—invol- 
untary but very good and complete witnesses of what they saw in 
America. Mr. J. Edward Lowell, author of that capital book, 
The Hessians in the American Revoluticn, in a paper printed in the 
second volume, second:series of Massachusetts Historical Soctety’s 
Proceedings, speaks of thirty-seven regimental journals and twelve 
volumes of papers at Marburg, and twenty-five in Cassel, in addi- 
tion to a large collection in Berlin, a fragment of a journal of the 
Waldeck regiment at Arolsen, and that of an officer of the Anspach 
regiment in the Anspach Library. In his Hesscans tn America, 
Mr. Lowell refers to a dozen diaries and journals in the collection 
at Cassel. A copy of one of these, that of Wiederhold, which I 
own, covers the period from October 7, 1776, to December 7, 1780, 
with seventeen colored maps, plans, etc. At the end there isa note 
that Wiederhold died in Cassel in 1805, when the original 
descended to his son, who died at Marburg in 1863. From him it 
passed to his son, who went to America in 1880, but since then 
has not been heard from, so that the orignal has been lost or is, at 
least, no longer accessible. Bancroft and Washington Irving used 
copies (without the maps, etc.) made for them and speak of it as 
very valuable. Bound up with my copy are extracts from letters of 
Henel and Henkelman and Ries, giving an account of the capture 
of Fort Washington and the order changing the name to Fort 
Knyphausen ; a list of the Hessian regiments and their comman- 
ders, and a memorandum that each battalion was ordered to keep 
an exact journal in duplicate, of which one copy was to be filed in 
the State Archives; lists of the troops sent to America and their 
