James, Edmund Janes, and Loveless, Milo J. A Bibliography of Newspapers published in Illinois prior to 1860. Springfield, Ill., Phillips Bros., State Printers, 1899. 94 pp.
A very valuable work. An appendix gives a list of the Illinois and Missouri [pg 245] papers (1808-1897) in the St. Louis Mercantile Library, while a second appendix enumerates the county histories of Illinois and tells where they may be found.
Johnson, Eric and Peterson, C. F. Svenskarne i Illinois. Chicago: W. Williamson, 1880. 471 pp.
Chiefly valuable for a later period. The salient points of early Illinois history are canvassed.
Kingdom, William, Jr. America and the British Colonies, an abstract of all the most useful Information relative to the United States of America, and the British Colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Island. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1820. 16mo. 359 pp.
Pages 61-73 describe Illinois and give some judicious advice to emigrants. Conservative, but not cynical. Entire pages are reprinted from other authors, notably Fearon, without the use of quotation marks.
Kingston, Hon. John T. Early Western Days. (In Wis. Hist. Coll., VII., 297-344). Madison, Wis.: E. B. Bolens, 1876.
Gives a short account of the slavery struggle in Illinois in 1822-24.
—— Slavery in Illinois. Necedah, Wis.: Necedah Republican. 6 pp. Reprinted, without date, in pamphlet form. In Library of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
A very short sketch of slavery in Illinois from its introduction in 1719-20.