[286] There is a copy in Harvard College Library. (Rich, 1832, no. 121, £1 8s.) It was an official document of the Company.
[287] Another official publication. A copy in Harvard College Library. (Rich, 1832, no. 122, £2 2s.) It is reprinted in Force’s Tracts, iii.
[288] But one copy is now known, which is at present in the Huth collection (Catalogue, iv. 1247), having formerly belonged to Lord Charlemont’s Library at Dublin, where Halliwell found it in 1864, bound up with other tracts. The volume escaped the fire in London which destroyed the greater part of the Charlemont collection in 1865, and at the sale that year brought £63. In the same year Halliwell privately printed it (ten copies). Winsor’s Halliwelliana, p. 25; Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors, vol. ii. p. 1788. In 1874 it was again privately reprinted (twenty-five copies) in London. It once more appeared, in 1878, in Neill’s Virginia and Virginiola. Cf. Lefroy’s History of Bermuda.
[289] Tyler’s American Literature, i. 42. Malone wrote a book to prove that this description by Strachey suggested to Shakespeare the plot of the Tempest,—a view controverted in a tract on the Tempest by Joseph Hunter.
[290] Reprinted in Force’s Tracts, iii. no. 2. The dedication is given in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. 1866, p. 36.
[291] [There is a copy in the Lenox Library; it was reprinted (50 copies) in 1859, and again by Mr. Griswold (20 copies) in 1868. A letter of Lord Delaware, July 7, 1610, from the Harleian MSS., is printed in the Hakluyt Society’s edition of Strachey, p. xxiii.—Ed.]
[292] [There is a copy in Harvard College Library. A very fine copy in the Stevens Sale (1881, Catalogue, no. 1,612) was afterward held by Quaritch at £25. Fifty years ago Rich (Catalogue 1832, no. 131) priced a copy at £2 2s. (See Sabin, xiii. 53249.) It was reprinted in Force’s Tracts, vol. i. no. 7, and in 2 Mass. Hist. Coll. vol. viii.—Ed.]
[293] [A further account of this tract will be found in a subsequent editorial note on the “Maps of Virginia;” and of Smith’s Generall Historie a full account will be found in the Editorial Note at the end of Dr. De Costa’s chapter.—Ed.]
[294] [Tyler, American Literature, i. 46; Neill, Virginia Company, 78; Rich (1832), no. 135, priced at £2 2s. Mr. Neill has told the story of Whitaker and others in his Notes on the Virginian Colonial Clergy, Philadelphia, 1877.—Ed.]
[295] [The original edition is in the Lenox Library and the Deane Collection; and copies at public sales in America have brought $150 and $170. (Field, Indian Bibliography, nos. 642-43, where he cites it as one of the earliest accounts of the Indians of Virginia; Sabin, viii. 46.) A German translation was published at Hanau as part xiii. of the Hulsius Voyages in 1617 (containing more than was afterwards included in De Bry’s Latin), and there were two issues of it the same year with slight variations. The map is copied from Smith’s New England, not from his Virginia. Carter-Brown Catalogue, i. 491; Lenox Contributions (Hulsius), p. 15.