[597] Child’s book was reprinted in part in 2 Mass. Hist. Coll., iv. 107. It was reprinted in 1869 by William Parsons Lunt, with notes by W. T. R. Marvin. A copy of the original edition is in the library of the Boston Athenæum, and in that of John Carter Brown (Catalogue, ii. 608), which also has a copy of Winslow’s New England’s Salamander (Catalogue, ii. 623), and there is another in Harvard College Library. This is also reprinted in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., ii. 110. The Remonstrance and Petition of Child and others, and the Declaration in answer thereto, may be seen in Hutchinson’s Papers, p. 188 et seq.
[598] [For an account of this book and its history, and much relating to the embodiment of the Indian speech in literary form, see Dr. J. H. Trumbull’s chapter on “The Indian Tongue and the Literature fashioned by Eliot and others,” in Memorial History of Boston, i. 465, with references there noted.—Ed.]
[599] That part relating to the college was published in an early volume of the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[600] The originals of these tracts, with one exception, are in the possession of the writer, and they are for the most part in the Carter-Brown Library; and seven of them are published in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. iv. [Further bibliographical detail can be found in Dr. Dexter’s Congregationalism; Sabin, Dictionary; Dr. Trumbull’s Brinley Catalogue, p. 52; Field’s Indian Bibliography; Memorial History of Boston, i. 265, etc.; and more or less of the titles appear in the Menzies (nos. 1,475, 1,815, 1,816, 2,124, 2,125), O’Callaghan (nos. 852, etc.), and Rich (1832, nos. 237, 261, 263, 273, 280, 287, 292, 304, 316, 355) catalogues. Some of these Eliot tracts were used in compiling the postscript on the “Gospel’s Good Successe in New England,” appended to a book Of the Conversion of ... Indians, London, 1650 (Sabin, xiii. 56,742). Eliot’s own Briefe Narrative (1670) of his labors has been reprinted in Boston, and in the appendix of the reprint is a list of the writers on the subject. Letters of Eliot, dated 1651-52, on his labors, are in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1882. For an alleged portrait of Eliot and references, see Memorial History of Boston, i. 260, 261. A better engraving has since appeared in the Century Magazine, 1883.—Ed.]
[601] [Some copies of the second edition have a dedication to Robert Boyle and the Company for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians, signed by William Stoughton, Joseph Dudley, Peter Bulkley, and Thomas Hinckley.
AUTOGRAPHS CONNECTED WITH THE INDIAN BIBLE.
Eliot was assisted in this second edition by John Cotton, of Plymouth, son of the Boston minister; and the type was in part set for both editions by James Printer, an Indian taught to do the work. There is a notice of Boyle by C. O. Thompson in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., April, 1882, p. 54; and one of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, by G. D. Scull, in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1882, p. 157. Cf. Sabin’s Dictionary, viii. 552. A portion of the original manuscript records of the society (1655-1685) were described in Stevens’s Bibliotheca Historica (1870), no. 1,399, and brought in the sale $265. The bibliographical history of the Indian Bible is given in Dr. Trumbull’s chapter in the Memorial History of Boston, as before noted.]
[602] A copy is in the Carter-Brown Library, and another in the possession of the writer.
[603] See the list of Norton’s and Pynchon’s publications in Sabin’s Dictionary.