[1271] Cf. Thomson’s Bibliog. of Ohio, 450.
[1272] Sparks’s Catal., p. 224; also Sparks’s Washington, i. 48, ii. p. x. Sparks considered that these papers “filled up the chasm occasioned by the loss of Washington’s papers” in the Braddock campaign. Referring to Washington’s letters during the French war, Sparks (ii., introd.) says that Washington, twenty or thirty years after they were written, caused them to be copied, after he had revised them, and it is in this amended condition they are preserved, though several originals still exist. In his reply to Mahon (Cambridge, 1852, p. 30) Sparks says that this revision by Washington showed “numerous erasures, interlineations, and corrections in almost every letter,” probably meaning in those whose originals are preserved. With the canons governing Sparks as an editor, this revision was followed in his edition of Washington’s Writings; but the historian regrets, as he reads the record in Sparks’s volumes, that the Washington of the French war has partly disappeared in the riper character which he became after he had known the experiences of the American Revolution.
[1273] The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-58, Richmond, 1883-84, 2 vols.
[1274] Brinley, ii. no. 4,189, a copy which brought $560. Though described as in “the original marble wrapper,” it did not have a map, as the copy noted in the Carter-Brown Catal. (iii. 1,033) does, though this may have been added from the London reprint of the same year, which had “a new map of the country as far as the Mississippi.” This map is largely derived from Charlevoix. Trumbull, in noting this reprint (Brinley, ii. 4,190), implies that the original edition did not have a map, which may be inferred from what Washington says of its being put hurriedly to press, after he had had only a single day to write it up from his rough notes. This London reprint is also in the Carter-Brown library (iii. no. 1,034), and Thomson’s Bibliog. of Ohio (no. 1,187) records sales of it as follows: (1866) Morrell, $46; (1867) Roche, $49; (1869) Morrell, $40; (1870) Rice, $52; (1871) Bangs & Co., $28; (1875) Field, $30; (1876) Menzies, $48. The Brinley copy brought $80. Cf. Rich., Bib. Amer. Nova (after 1700), p. 105; Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 1,623; Stevens, Hist. Coll., i. no. 1,618; F. S. Ellis (1884), no. 310, £7 10s. Sabin reprinted the London edition in 1865 (200 copies, small paper), and other reprints of the text are in Sparks’s Washington, ii. 432-447; in I. Daniel Rupp’s Early History of Western Pennsylvania, and of the West, and of Western Expeditions and Campaigns, from 1754 to 1833. By a gentleman of the bar. With an appendix containing the most important Indian Treaties, Journals, Topographical Descriptions, etc. Pittsburgh, 1846, p. 392; in the appendix to the Diary of Geo. Washington, 1789-91, ed. by B. J. Lossing, pp. 203-248, with notes by J. G. Shea, N. Y., 1860, and Richmond, 1861; and in Blanchard’s Discovery and Conquests of the North West, app., 1-30, Chicago, 1880.
Stevens (Hist. Coll., i. p. 131) says the “original autograph of Washington’s Journal” is in the Public Record Office in London.
St. Pierre’s letter to Dinwiddie was also printed in the London Magazine, June, 1754. This and the allied correspondence are in the Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 164, etc.; and in Lossing’s ed. of Washington’s Diaries.
The letter of Holdernesse to the governors of the English colonies, authorizing force against the French, is in Sparks’s Franklin, iii. 251. Sir Thomas Robinson’s letter (July 5, 1754) urging resistance to French encroachments, with the comments of the Lords of Trade, is in the New Jersey Archives, viii. pp. 292, 294; where will also be found Robinson’s letter (Oct. 26, 1754) urging enlistments (Ibid., Part ii. p. 17.)
[1275] Washington, ii. 7.
[1276] Penna. Archives, ii. 233.
[1277] Sparks’s Washington, ii. 23; Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 1,051, with an erroneous note; Thomson, Bibliog. of Ohio, no. 809; Leclerc, Bib. Amer., no. 761.