9. A short account of the expedition against Quebec ... by an engineer upon that expedition (Maj. Moncrief), with a plan of the town and basin of Quebec, and part of the adjacent country, showing the principal encampments and works of the British army, and those of the French army during the attack of 1759. Catal. of Lib. of Parliament (Toronto, 1858), p. 1277. There is, or was, a MS. copy in the Royal Engineers’ office at Quebec. The original is without signature, but is marked with the initials “P. M.” (Miles, Canada, p. 493.)
10. Col. Malcolm Fraser’s Journal of the siege of Quebec. This officer was of the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders. It is printed in the Hist. Docs. of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, 2d series. Cf. “Fraser’s Highlanders before Quebec, 1759,” in Lemoine’s Maple Leaves, new series, p. 141.
11. In the N. Y. Hist. Coll. (1881), p. 196, is a journal of the siege of Quebec, beginning June 4, 1759, and extending to Sept. 13, accompanied (p. 217) by letters of its author, Col. John Montresor, to his father (with enclosed diaries of events), dated Montmorency, Aug. 10; Quebec, Oct. 5 and Oct. 18.
12. In Akins’ Pub. Doc. of Nova Scotia, p. 452, is a long letter (July-Aug.) from James Gibson respecting the progress of the siege.
13. In the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Register (1872), p. 237, is a brief journal of the siege, beginning July 8th, kept by Daniel Lane.
14. A letter dated at Quebec, Oct. 22, 1759, written by Alexander Campbell, in the Hist. Mag., iv. 149.
15. Joseph Grove’s Letter on the glorious success at Quebec ... and particularly an account of the manner of General Wolfe’s death, London, 1759.
16. Timothy Nichols was a private in the company of John Williams, of Marblehead, and reached Wolfe’s army, by transport, July 19. He notes the daily occurrences of cannonading, fires in the town, skirmishes, fire-rafts, the attack near Montmorency, ceasing his entries Aug. 22, and dying Sept. 9. The MS., which is defective, belongs to Dr. Arthur H. Nichols, of Boston, to whom the editor is indebted for extracts.
On the French side we have:—
1. The Second Report of the Hist. MSS. Commission (p. 30) notes, as among the Earl of Cathcart papers, a folio MS., “Journal de la expédition contre Québec, 1759.” It has 34½ pages, and extends from May 1 to May 10, according to the report.