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tho Que'bec Expedition of 1775, of which only 100 copies were
privately printed.
Autograph Letters.
During the year, three manuscript lctters of Gtcphen Girard,
written in 1800, and 1811, onc of Gov. Francis R. Sliunk,
of Penn., 1841, anrl of IIon. S. L. Southard, 1826, from
Dr. JOHN CUILIVEN; of Lord Napier, and Gen. J. E. Wool,
from V. W. ROTII; of Earl Derby, i;.oebuck, Hume ant1 other
English notables, from Col. A. :YI<LLIB ;TON HART; a large
number of American statcsmen, Clay, Webstcr, R. '11. John-
son and others, fro~n \I'M. DROTIIERIIEAD. A f:~c-simile letter
of Gen. Washington, from IIon. A. 11. VANWIE.
Manuscrkt IIistorical Narratires.
Col. EBENEZER CIIILDS, who came to Wisconsin in the spring
of 1820, and now the oldcst surviving American settler, has
furnished his narrative of reminiscences OF thirty-eight years'
recollections, in 35 pages; JOHN IT. FONDA, of Prairie du
Chien, his narrative OF reminiscences of the Winnebago and
T.
Blnck Hawk wars, and anterior events; IIon. JOIIN I.LNGS-
N.
TOW'S reminiscences OF JVisconsin sinco 1834; STRANGE
in
PALMER'S 1836; 17 Letters on the political history of Wis-
- consin, by Hon. JOIIN SMITH; 325 11s. letters of the late
Y.
IIon. Thomas P. Burnett, relating to early public evcnts in
Wisconsin, from Rev. A. CRUSSOX; and brief statements rcla-
tivc to mounds and turnuli-in Richlt~nd county, by Rev. AN-
DREW UENTOX-in Green Laltc county, by J. V. SWISTTINO-
in Beloit and vicinity, by E. F. HOBA~IT-in and around
and
Whitewater, by Rev. 11. 0. ~IONTAGUE- Muscoda, by
at
A. J. RICHARDS.
Additions to the Cabinet.
AN ANCIENT GUN.-Presented by Pn~sco.r~ I~EIGEAM.
This gun was the propcrty of Jolln Prcscott, and was brought
by liim from L~ncashire, Engl~lnd, who went first to Earbndoes,
and owned land thcre in lli38, and came to New England about
1640. In 1645, Sholan, the Indian proprietor of Nashawog,