And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; or E. PONSONBY, 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. [Cd. 2201.] Price 2s. 3d. 1904. -J INTRODUCTION. THE American Manuscripts preserved at the Royal Institution, "AMERICAN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS" "Presented to the Royal Institution of Great Britain "These papers belong'd to Mr. M. Morgann, Secretary "Maurice Morgann died March 28, 1802, aged 76. In the library of Harvard are a few transcripts of these papers made by Mr. Jared Sparks. They were also consulted by the historian George Bancroft. The attention of the late Mr. B. F. Stevens was early called to these papers in the course of his researches for his comprehensive catalogue of manuscripts relating to the American Revolution, and he immediately set to work to examine, catalogue, and collate them with his other historical material. The complete collection comprises 58 bound volumes and 4 cases or rolls-62 in all. They are bound with a certain regard to subjects. The dates thus overlap, and the papers themselves |