PREFATORY REMARKS. THE papers printed in this and the following volume, forming the 9th and 10th volumes of the Fourth Series, were collected, together with many others, during a long residence abroad, by the Chairman of the Publishing Committee. A large part of them had been in the possession of the late GEORGE CHALMERS, the distinguished American annalist, and after his death were dispersed among the booksellers of London. The entire collection is now the property of SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW, Esquire, an eminent counsellor of the city of New York. BOSTON, May 6, 1871. 83771 |