The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-20
Correspondence Of The Rich,nend psspaa ~
John DAILY ssnrks che lEfssOFfalssafex
NOR by Charles S,ampbt1I Intes
rcsaang Reminfscences--Ths Hpoas.
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PRTRRsBuRG, june 70, 1866. IA
we have lately been kindly presented by
the author with the following works sss i5ars
1. Some Materials totserye for a sbrief'
Memoir of John DAILY Burk author of as
History Of Virginia, With 9. skessh OF the be
Life and character or his only chi ud.ssi
John Junius Enrk. Edited. oys Chartes
Campbell. Albany, N. ~; joel hsnnsell.
1861 PIP. LIZ. 80 ~ styssE
2. GeneaIogy OF the Sp0tswo0d Family In
Scotland and Virginia. BY Charles Camp
bell. AIbany:s Privately printed 1868,
pp. Al. s. 81. - SSsS ~, S.a4
The first thing that strikes the reader on.
opening these books Il, the superb manner,
in which they are gotten up. MIR. Munsen
is perhaps without q rival in such matters.
The binding iss plain but Substantial the
paper and Typography are such as 10 rem
der It q luxury to handis and read item.
even if they had little literary merit TX
5,.eons;aer;nr that MI. Bnrk has heen load
fnr s;Ytr 1peaTs the ,coliect;a,, ne r,star;als
for.a b;Syrar,ly % fhis jats, daSy Womb seem
to,he aIfnost :. honpjsas md aria mo. mat
Mr. CamnheI, has s,,ceaaJ s. ~ sssc,,;ns
even, thus much from ob,iyion has re,uired
unvearied DILIGENCE and an extensive cor.
respondence. But it WAS With him q labor
of love; il was the tribute which the best
historian Of Virginia OF the nrteasent dav AZ
i;cbted IN render to the hest b;stor;an'of =
former dav And mn1ar mi INC fl;sad.
yantages ATTENDING the search il will no ad :
,,;tsa5 10 hos Ans +hs Ssort ,;r y rarfSiIy
! M R,.rv DO ! On, Jr;sL,na, bv birth. Fl,o..
healed and ;,nnet,,o,,s and Getting mixed
me .ha t.omhSas ~ h;s nnsostmnats cn,n.
~, - Az 100 IF fhe lat cent,,rv no fied
- sn,ar;ca and landed IL Roston Din r;ng
tbe .aam;nistrat;on of Iohn Adams, He
handled the pen of q ready writer: COM
r,,sed several dramas was snccessiyely
The editor, Of several ~newsnapers: but not
s,,ccaeJ;no i'm his literary efforts. gor mt
6nd;no, the ,eor,la of Neyv EnoIona ~ cn,.
Genial temneraypsnt: he camas on South nm
FL be Snolfv made his home in Petersbnrr.
There are persons now living who well-re-
member him, He became acquainted with
Mr.. Jefferson, of whom he was an ardent
admirer, and under whose auspices he
wrote his history, which, owing to his mela
ancholy and untimely death, he never fin.
ished. This work was published in Peters
burg in 1904, in three volumes, and was
subsequently continued by SHELTON Jones.
who wrote .sixty-three pages Of the fourth
volume, which was completed by Girardin,
bringing the, narrative down to l78I.s1t
WAS published in 1916. The work is now
very rare. OF the fourth volume it is said
that nerhans NOT twenty comics are extant.
Several of this number-it is not known
Drecisely how unaware in private libra
ries In this CITY. $ 3 81 :s,..gil' II 49, :
AT time when party spirit ran very
high, it would have been marvellous if a
man Of Mr.. Burk's sanguine temperament
had not become deeply engrossed in politics.
Without intending It, he cot into difficulty
with Young Frencbman- by the name Of
Felix Ccuuebert, out Of which q less naughty
and imperious man might have escaped
without the least stain on his honor. -Cooue-
bert gave him the opportunity of doing SO
in very handsome letter, which Mr.. Camp
bell has published. But Burk would not
retract \ word: and the consequence was
tbot be was challenged hv Connehert. and q
,neo+inr arronged fora Monday morning
An,;l f 1sOs AZ the second fire; R,,rl,
fatI 'shot thuonrb tho bcort T,ond Coo,,ebn,t
and IS 49,, 49,.
Rurk was very nopnIar man--ratber. he
,ros rroofly beloyad hv Mi classes- The
whole citv so tn say followed his hodv 10
the prayc' 60. 60 - -,
Sfelton Joncs af.er making brief nro-s
,r.oss II, tbe cont ;,,,of;on of the b;atorv was
also killed IN q duel. =