Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-10
WRITINGS OF JOHN SMITH,
FOUNDER OF VIRGINIA
Had Time to Use Pen as Well as Sword
While Establishing the First Colo
ny i'm America.

I
the LenoX Library of New York. An.
other copy was sold several ycnrs
ago at auction with many other rare
volumes of Americana from the libra.
ry of the late S. l.. NJ. Barlow, and
was purchased by II private collector
I III New York a facsimile was print
ed by Wtggin 4 Lunt of Boston in
1866, with portraits of Capt Smith
and Pocahontas and Smiths famous
. copper plate engraved map of Vir-
i'ginia. which is familiar by many re.
prints The edition being limited To
two hundred and eighty copcs. they
are now very scarce and expensive
The first look about America in tho
English language was published at
Antwerp in 1911. by Jan van Does
borch, under the title:
"Of the ncwc landcs and of We
People founde by the Messengers of
| the Kyngc of Portyngale named
Emanuel.
"of the X dyucrs nacyons crys,
tened.
OF Pope Iohn and his landes. and
of the costely keyes and wonders
molodyes that in the land is"
This is a translation and compila-
ton from early Dutch publications
concerning the discoveries Of Column
bus. Americas Vespucci. and other
Spanish and Portuguese voyagcrs.
and is illuminated with fantastic
woodcuts representing the wonders"
of the new world. The name of the
compiler is unknown. but II was
probably the printer himself.
The second publication In the Eng
fish language concerning the Amer.
/, can hemisphere was printed In Lon.
don In 1853 by Richard Eden, and
dedicated to the Duke of Northumber-
land under the title
"a Treaties of the Newa India with
other Newe founde Landes and Is
andes rs well Eastwarde as West
warde"
Second Book About jamestown.
The second publication concerning
the colony in Virginia was published
in 1925 under the title.
"Obferuations gathered out OF
Difcourfe Of the Plantation of the
Southerne Colonic in Virginia by the
English. 1866. Written l,y that Hon
| orable Gentleman Matter George Per.
| cy'.
The writer. II brother of the .cele-
| brated Earl of Northumberland. was
one of the first colonists. ana sue.
ceeded Smith as governor of the
plantation. He was born September
! 4. 1906 and died unmarried in 1922.
"a gentlemen of Honour and Reso.
luton" He served with distinction
| In the wars Of the low countries.
where demonstrated. as his admins
| trative ability was tested as thu sue
cessor of Capt Smith His portr,it
may be found in the valuable colrc-
tion of the Virginia Hist real Sn.
ciety at Richmond.
do not know where an original OF
| Percy's little hook is preserved. bu.
n meagcr ahridgment was printed in
| "Pnrchas His Pilorimcs." in lG14.
with an apology for omissions. "hc.
| cause the rest is set downe more full
ly in Capt. Smiths Relation" Percy
gives in detail several important in.
| cidentS of the vovabp omitted by
Smith, and describes the movements
| Of the colonists until the, were H.
nally located at Jamestown. 1t is
specially valuable because these faces
and many OF the incidents are not
even alluded to by other writer's
| In 1909 four small tracts were cir.
culated in London to defend the man
agemcnt of the colony and advertise
its advantages as follows:
| |. "Saulcs Prohibition Staid, a re-
proof to those that traducc Virginia"
No original copy preserved.
| .. a sermon preached by Rev. Will
| liam Symondes before the London
| Company. April 20. 1909, concerning
conditions in the colony and it's i'm
| portance for the glory of God and the
glory of England. Symondes was
chaplain Of one Of the ships of tho
first expedition. and had returned
from the colony shortly before the
delivery of this discourse. The only
original copy of this pamphlet is in
mont in Dublin. Facsimiles have
been produced several times.
3. Nova Brittania Offering most
Excellent Fruites by planting in Vir.
ginia." a pamphlet to advertise til"
colony. No originals known, but
frequently reprinted.
4. "a Goode SDeede to Virginia
BY r G.. who neither in Person nor
In Purse Is able tn be n Participater
in the Business The only copy
known is in private library in Lon
don and bears the autograph of Sir
Walter Raleigh upon the title page.
In 1910 Lord Delaware published a
little book for the benefit of the Lon
don company which owned the Yir-
ginia plantations. and William Stra-
chey. who Joined the colony as secre
tary in May. 1910, published his book
and a compilation Of "Thc Lawes Di
vine" in 1912.
John Smiths Second Book.
In the same year. 1912. Capt. Smith
published his second volume relating
to the colony under the following
title:
"a Map of Virginia. With a Difrip.
tiOn of the contrey. the Commodities,