The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-16
AMERICAN RECORDS ON SALE.
Valuable Early MAnuserlpss and PAM
phne1s q Ne AueaIoaea 0d IN i.sndSa.


Valuable Early ManusevIpss and PAM
pAlets @ Ne AustIeaca on IN LSndoa.
FROM the LondOn Times
Two practically unknown collections OF
Documents for the most part unpubllshedD
and pamphlets relating TO America viii be
I offered for sale BY Mes-Ts. SOtheby, iiSin-
son q Hodge ON April Is. These cOllec-
tiona are the property Of lord POlwarth
and of X W Blathwayt Of Dyrham Park.
A portion Of Lord PoIwar'k'~ library was
sold a. sotbeby's In February OF last year
aud was remarkable for the many rare
American pamphlets which u contained.
one Of only twelve leaves realizing c2ss.
IL IL not clear how thee early Americana
came into the possession Of the present
owners family. seeing that none Of Lord
PolWaTth's ancestors had any oficial con
nertlon With America whom u vas an Eng
Iish colony These documents. however.
have apparently been in the family for over
two centuries and may have be~n acquired
by the Earl Of MarchmOnt. who held many
high Offices during the reigns or william III.
Anne and George l.. all Of which he l. said
TO have discharged with sunicien"y. can
dor aud hdelity.
The PoIwarth documents deal chiefly
With matters concerning plantations and
trades and vary from reasons for laying
an additional duty OF . penny q pound upon
| all fOD1tNO hulnofNtu lTOui ~ 80
account OF illegal trading In virginia,
Maryland aud Pennsylvania. with methods
for the prevention thereof. q dOcumen'
| written. like many others In this collection.
By Edward Randolph. Surveyor General
| Of Customs. Nv the same Ofncial there IL
q dis curse "a dOcuueOt of three pages
foliol Of how to render the plantations
more beneficial aud advantageous 20 this
Kingdom there being great numbers OF
FAR Pine aud Cyprus Trees growing IN the
Colony, att for mast Yards and bo~sprita
| Of ye largest dimensions. Another docu-
ment IL an autograph letter from Thomas
Cullen. dated August IL. Iess. concerning
the troubles In New England In connection
with Sir y Andro.'s Government
Inhabitants Of Boston in New England have
seiyed their Governor. Sir Edmond Andres.
. papist. for that he did deSigne TO have
brought the Indians In upon them aad TO
have burnt that Town These dOcu-
ments. with about forty others all dealing
with about the ans period, ! = the latter
! part Of the seventeenth century. are bound
! in folio volume With q large number Of
printed pamphlst~ and papers, all OF con
siderable rarity. dealing With America and
the West Indies and published isss-Ri
4 portfolio Of IsO leaves consists Of copies
Of Official papers relating TO spanish and
French depTedatiOn- in American ami The
We@t indies 1850
From a purely English point % view the
most interesting lot in the collection Is
the series Of London News Letters com
prisinx Otiicial news Of daily Occurrences.
dated from Whitehall and london. lGai-ss.
ADDRESSED 20 william scott Of Harden.
Befwick aud other scotch lsir.ls This
rich stOr~houSe Of contemporary history
consists OF several hundred letters On up
ward Of 00o leaves bv various ooniem-
porary hands and Is bound In nine volumes
L. l.. 1. H..
| The Second port ION Of the sale consists 81
he Blathwayt correspondence. iSSa-i7I0
he property of q. ". Biathway' Of DyT.
ham Park Gloure~tsr. Whos@ father. u
NAV ~. remembered sold his beautiful
IlObbema a. Christie'- In April. 1910. for the
RECORD prise Of . e., guinsas The Bath
wayt correspondence consists chiefly Of
letters addressed to W. Blathwavi. Se~re-
iary Of state aud Commissioner FOR Trade
aud p1Antat ions. relative to the American
Colonies during the last quarter % the
| seventeenth century The appea rance OF
this correspondence opens up me IRE
! 1uenfly discuns@i auest Ton a. 10 the legal
right Of descendants TO Oficisl documents
| ~ mote than two centuries have Daa@ed
aimee the~e letters were removed from
ofiiciAl archives IL NAV be taken thai .
time limit has lOng since expired. II l.
nevertheless a matter ~ regret that these
Documents are not now in the Record Ofics
!
| or British Museum seeing that they are all
Of very hiRh historic AMI .o'lAl lmpor'ah'"
IN ~" history OF Hr"a' hruan over me
ssaa Fourteen lots deal " ith NaSsa chuse't~
ADD 'onnsrii'n'' ana INC hr- OF ihr@"
CONSISTS OF seVeniN-Ior 'Niera from
E Randolph surveyor oi customs Tor New
England. iss2 - These le'ters have been
printed in Vol. " Of the Prince So'i~ty's
Publications. and 80 they are accessible 10
students They appear. however 10 ne
the only documents IN ih'- collection tha'
have been publi-h"i Perhaps The most
important lo' IL tho "oTre>pond~nce SIXTY
three le'ter-l between SIR ,. Andres. Gov
sTnor Of New York. le7a-si 81 New ENGLAND.
iss5-ss. and 81 virginia. 1875 and blHih
way' The-" letters form a valuable con-
/ trtbutiOn % the history OF the American
Colonies In one Important letter h" gives
an account Of his journey - hartford In
October. 1857. aud the famous seizure of
the charter there, and In another he gives
an acrount Of his seizure In the Council
Chamber ~ Ro-'on. 10 whi"h reference i