brought to Yale, where they have since been kept. Meanwhile, however, the originals, the Tocqueville manuscripts themselves, have somehow been mislaid and lost. With the consequence that the Yale reproductions are to-day the only records of them remaining and possess therefore the value of originals.

The third group of manuscripts is the small but important
collection of papers, already referred to, to be found in the library of
the Château de la Borde at Beaumont-la-Chartre. This group includes, in
addition to the notes for their Prison Report and for Beaumont's Marie,
a letter-book (BBlb) reproducing twenty-nine letters written home to his
family; an album of about thirty original pencil and ink sketches of
American scenes; a package of more than a score of letters received from
Americans during their expedition; and almost the whole correspondence
relative to their request for - their execution of - and their recall from -
the prison mission.

In addition, there are one or two items of considerable
interest in private hands in France. M. le Vicomte de Románet, a grandson
of Jules de Beaumont, is in possession at the Château du Guillets (par
Courgeout, Orne) of a second album of Gustave de Beaumont's pencil and
ink and wash sketches made during his American travels. Mme. de Langavant
of St. Malo has four of Beaumont's original letters home to his other
brother A. chille. And Mlle. de Stoffels-Hautefort of Versailles has a series
of three most revealing letters written by Tocqueville to Charles Stoffels
of Metz during the critical months just before and after the July Revolution.

Finally, there are a few original &c Tocqueville and Beaumont
letters - as well as a number of unpublished items referring to them - to be
found in the manuscript collections of the Library of Congress (Trist, Short,
Warden Papers), the Massachusetts Historical Society (Edward Everett and
Norton Papers), the Widener Library at Harvard (Papers of Sparks and

1. These copies, like those of M. Bonnel, are unusually legible and accurate. As a result, the writer has been able to use the Yale collection in making his translations and excerpts for the present work. In addition to the above-mentioned letters and essays, two other groups of documents now seem to be missing. The first are the letters that Tocqueville wrote to his future wife, Mary Mottley, from America; the second the "Journal" that Beaumont claimed to have kept during their travels, and from which he even published an extract (OC, V, 28-33). Mary Mottley probably herself burnt Tocqueville's letters from America, after his death, when she was making copies of parts of their correspondence. But whether Beaumont ever did keep a regular diary during their trip remains problematical.

2. These sketches, photographs of which are now in the Yale collection, will be reproduced when the present work is completed and published.