by a Volunteer upon
that Expedition,_ Quebec, 1872. This valuable diary is ascribed to
James Thompson, a volunteer under Wolfe, who died at Quebec
in 1830 at the age of ninety-eight, after holding for many years
the position of overseer of works in the Engineer Department.
Another manuscript, for the most part identical with this, was
found a few years ago among old papers in the office of the
Royal Engineers at Quebec. _Journal of the Expedition on the
River St. Lawrence_. Two entirely distinct diaries bear this name.
One is printed in the _New York Mercury_ for December, 1759;
the other was found among the papers of George Alsopp, secretary
to Sir Guy Carleton, who served under Wolfe (Quebec Historical
Society). Johnstone, _A Dialogue in Hades_ (Ibid.). The Scotch
Jacobite, Chevalier Johnstone, as aide-de-camp to Levis, and afterwards
to Montcalm, had great opportunities of acquiring information during
the campaign; and the results, though produced in the fanciful form
of a dialogue between the ghosts of Wolfe and Montcalm, are of
substantial historical value. The _Dialogue_ is followed by a
plain personal narrative. Fraser, _Journal of the Siege of Quebec_
(Ibid.). Fraser was an officer in the Seventy-eighth Highlanders.
_Journal of the Siege of Quebec, by a Gentleman in an Eminent Station
on the Spot, Dublin, 1759_. _Journal of the Particular Transactions
during the Siege of Quebec_ (_Notes and Queries_, XX.). The writer
was a soldier or noncommissioned officer serving in the light infantry.

_Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec and Total Reduction of Canada,
by John Johnson, Clerk and Quarter-master Sergeant to the
Fifty-eighth Regiment_. A manuscript of 176 pages, written when
Johnson was a pensioner at Chelsea (England). The handwriting
is exceedingly neat and clear; and the style, though often grandiloquent,
is creditable to a writer in his station. This curious production
was found among the papers of Thomas McDonough, Esq., formerly British
Consul at Boston, and is in possession of his grandson, my relative,
George Francis Parkman, Esq., who, by inquiries at the Chelsea Hospital,
learned that Johnson was still living in 1802.

I have read and collated with extreme care all the above authorities,
with others which need not be mentioned.

Among several manuscript maps and plans showing the operations
of the siege may be mentioned one entitled, _Plan of the
Town and Basin of Quebec and Part of the Adjacent Countr