_ [Colonel Arent
Schuyler de Peyster, B. A.], 1774-1813. _New York: A. E. Chasmar & Co._,
1888. 80 pp., and an appendix of cci. pp.

Pages xxvi.-xxvii. contain a letter from Arent De Peyster to Capt. McKee
describing an Illinois expedition against St. Josephs in 1780 or 1781.
Letter dated Detroit, Feb. 1, 1781.

_Draper Collection of Manuscripts._

This collection, made by Lyman C. Draper, is the property of the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin. It has been of more value to the writer
than any other single source, being especially helpful for the hitherto
obscure period immediately succeeding the expedition of George Rogers
Clark, 1779-1790. Most important of all are the Harmar Papers, although
the Illinois MSS., the Clark MSS., and Draper's Notes were much used. The
Hinde MSS. have little historical value, consisting as they do, largely of
religious musings of the writer's old age.

DUDEN, GOTTFRIED. _Bericht ueber eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten
Nordamerika's and einen mehrjaehrigen Aufenthalt am Missouri (in den Jahren
1824-1827) in Bezug auf Auswanderung und Uebervoelkerung. 1st ed. of 1500
copies. 2d ed. Bonn, In Commission bei Eduard Weber_, 1834. lviii. + 404
pp.

Contains a prediction of Illinois future greatness. Gives valuable
information concerning the cost and manner of transportation, and
concerning social life. Comparison of American and European conditions.

DUNN, JACOB PIATT, _Compiler. Slavery Petitions and Papers. In Indiana
Hist. Soc. Pub., II., 443-529. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company_,
1894.

"The following papers are the petitions to Congress from Northwest and
Indiana Territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of
the Ordinance of 1787, and the admission of slavery to the Territory,
together with the counter-petitions, the reports on them, and the
accompanying documents,"--Compiler's introduction.

_Edwardsville Spectator. Edwardsville, Ill.: Hooper Warren, pub., Apr. 18,
1820-Feb. 8, 1825, and 1820-22._

Material has been gleaned from the issues of Nov. 7, 1820; August 31,
1822; Nov. 30, 1822; Nov. 29, 1823; Jan. 27, 1824; and Oct 5, 1824. In
Library of Chicago Historical Society.

ERNST, FERDINAND. _Travels in Illinois in 1819. Translation from the
German Original._ In _Pub. No. 8 of the Ill. Hist. Lib._ pp. 150-65.
_Springfield, Ill.: Phillips Bros._, 1904.

Ernst was the leader of a party of German immigrants who settled at
Vandalia soon aft