-4. Prepared for the Chicago
Historical Society. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1882._ 253 pp.

Indispensable for a specialist in this period of Illinois history. Well
written. Quotes many letters.

---- _Editor_. _The Edwards Papers. (Volume II. of the Chicago Historical
Society's Collections.) Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1884._ 8 + xxviii. +
633 pp.

Pages 86-90 give Capt. Thos. E. Craig's official report to Governor
Edwards of the attack on Peoria in 1812. The volume has a description of
Peoria in 1827, and considerable information concerning the Indian
troubles of that year.

WELBY, ADLARD, Esq. _A Visit to North America and the English Settlements
in Illinois, with a winter Residence at Philadelphia; __ solely to
ascertain the actual Prospects of the emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic,
and Commercial Speculator. London: J. Drury,_ 1821. 16mo. xii.+224 pp.

_Wheeling, Va. Report of a Meeting of Workingmen in the City of Wheeling,
Virginia, on forming a Settlement in the State of Illinois._ 12 pp.

The report is dated Oct. 4, 1830. Printed without place and publisher's
name. In Library of Chicago Historical Society. Rare. It set forth a
scheme for purchasing and settling a county in Illinois.

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL. _Sketches of the War, between the United States and the
British Isles: intended as a faithful History of all the material Events
from the Time of the Declaration in 1812 to and including the Treaty of
Peace in 1815. Rutland, Vt.: Fay & Davison_, 1815. 496 pp.

Contains Capt. Heald's official account of the massacre at Fort Dearborn,
August 15, 1812.

WOODS, JOHN. _Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English
Prairie, in the Illinois Country, U. S. With an Account of its animal and
vegetable Productions, Agriculture, &c. &c. A Description of the principal
Towns, Villages, &c. &c. With the Habits and Customs of the Back-woodsmen.
London: Longman & others_, 1822. 310 pp.

Of great value. Unusually conservative as to Illinois advantages, but
apparently truthful.

WRIGHT, JOHN S. _Letters from the West; or, A Caution to Emigrants. Salem,
N. Y.: Dodd & Stevenson,_ 1819. 72 pp.

A series of letters from one who traveled through the West in 1818-19. In
a fair manner the discouragements which emigrants may expect to meet are
portrayed. In Library of Chicago Historical Society.

II. Secondary Works.

ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT. _History of Maine from the earliest Discovery
of the Reg