The Madison and Monroe papers, also kept here, are not yet bound; I quote them as the Madison MSS.

and the Monroe MSS.
My thanks are due to Mr.W.C.Hamilton, Asst.

Librarian, for giving me every facility to examine the material.
At Nashville, Tennessee, I had access to a mass of original matter in the shape of files of old newspapers, of unpublished letters, diaries, reports, and other manuscripts.

I was given every opportunity to examine these at my leisure, and indeed to take such as were most valuable to my own home.

For this my thanks are especially due to Judge John M.Lea, to whom, as well as to my many other friends in Nashville, I shall always feel under a debt on account of the unfailing courtesy with which I was treated.