I must express my particular acknowledgments to Mr.Lemuel R.Campbell.The Nashville manuscripts, etc.

of which I have made most use are the following: * * * * * The Robertson MSS., comprising two large volumes, entitled the "Correspondence, etc., of Gen'l James Robertson," from 1781 to 1814.
They belong to the library of Nashville University; I had some difficulty in finding the second volume but finally succeeded.
The Campbell MSS., consisting of letters and memoranda to and from different members of the Campbell family who were prominent in the Revolution; dealing for the most part with Lord Dunmore's war, the Cherokee wars, the battle of King's Mountain, land speculations, etc.
They are in the possession of Mr.Lemuel R.Campbell, who most kindly had copies of all the important ones sent me, at great personal trouble.
Some of the Sevier and Jackson papers, the original MS.

diaries of Donelson on the famous voyage down the Tennessee and up the Cumberland, and of Benj.

Hawkins while surveying the Tennessee boundary, memoranda of Thos.

Washington, Overton and Dunham, the earliest files of the Knoxville _Gazette_, from 1791 to 1795, etc.