These are all in the library of the Tennessee Historical Society.
For original matter connected with Kentucky, I am greatly indebted to Col.

Reuben T.Durrett, of Louisville, the founder of the "Filson Club," which has done such admirable historical work of late years.

He allowed me to work at my leisure in his library, the most complete in the world on all subjects connected with Kentucky history.

Among other matter, he possesses the Shelby MSS., containing a number of letters to and from, and a dictated autobiography of, Isaac Shelby; MS.
journals of Rev.James Smith, during two tours in the western country in 1785 and '95; early files of the "Kentucke _Gazette_"; books owned by the early settlers; papers of Boon, and George Rogers Clark; MS.

notes on Kentucky by George Bradford, who settled there in 1779; MS.