The _Magazine_ is doing excellent work, exactly where this work is needed; and it could not render a better service to the study of American history than by printing these Robertson papers.
After the present volume was in press Mr.Oswald Garrison Villard, of Harvard, most kindly called my attention to the Knox Papers, in the archives of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, of Boston.

These papers are of great interest.

They are preserved in a number of big volumes.

I was able to make only a most cursory examination of them; but Mr.Villard with great kindness went carefully through them, and sent me copies of those which I deemed important.
There are a number of papers referring to matters connected with the campaigns against the western Indians.

The most interesting and valuable is a long letter from Col.