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 America g6i existing in the British Public Record Office and the British Dartmouth MSS." A portion of this correspondence is printed in the March num- ber of the Maryland Historical Maga::inc. A paper of interest in this issue is: "Transported Convict Laborers in Maryland during the Colonial Period ", by Mr. Basil Sollers. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, volume X. (Washington, 1907. pp. 276), contains a biographical sketch of the once famous Ann Royall, by Miss Sarah H. Porter, and a diary for 1800, the first year of the new national capital, kept by Mrs. Thornton, wife of Dr. William Thornton, designer of the Capitol and commissioner of the federal city. There is also an illustrated account, by Mr. F. E. Woodward, of the boundary-stones of the District of Columbia. The Bibliographical Society of .merica met in Asheville. N. C. May 25-28, in conjunction with the American Library Association and the National Association of State Librarians. Of chief historical interest was a symposium on " The First Presses of the Southern States "'. The first presses of Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama were described by Dr. Thomas M. Owen, director of the Alabama Depart- ment of .rchives and History: those of South Carolina by Mr. A. S. Salley, jr.. secretary of the South Carolina Historical Commission; those of Tennessee by Mr. Edwin Wiley, of the Library of Congress, formerly of Vanderbilt University. The Southern History Association in its Publications for January prints two interesting letters from George Canning (1822) to Stratford Canning, English ambassador at Washington, relative to the attitude of the United States toward Cuba. There is also an interesting sketch liy ]. G. de Roulhac Hamilton of a secret society known as " The Heroes of .America ", which flourished in North Carolina for a time after the close of the Civil War. The ^March number prints some Sumter letters, mainly letters from General Greene to Sumter taken from Greene's letter-books, but also one letter from Sumter to Joseph Martin, Decem- ber 7, 1763, from the Draper collection. An item of some interest is: "French Immigrants to Louisiana, 1796-1800 ". material communicated by L. M. Perez. It is presumed that this is from the Cuban archives, but unfortunately no indication of its source is given. Additional por- tions of the ^McHenry papers (January) and the Doolittle correspond- ence (January and March) are given. The Bulletin of the New York Public Library for April completes the list, begun in February, of works in the library relating to 'irginia. In the Historical Department of the Jamestown Exposition, directed by Mr. Albert Cook Myers, has been gathered together a remarkable collection of material relating to .A.merican colonial history. The col- lections for Pennsylvania and Virginia are particularly worthy of note. The latter embraces more than a thousand pieces, including many inter- esting autographs, documents illustrating various departments of the colonial government, local records and business papers of that period, and much Revolutionary matter.