Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864, By WILLIAM L. STONE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON, BART., Superintendent of Indian Affairs, residing among the BY WILLIAM L. STONE. This work, which fills an important link in American History, and which has been long delayed by the death of the late William L. Stone, has been completed by his son; and with the lives of BRANT, and RED JACKET, by the same author, brings down the history of the Six Nations, and their relations with the British Government and its Colonies, from 1534 to 1824. The materials from which the work has been derived, are principally the original papers furnished by the family of Sir William, among which is his very extensive manuscript diary, that has never before been consulted. The work will comprise two volumes octavo, and will be handsomely printed upon good paper, with a new portrait on steel of Sir William, from an original painting procured from his descendants in England. It will be furnished to subscribers at $6 in cloth binding The edition will be confined very nearly to the number subscribed for. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. The subscriptions of many of the leading men of the coun try are already obtained, among whom are President Lincoln, Ex-Pres. Fillmore, Gens. Scott and Dix, Sec. Chase, Geo. Bancroft, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Gov. Seymour, ExGov. Fish, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Potter, and eminent men in every walk of life have hastened to tender their patronage. A large paper edition of 50 copies only will be printed on tinted paper at $10, paper, sewed. J. MUNSELL, Publisher. TESTIMONIALS. CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 19th 1862. My dear Sir-I duly received your letter, and also the three chapters of the "Life and Times of Sir William Johnson." I have perused these chapters with great satisfaction, as containing many interesting facts with which I was before but little acquainted, set forth in a clear and animated style, and in a well digested, methodical arrangement. You have drawn so much from original sources, that your work will be a valuable contribution to our historical literature. Your knowledge of the principal localities has also given you an advantage, which few writers of similar works possess. I look forward with much pleasure to the perusal of the whole, when it shall come before the public. WM. L. STONE, Esq. Respectfully and truly yours, JARED SPARKS. NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 1862. My Dear Sir-Sir William Johnson could not have desired a more industrious, more able, or more friendly biographer than he has found in you. I am persuaded, from the specimen which I have read, that your elaborate work will contain every material fact in his history of which a record remains. Very truly yours, GEO. BANCROFT. WM. L. STONE, Esq. 8 WALNUT ST. BOSTON, 18 Dec., 1862. My dear Sir-I have had pleasure in examining the sheets of your forth coming work which you sent me. ble contribution to our history. Ideal that is new. WM. L. STONE, Esq. I am sure that it will prove a very valuaThe narrative is clear, and embodies a great Very truly yours, F. PARKMAN. OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CENTRAL PARK EXTENSION, Dear Sir-The immediate subject of your proposed work, together with its near and remote incidents, cannot fail to give it peculiar interest, and render its publication a valuable contribution to the historical literature of our country. Wishing you all possible success in your enterprise. L. BRADISH, NORTH SHORE, STATEN ISLAND, Feb. 9th, 1863. My Dear Sir-I have read the chapters of your history, and although I have no special fitness to speak of the life and times of which you treat, I can perceive and admire the simplicity and fullness of your story, and appreciate the great value of the original collections to which you have had access. DETROIT, Dec 30. Sir-My father is not very well, and he has requested me to acknowledge, in his name, the receipt of your letter, and of three chapters of your forthcoming work. The latter he has read with great pleasure, and has been much interested in the life of Sir William Johnson, and the history of the eventful times during which he lived. I am, sir, respectfully your obedient servant, WM. L. STONE, Esq. LEWIS CASS, JR. CHERRY VALLEY, Dec. 25, 1862. WILLIAM L. STONE, Esq.-My dear Sir-I received your letter, together with some of the printed sheets of your forthcoming work-the "Life and Times of Sir William Johnson." I read the sheets, and then gave them to my father to read. He is now in his 91st year, but still hale and hearty and with all his faculties preserved, and takes a deep interest in everything relating to Sir William. Your work will be a valuable addition to the ante-revolutionary history of New York. There were few men in the Province who filled so large a space in her Colonial annals as Sir William Johnson. A full biography of him was much needed-and I am sincerely rejoiced that your father's mantle fell on you, and that you have done the work so well. LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON.-We have been permitted to see a few chapters of a forthcoming biography of Sir Wm. Johnson. Most of the materials for it were collected by the late William L. Stone, whose life of Brant is so well known. His son, William L. Stone, has for a long time been diligently at work executing the plan which the father had conceived. We have been pleased with the chapters we have examined. The style is perspicuous, the narrative is flowing, and the positions taken are sustained by numerous and carefully prepared notes.--Providence Journal. William L. Stone, son of Col. Stone, the well known editor and biographer, is writing a Life of Sir William Johnson, which is soon to be given to the public. Sir William was general superintendent of Indian affairs in this country before the revolution, was distinguished in colonial history and active in the French and Indian war. His life was one of romantic interest and vicissitude. The materials for the promised work were mainly collected by the elder Stone, and are wrought by the younger into a narrative of vigor and ability.-Springfield Republican. |