I happened to know something of the labor and carefulness with which you have accumulated the material of your book, and do not hesitate to say, your facts are entitled to the reliance which candid men bestow upon ascertained truth. With sincere regard Your friend, E. A. NISBET. I fully concur in the above sentiments of the Hon. E. A. Nisbet, and cheerfully add to the same what little influence my name may give to the enterprise. WASHINGTON POE. REV. GEORGE WHITE, DEAR SIR: MARIETTA, GEORGIA, June 27, 1853 It affords me much sincere pleasure to learn that you propose at an early day to publish your Historical Collections of Georgia. Having frequently had the pleasure of meeting you in various sections of the State whilst engaged in the collection of materials for it, and witnessed your energy and industry, and the access afforded you to the most reliable resources, I feel every confidence in the success of your enterprise. Your friend and obedient servant, REV. GEORGE WHITE, DEAR SIR: ANDREW J. HANSELL. MARIETTA, 20th January, 1854. I have given your Historical Collections of Georgia a hasty examination, and find in them much of value and interest which was before locked up in old records, &c. The work presents, in a condensed form, all that is valuable in a more diffusive history of the same matters, and places within the reach of the people a pretty satisfactory account of their own State from its first settlement to the present time. I recommend it to individual and public patronage, and have no doubt that the General Assembly, as the patron of Education and Literature, will gladly avail itself of the opportunity afforded by you, of distributing through the several counties a work which contains so much to interest every citizen of Georgia. Allow me to express a hope that you may be rewarded for the time, labor, and money you have expended, I may say in the public service. I have the honor to be CHARLES J. Mc DONALD. 2 BELAIR, July 5, 1853. DEAR SIR: I do not hesitate to express the belief, that the work which you are now preparing for the press, will be instructive and interesting. Its portions relating to the Colonial History of Georgia cannot fail to be attractive, from the patriarchal character of the government, the minute details of its administration, the bestowal of liberal charities by the mother country, the first steps and subsequent progress of the dissenters, distressing apprehension arising from the warlike temper and neighborhood of numerous tribes of Indians, and other topics connected with that age and its actors. Your accustomed energy in faithfully compiling and correctly annotating, must impart a relish to your work agreeable to the taste of every reader. We are much gratified to learn that you have at length completed your Historical Collections of Georgia. From the vast amount of valuable material which your energetic researches have brought to your command, and the time you have been engaged in arranging and preparing it, we doubt not that your work will be possessed of rare interest to the people of Georgia. We are, dear sir, with much respect, ROBERT COLLINS, BENJ. E. STILES, H. G. LAMAR, J. H. R. WASHINGTON. DEAR SIR: CARLISLE, 24th December, 1853. The pressure of my engagements up to the moment of my departure from Washington, prevented me from writing to you while I was there. I took some leisure moments, however, to look through your proposed publication of the Historical Collections of Georgia, and have now to express to you the gratification it has afforded me. 3 Your example will, I trust, serve as a stimulus to others, and will thus be the means of rescuing from oblivion many interesting events in our earlier history, which are rapidly passing away with their aged depositories. Your own work, which is well and handsomely executed, contains much valuable information, and will, I trust, secure to you a liberal public patronage, as well as the Legislative countenance to which it entitles you. With best wishes, Respectfully yours, THE REV. MR. WHITE. JOHN MACPHERSON BERRIEN. WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 16th January, 1854. We have examined the Historical Collections of Georgia, by the Rev. George White, and take pleasure in saying, that in our opinion it contains much that is interesting and useful. The work strongly commends itself to the liberal patronage of the people of the State. Georgia has appropriated large sums of money to collect in manuscript the colonial archives, and every record that can throw light upon her early history. Mr. White, after culling over these large volumes with great labor and considerable expense to himself, has brought out in his Historical Collections, (besides a great deal of other exceedingly interesting matter) many of the most interesting and useful of these incidents and facts connected with our colonial and revolutionary history which the Legislature went to so much expense to procure. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, Member of Congress, 8th Cong. District, Geo. JUNIUS HILLYER, M. C. 6th Con. Dist., Gev. DAVID A. REESE, M. C., 7th Con. Dist., Georgia. JAMES L. SEWARD, M. C., 1st Cong. Dist. WILLIAM C. DAWSON, U. S. S. JAMES M. WAYNE, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. ALFRED H. COLQUITT, M. C., 2nd Con. Dist. E. W. CHASTAIN M. C., 5th Con. Dist., Georgia. |