Bradford’s Letter Book, containing copies of important letters addressed to him, was lost, like his History. Fragments were rescued in a grocer’s shop in Halifax, and printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. _Collections_, iii., and in Young’s Chronicles. In vol. iii. of the _Collections_ may be found his “Account of New England in Verse.” His “Word to Boston” and “Word to New England” appear in vol. xxvii. of the same: and two others of his poems in the _Proceedings_ for 1870,--“Some Observations of God’s Merciful Dealings with us in this Wilderness,” and “A Word to New Plymouth.” A little piece called “Epitaphium Meum” was printed by Morton in his Memorial. Bradford’s letters to Winthrop are printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. _Collections_, 4th series, vol. vi. In conjunction with Edward Winslow, Bradford wrote “A Diary of Occurrences,” covering the first year of the colony, which may be found in the Mass. Hist. Soc. _Collections_, viii. and xix. Bradford’s First Dialogue, given in the present leaflet, was first printed in 1648. It was copied by Morton in the records of the Plymouth Church, and thence reprinted by Young in his “Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers,” in 1841. It is of the highest historical value, giving fuller accounts than we have elsewhere of many of the first English Independents. Bradford’s Second Dialogue is lost. Deane says, “I have never seen it, nor any reference to it.” The Third Dialogue, “Concerning the Church and the Government thereof,” was published in the _Proceedings_ of the Mass. Hist. Soc. for 1870, with an important historical introduction by Charles Deane. Mather included a biography of Bradford in his _Magnalia_. This was reprinted in the first series of Old South Leaflets. FOOTNOTES: [1] That is, the Dialogue was held or written in 1648. [2] Here something seems to have been omitted. [3] Some word is here omitted. Transcriber’s Notes The year on page 24 “born at Austerfield, a little village in Yorkshire, in 1688” was corrected to 1588. Italics are represented thus _italic_, superscripts thus y^n.