DIARY, REMARKS, ETC. (on board the United States frigate _President_, Commodore Rodgers), made by M. C. Perry. [From March 19, 1811, to July 25, 1813]. LETTERS of M. C. Perry to his superior officers, and to the United States Navy Department, in the United States Navy Archives, Washington D. C.; in all, about two thousand. These are bound up with others, in volumes lettered on the back =Officers' Letters=, MASTER COMMANDANTS’ LETTERS, =Captains' Letters=. As commodore of a squadron, M. C. Perry’s autograph letters and papers relating to his cruises are bound in separate volumes and lettered: =Squadron, Coast of Africa, under Commodore M. C. Perry, April 10 1843, to April 29 1845=, [1 volume, folio]; =Home Squadron, Commodore M. C. Perry’s Cruise= [2 volumes, folio, on THE MEXICAN WAR]; =East India, China and Japan Squadron, Commodore M. C. Perry=, Volume I, December 1852 to December 31 1853; Volume II, January 1854 to May 1855 [2 volumes, folio]. LETTERS to naval officers, scientific men, and personal friends. _Printed._ Unsigned articles in _The Naval Magazine_, Brooklyn, N. Y. =Future Commercial Relations with Japan and Lew Chew.= =The Expediency of Extending Further Encouragement to American Commerce in the East.= ENLARGEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE, Pamphlet, New York, 1856. =Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan.= 3 volumes, folio. Washington, 1856. 1 volume, folio. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. The Perry family Bible, dates of births, marriages and deaths. Scrap books, kept at various periods of M. C. Perry’s life by the children and relatives of M. C. Perry. JAPANESE AUTHORITIES. _Kinsé Shiriaku_ (Short History of Recent Times, 1853–1869, by Yamaguchi Uji, Tokio, 1871 translated by Ernest Satow, Yokohama, 1873). _Genji Yumé Monogatari_ (Dream Story of Genji, inside history of Japan from 1850 to 1864), translated by Ernest Satow in _Japan Mail_, 1874. _Kinsé Kibun_ (Youth’s History of Japan, from Perry’s arrival, 3 volumes, illustrated, Tokio, 1874). _Hoku-é O Setsu Roku_, Official Record of Intercourse with the American Barbarians (made by the “Tycoon’s” officers, during negotiations with Perry in 1854; manuscript copied from the Department of State, Tokio, 1884). _A Chronicle_ of the Chief Events in Japanese history from 1844 to 1863, translated by Ernest Satow; in _Japan Mail_, 1873. Japanese poems, street songs, legends, notes taken by the writer during conversations with people, officers, and students, chiefly eyewitnesses to events referred to. The other authorities quoted, are referred to in the text and footnotes, or mentioned in the preface. II. ORIGIN OF THE PERRY NAME AND FAMILY.