Smith’s letter (1618) to Bacon, upon New England, is in the _Hist. Mag._, July, 1861, and the annexed autograph is taken from the original in the Public Record office. See Sainsbury’s _Calendar of Colonial Papers_, no. 42, p. 21; _Popham Memorial_, App. p. 104; Palfrey, _New England_, i. 97. [Illustration] A little tract of Smith’s, _New England’s Trials_ [_i. e._ Attempts at Settlements], needs to be taken in connection with the _Description_. Of this tract, of eight pages, published in 1620, there is no copy known in America, and Mr. Deane describes it and reprints it in the _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._ xii. 428, 449, from the Bodleian copy, which differs in the names of the dedication from the British Museum copy. In 1622 it was issued in a second edition, enlarged to fourteen pages, which is also very rare, though copies are in the Deane Collection and in that of John Carter-Brown, from the last of which a privately printed reprint has been made. It was this text which Force used in his _Tracts_, ii. See _Brinley Catalogue_, no. 363. Smith had moved, April 12, 1621, in a meeting of the Virginia Company, that its official sanction should be given to a compiled history of “that country, from her first discovery to this day,” showing that the purpose of his _Generall Historie_ was then in his mind. (Neill’s _Virginia Company_, p. 210.) The first edition of it was issued in 1624, and in it he included, besides abstracts of various other writings, substantially all his previous publications on America (see the chapter on Virginia in the present volume), except his _True Relation_, in the place of which he had put the _Map of Virginia_, a tract covering the same transactions. When reissued in 1626 it was from the same type, and again in 1627, and twice in 1632. An account of the various editions in the Lenox Library, which differ only in the front matter and plates, can be found in Norton’s _Literary Gazette_, new ser. i. pp. 134 _a_, 218 _c_. Mr. Deane has printed a part of the original prospectus. _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, ix. 454. The best opportunity for studying the slight diversities of the different issues of this book may be found in the Lenox Library, which has ten copies, showing all the varieties. Among other copies, the following are noted:— 1624., Charles Deane. A large paper dedication copy of this edition, bound for Smith’s patron, the Duchess of Richmond and Lenox, was bought, at the Brinley Sale in 1879, no. 364, for the Lenox Library, $1,800. The Menzies and Barlow copies are also called large paper ones. See _Griswold Catalogue_, no. 778; Field’s _Ind. Bibliog._ no. 1435. The _Huth Catalogue_, p. 1367, gives a copy of this edition in the original rich binding, showing the arms of the Duke of Norfolk quartered with those of his wife, the daughter of the Duchess of Richmond and Lenox. 1626., Harvard College Library. Sparks’s Collection, now at Cornell University, no. 2424.