The story of Major Acland and Lady Acland has long been one of the romantic episodes of the campaign. The family account is given by W. L. Stone in the _Mag. of Amer. Hist._ 1877 (iv. 50), and Jan., 1880, and in _Lippincott's Mag._, Oct., 1879.[851] The various stages of the negotiations which resulted in what is known as the "Convention" can be followed in the documents given in Fonblanque (p. 306); Wilkinson's _Memoirs_ (pp. 304, 306, 317); Dawson (i. 303); Stedman's _Amer. War_; Stone's _Campaign of Burgoyne_ (p. 102); and O'Callaghan's _Orderly-Book of Burgoyne_. The original definitive articles are in the N. Y. Hist. Soc., and fac-similes of the signatures are in Lossing's _Field-Book_ (i. 79).[852] Wilkinson carried the news of the surrender to Congress (Wilkinson's _Memoirs_; Wells's _Sam. Adams_, ii. 494). Gates describes his own success to his wife (Moore's _Diary_, 511). Chaplain Smith gives some details of the meeting of Gates and Burgoyne (_Chaplain Smith and the Baptists_, p. 222). There are reminiscences in Surgeon Meyrick's letter in Trumbull's _Autobiography_ (p. 301), and papers in _Pennsylvania Archives_ (vol. v.). Recollections of Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon, an actor in the scene as written out in 1835, are in the Appendix (no. 13) of Stone's _Campaign of Burgoyne_. The comment of Wm. Whipple is in _N. H. State Papers_, viii. 707. Burgoyne's letter from Albany, Oct. 20, to Germain is in his _State of the Expedition_.[853] De Lancey (App. p. 674, to Jones's _New York during the Rev._) collates the authorities on the strength of the respective armies. Gates's returns of his army (11,098) are in the Gates MSS. Burgoyne, in his _State of the Expedition_, gives Gates's returns as 18,624,—the difference may be the number of sick and furloughed men. Burgoyne praised Gates's men after he had seen them (Fonblanque, 316). The numbers of Burgoyne's army are given in Appendix D in Fonblanque. The question is also examined in the App. of Stone's _Campaign of Burgoyne_. Gordon (_Amer. Rev._, ii. 578) gives the number surrendered at 5,791; but there is a great difference in the estimates. Alexander Scammell makes it 10,611 in _Letters and Papers, 1777-80_ (Mass. Hist. Soc. Cabinet). In the Stark MSS. is a table of Burgoyne's losses (14,000), covering the whole campaign, and put into verse (_Sparks MSS._, xxxix.).[854] Respecting the campaign as a whole, the best contemporary accounts on the American side are found in the official correspondence as embraced in Sparks's _Washington_ (iv. 486, etc.) and _Correspondence of the Revolution_ (vol. ii., App.), and in the letters of the commanding generals.[855] Various important letters are put in evidence in the _Proceedings of the general court martial for the trial of Maj.-Gen. Schuyler, Oct. 1, 1778_ (Philad., 1778).[856] An account of Alexander Bryan, Gates's chief scout, is in the App. of Stone's _Campaign of Burgoyne_.