Archy's mother was named Maria. Maria had four children: Archy, Candace, Pompey and Quitman. (I am the daughter of Candace.) At the time Charles A. Stoval took Archy to California, Maria with her other children were with Simeon Stoval, the father of Chas. A. Stoval. Chas. A. Stoval had been graduated in medicine and had returned home to begin practice, but his health having failed him, he went to California, taking my Uncle Archy with him. My grandmother Maria heard through the relatives of Stoval of Archy during the time Stoval remained in California. But near the close of the Civil War, Chas. A. Stoval returned to Mississippi and remained there until his death a few years later. After Stoval came back from California, my grandmother never heard any more of her son Archy, except when she once heard that he was with the Indians, who were treating him for some kind of sickness. Whether he died or whether this rumor was put out to keep the Stovals from trying to steal him and bring him back to Mississippi I have never been able to learn. My grandmother Maria continued to search for Archy, by writing several times to San Francisco, but without success. She died in 1884. Pompey and Quitman continued to live near Jackson, Miss., where Quitman died some time ago. Pompey was still alive when I last heard of him. MRS. R. A. HUNT * * * * * _German East Africa_, by A. F. Calvert, has been published by Werner Laurie, London. Messrs. Routledge, of London, will soon bring out a volume of _Select Constitutional Documents Illustrating the History of South Africa_. Dr. H. K. W. Kumm's history of modern missionary work has appeared with imprint of MacMillan with the title _African Missionary Heroes and Heroines_. Doubleday, Page and Company announce the appearance of _Education and Life_, by Doctor Francis Greenwood Peabody, of Harvard University. This is a short history of Hampton Institute during the last fifty years, prepared at the request of the trustees. THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY VOL. III--OCTOBER, 1918--NO. 4 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MISCEGENATION OF THE WHITES AND BLACKS