2. Reports of General Superintendent and the Societies. J. W. Alvord, _Schools and Finances of Freedmen_ (Washington, 1866); J. W. Alvord, _Semi-annual reports, 1867-'70_; J. W. Alvord, _Letters from the South, relating to the condition of freedmen, Addressed to General O. O. Howard_ (Washington, 1870); American Missionary Association, _Annual report, 1862-1872_; Educational Commission for freedmen, _Annual report, No. 1, 1862-'63_ (Boston, 1863); and New England Freedmen's Aid Society, _Annual report, No. 2, 1863-'64_; New York National Freedmen's Relief Association, _Annual report, 1865-'66_ (N. Y., 1866). _Ibid._, _Brief History with 4th annual report, 1865_; Friends Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of Freedmen, _Annual report, 1866-71_; Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, _Annual report, 1869-'72_; American Baptist Home Mission Society, _Annual report, 1863-'72_; and Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, _Annual report, 1869-'70_. 3. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS. _The New York Times_; _The New York Tribune_; _The Charleston Daily Courier_; _The Darlington New Era_; _The Columbia Phoenix_; _The Nation_. _The Atlantic Monthly_, vol. XII (Sept., 1863). Edward L. Pierce--"The Freedmen at Port Royal"; _Atlantic Monthly_, vol. XII (May-June, 1864). Charlotte S. Forten, _Life on the Sea Islands_, _The North American Review_, vol. CI (July, 1865); William C. Gannet, _The Freedmen at Port Royal_; _The Southern Workman_, vol. XXX (July, 1901). Laura M. Towne, _Pioneer Work on the Sea Islands_; _The American Missionary_, 1862-'72, organ of the American Missionary Association; _The American Freedman_, 1866-'68 (incomplete), organ of American Freedmen's Union Commission; _The National Freedman_, 1865-66 (incomplete), organ of New York National Freedman's Relief Association; _Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin_, 1866-'67 (incomplete), organ of Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association; _Freedmen's Record and Freedmen's Journal_, 1865-'68 (incomplete), organ of New England Freedmen's Aid Society; _The Freedman_, London, 1866 (incomplete), organ of London Freedmen's Aid Society; and _The Baptist Home Mission Monthly_, 1878-'80, organ of American Baptist Home Mission Society. 4. DIARY, REMINISCENCES, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Eliza Ware Pearson (editor), _Letters from Port Royal, written at the time of the Civil War_ (Boston, 1906); Rupert S. Holland (editor), _Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, written from the sea islands of South Carolina_, 1862-1884 (Cambridge, 1912); Henry N. Sherwood (editor), _Journal of Mrs. Susan Walker, March 3d to June 6th, 1862_. _Quarterly publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio_, vol. 1, No. 1, 1912; Eliz Hyde Botume, _First days among the Contrabands_ (Boston, 1893); Oliver O. Howard, _Autobiography_, 2 vols., vol. 2 (New York, 1907); and A. Toomer Porter, _The History of a Work of Faith and Love in Charleston, S. C._ (New York, 1882).