No. 58, 1 vol., Letters and Papers of John Hancock. No. 78, 24 vols., Letters to President of Congress. No. 90, 1 vol., Letters of the commercial agents at Martinique to President of Congress. No. 137, 3 vols., Letters and Reports of Robert Morris, Agent of Marine. No. 138, 3 vols., Reports of the Board of Treasury, 1784-1789. Nos. 82-96, 132, 168, and 193. The Records and Papers of the Continental Congress are especially valuable for the years from 1780 to 1783. They contain many important letters of John Paul Jones. The letters of Pollock give a full account of his services at New Orleans. Deane, Silas. Papers in the library of the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. A few of these papers relate to the navy. Force Transcripts. These are copies of many of the Records and Papers of the Continental Congress, made by Peter Force, and now in the possession of the Library of Congress, Division of Manuscripts. The copying is accurately done. The pagination often differs from that of the originals. Hopkins, Esek. Letters and papers, in the library of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. Quite valuable for 1775, 1776, and 1777. The best of them have been printed in Edward Field’s Esek Hopkins. Jones, John Paul. Manuscripts, in the Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress. Have been excellently catalogued by C. H. Lincoln in Calendar of John Paul Jones Manuscripts. An important original source for the naval history of the Revolution. A number of the most important manuscripts, however, have been published, notably in Sands’s Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones. Marine Committee Letter Book. Letters of the Marine Committee and the Board of Admiralty, in the Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress. Quite the most important manuscript source for the history of the Continental navy from 1776 to 1780. Contains 217 pages, folio, and 505 letters. They are copies of the originals. Of these letters, 371 were written by the Marine Committee between August 22, 1776, and November 20, 1779; and 134 by the Board of Admiralty between December 10, 1779, and September 19, 1780. Eighty-six letters are addressed to the Navy Board at Boston. Hitherto the Marine Committee Letter Book has been little used. Tucker, Samuel. Papers, in the Harvard Library, Cambridge. Valuable for the career of Samuel Tucker, a captain in the Continental navy. The best of the papers have been published by J. H. Sheppard in his Life of Samuel Tucker, 1868. (See entry under Sheppard.) Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress Of noteworthy importance is a list of commissioned officers in the Continental navy, far more complete than any yet published.