THE POCAHONTAS-JOHN SMITH STORY is most stoutly defended not by historians, nor even patriotic societies, but by poets, dramatists, and idealistic youth, who think that it is theirs, and by descendants, who know that it is theirs. The line is utterly Virginian be it in blood or ink from the Pocahontas, who like Will Rogers's ancestors "met the boat" to the Pocahontas who wrote the book. And so I sign here POCAHONTAS WIGHT EDMUNDS. _Halifax, Virginia_, _April, 1956._ FOOTNOTES: [1] Thomas Fuller, _The History of the Worthies of England_ (John Nichols, ed.; London, 1811), I, 189. [2] Charles Deane (ed.), "Edward Maria Wingfield, 'A Discourse of Virginia,'" _Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society_, IV (1860), 92-95n. [3] Henry Adams, "Captaine John Smith, Sometime Governour in Virginia and Admirall of New England," _Chapters of Erie and Other Essays_ by Henry Adams and Charles F. Adams, Jr. (Boston: J. R. Osgood & Company, 1871), pp. 192-224. [4] William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard Gay, _A Popular History of the United States_ (New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1885-1886), I, 282-283. [5] Alexander Brown, _The Genesis of the United States_ (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890), II, 1006-1010; _The First Republic in America_ (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1898), pp. 56-57, 469n. [6] William Wirt Henry, "The Settlement at Jamestown With Particular Reference to the Late Attacks Upon Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and John Rolfe," _Proceedings of the Virginia Historical Society at the Annual Meeting, February 24, 1882_ (Richmond: 1882). [7] Mary Newton Stanard, _The Story of Virginia's First Century_ (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928), p. 47. [8] Lyon G. Tyler, _Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625_ (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1907), p. 28. [9] Edward Arber (ed.), _Travels and Works of Captain John Smith_ (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), I, xiv-xv. [10] John Fiske, _Old Virginia and Her Neighbours_ (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), I, 103-108. [11] Allan Nevins, _The Gateway to History_ (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), pp. 139, 150. [12] Stanard, _op. cit._, p. 48. [13] Henry, _loc. cit._ [14] Edward Channing, _History of the United States_ (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925), I, 174. [15] Charles M. Andrews, _The Colonial Period of American History_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934), I, 142n. [16] Bradford Smith, _Captain John Smith, His Life and Legend_ (Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, 1953), p. 118. [17] John Smith, "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, 1624," _Travels and Works of Captain John Smith_ (Edward Arber, ed.; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), II, 395.