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Excerpt from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. 9 This volume of the Publications contains for the most part the important results of researches in Mississippi history that have been completed since the appearance of Volume VIII. The first part of the volume contains a number of important contributions to the different phases of State history - military, political, biographical, literary, religious, economic, and aboriginal - which have hitherto engaged the attention of investigators. The preceding volumes of this series have been devoted largely to the publication of new contributions to the exclusion of much valuable source material which the authorities of the Society have been anxious to give to the public. Upon the suggestion of the editor of these Publications and the voluntary surrender of half of the usual appropriations that have been made to the Society for historical publications, the Legislature of the State has provided for the regular and systematic publication in a separate series of all source materials of an official character. As a result of this wise policy the first volume of Mississippi Territorial Archives, edited by Hon. Dunbar Rowland, Director of the State Department of Archives and History, appeared in 1905. The Historical Society will continue to publish in connection with "the finished products of research" some of the most valuable unofficial sources of State history. It is hoped that in the future more space in its Publications will be available for this important class of contributions. The reader will be gratified to find three valuable contributions of this character in the current volume. The appearance of this volume marks the inauguration of another long-cherished plan of the editor, - the republication of very rare contributions of great historical value which, having been originally printed in ephemeral form in the remote past, are now inaccessible to investigators. The demand for this class of publications has been rendered almost imperative by the rapid development of historical investigation in Mississippi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.