viii Report of Committee.

Sainsbury calls our attention and your Committee have ordered it to be
transcribed. The remaining five books are not known to be in exist-
ence, though your Committee do not give up the hope of their dis-
covery.

Mr. Sainsbury has interested in our work Mr. E. Maunde Thompson,
Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, who has had thorough
search made in that repository to discover if possible the " two consider-
able chests marked Calvert Papers," which Dr. John Henry Alexander
saw there in 1839—but the search has proved fruitless.

As with the former volume, every care has been taken to secure
minute accuracy. The copyists, Miss Harrison and Miss Morris, have
become familiar with the old contracted court hand, and their tran-
scripts even from MSS. that are almost illegible from age and stains
have been surprisingly accurate.

The Committee desire to record their high appreciation of the service
rendered by Dr Wm. Hand Browne, whose scholarly tastes and acquire-
ments have contributed in a large degree to the approval with which
these volumes have been received.

The printing establishment of I. Friedenwald continues to keep up the
high character of work done on the first volume, and in every respect
their contract has been performed to the entire satisfaction of die Com-
mittee.

The hearty commendation given the first volume by scholars and the
press, both at home and abroad, has been exceedingly gratifying to the
Committee, the Editor and those engaged in its preparation, and the
liberal appropriation by the last Assembly shows that that Body recog-
nizes the value of the work done by the Society in making the Archives
of the State accessible to all.

JOHN W. M. LEE,
BRADLEY T. JOHNSON,
HENRY STOCKBRIDGE,

Committee.

The above Report having been laid before the Society at its regular
meeting on October 13th, 1884, was on motion accepted, approved and
ordered to be printed.

JOHN H. B. LATROBE,

President.
MENDES COHEN,

Corresponding Secretary.