Note 652 — Chapter IV

Cf. M. C. Tyler, Hist. Amer. Literature, ii. 270; J. Esten Cooke’s Virginia, 362. Stith speaks of Byrd’s library (3,625 vols.) as “the best and most copious collection of books in our part of America.” Byrd possessed the MS. of the Virginia Company Records, already referred to (Vol. III. p. 158). See some account of the Westover library in Maxwell’s Virginia Hist. Reg., iv. 87, and Spotswood Letters, i. p. x., where something is said of other Virginia libraries of this time. Grahame (United States, i. 148) evidently mistakes these manuscripts of Byrd’s for something which he supposed was published in the early part of that century on the history of Virginia, and which he says Oldmixon refers to.