Note 1005 — Chapter V · (continued 3)

There are in the Sparks MSS., xlix., no. 14, various papers used by Sparks in writing his life of Arnold, including the action of Congress on the seizure of Arnold's papers, and copies of the papers; letters written in 1833-1834 to Sparks and others, by David Hosack, Benj. Tallmadge, James Thacher, Nathan Beers, Professor Woolsey, John D. Dickinson, Samuel Eddy, James Lanman, James Stedman, J. Bronson, and William Shimmin,—mainly reminiscences. Cf. for some of these letters, the Mag. of Amer. Hist., Dec., 1879. Copies of Arnold's letters from Philadelphia in 1779-1780 are in Ibid., lii. vol. ii. no. 3. There is a "Genuine history of Arnold by an old acquaintance" in the Political Mag., i. 690.