Readers of the present volume who are unfamiliar with the pressmark and editorial abbreviations are referred to the preface of the preceding volume (frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio) for a convenient explanation. As with volume four of the Draper Series, the labor of preparing the copy of the present volume for the printer and seeing it through the press has been chiefly borne by Lydia M. Brauer, editorial assistant, and Annie A. Nunns, assistant superintendent, of the Society's staff.
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