| Description | Written from 1 Montague Road, Edgbaston, dated 20 May. Arber sends thanks for his election as a corresponding member of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and tells Draper [1815-1891, librarian and historian, corresponding secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society]: '[...] I am doing something towards making the early story of the United States better known in this country. For I feel that though two communities, we are one nation'. He sends his reprint of the works of Captain John Smith and mentions forthcoming reprints of 'the first three English books on America'. |