F 336 .M77 100593 0.5 1925 Neither the Editor nor the Society assumes any responsibility for opinions or statements of contributors. INTRODUCTORY NOTE This volume of the Publications contains three contributions of unusual interest and merit. The first, by Mrs. Dunbar Rowland, dealing with the administration of Peter Chester, the last governor of the British Province of West Florida, gives for the first time an informative and pleasing narrative of British dominion previous to Spanish control of the territory now included in the States of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The sources of information from the English Public Record Office, London, are printed for the first time. The second contribution is by Dr. W. H. Weathersby of Mississippi College and relates to the history of Mississippi College from the beginning to the present time. It is an invaluable and scholarly study of the foundation, growth and work of the institution which fills such a great place in the cultural and spiritual work of the Baptist Church of Mississippi. The third paper gives the history of the Forty-sixth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A., in the form of a diary by W. P. Chambers, 1st Sergeant of Company B. The original copy of the diary has been preserved in the State Department of Archives and History since 1905. The work of copying and comparing was done by Miss Ruth Polk, a descendant of Sergeant Chambers, under the supervision of Dr. N. B. Bond of Mississippi Woman's College. The diary is one of great and lasting interest and it is creditable to the gallant soldier who wrote it. Mississippi Historical Society, The Capitol, Jackson, Mississippi, DUNBAR ROWLAND. |