Warden, David Bailie.

various lists of flora and fauna ("American Ornithology", etc.) drawn from published sources; bibliographies on various subjects relating to the United States including exploration, geography, natural history, history, religion, Native Americans, and cartography; "Description de pierres observées dans La Caroline du Nord &c &c By Palisot de Beauvois, member of the Royal Institute &c", 11 pages; "Of the probable duration of the American Republic", 10 pages; "Estimate of the Western Indians", 6 pages; "A Brief Narrative of the remarkable events of the American Revolution", 18 pages; "A Brief account of the Natives of the country situate between the great chain of Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean", 18 pages; cuttings from newspapers on subjects relating to Native Americans, and transcripts of various speeches and letters by Native American Chiefs, mostly taken from printed sources, 33 pages, 4to; together with 4 autograph letters by D.B. Warden to Messrs Constable enclosing various of these manuscripts, 4 pages, 4to and 8vo, Paris, 8 June to 20 September 1818; about 385 pages in total, plus blanks, in various hands and on various paper-stocks, folio except where otherwise stated, bound in grey-paper boards with a general title "MSS | by D.B. Warden | late Consul for the United States at Paris | Not printed", binding worn especially at joints and spine, signature clipped from one letter, some dust-staining 

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The Irish-born Warden (1788-1845) was American consul at Paris for over forty years. He amassed two large libraries of Americana, one of which was acquired by Harvard in 1823. These various reports were sent by Warden to his publisher, presumably to supplement his Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America, 3 vols, Constable, 1819, but they were not printed in that work.