rt of thing he and his kind were ready to do to
redress the wrongs of slavery.

The extracts have been arranged in chronological order, except in a
few cases where chronology has seemed less important than
subject-matter. They tell a complete story, the greater part of which
falls within the period of the Civil War. They give a vivid notion of
the life from the midst of which they were written; of the flat,
marsh-riddled country, in which few Northerners saw any lasting charm;
of the untidy, down-at-the-heels plantations; of the "people," wards
of the nation, childish, irritating, endlessly amusing; of the daily
toil of Northern men in managing farms and of Northern women in
managing households under Southern and war-time conditions; of the
universal preoccupation with negro needs; of the friendly interchange
of primitive hospitality; of the underlying sense in the writers'
minds of romantic contrast between their own to-day and the yesterday
of the planters,--or a possible to-morrow of the planters. It is not
with matters military or political that these letters deal. They
record the day to day experiences of the housekeeper, the teacher, the
superintendent of labor, and the landowner. For this reason they form
a new contribution to the history of the Port Royal Experiment.

[Illustration: THE SEA ISLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.]

KEY TO MAP OF THE SEA ISLANDS OF
SOUTH CAROLINA

PLANTATIONS.

Cherry Hill (T. A. Coffin) 16
Coffin's Point (T. A. Coffin) 12
Corner (J. B. Fripp) 5
Eustis 2
Alvirah Fripp (Hope Place) 18
Edgar Fripp 20
Hamilton Fripp 10
J. B. Fripp (Corner) 5
Capt. John Fripp (Homestead) 8
Capt. Oliver Fripp 22
Thomas B. Fripp 9
Fripp Point 11
Frogmore (T. A. Coffin) 19
Rev. Robert Fuller ("R.'s") 4
Hope Place (Alvirah Fripp) 18
Dr. Jenkins 21
Mary Jenkins 28
Martha E. McTureous 14
James McTureous 15
Mulberry Hill (John Fripp) 17
The Oaks (Pope) 3
Oakland 6
Pine Grove (Fripp) 13
Pope (The Oaks) 3
"R.'s" (Fuller) 4
Smith