General Wolfe’s Instructions to Young Officers, Philadelphia, 1778.  This title is misleading, the book being a collection of military orders. General Orders in Wolfe’s Army (Quebec Historical Society).  This collection is much more full than the foregoing, so far as concerns the campaign of 1759. Letters of Wolfe (in Wright’s Wolfe), Despatches of Wolfe, Saunders, Monckton, and Townshend (in contemporary magazines). A Short Authentic Account of the Expedition against Quebec, by a Volunteer upon that Expedition, Quebec, 1872.  This valuable diary is ascribed to James Thompson, a volunteer under Wolfe, who died at Quebec in 1830 at the age of ninety-eight, after holding for many years the position of overseer of works in the Engineer Department.  Another manuscript, for the most part identical with this, was found a few years ago among old papers in the office of the Royal Engineers at Quebec. Journal of the Expedition on the River St. Lawrence.  Two entirely distinct diaries bear this name.  One is printed in the New York Mercury for December, 1759; the other was found among the papers of George Alsopp, secretary to Sir Guy Carleton, who served under Wolfe (Quebec Historical Society).  Johnstone, A Dialogue in Hades (Ibid.).  The Scotch Jacobite, Chevalier Johnstone, as aide-de-camp to Levis, and afterwards to Montcalm, had great opportunities of acquiring information during the campaign; and the results, though produced in the fanciful form of a dialogue between the ghosts of Wolfe and Montcalm, are of substantial historical value.  The Dialogue is followed by a plain personal narrative.  Fraser, Journal of the Siege of Quebec (Ibid.).  Fraser was an officer in the Seventy-eighth Highlanders. Journal of the Siege of Quebec, by a Gentleman in an Eminent Station on the Spot, Dublin, 1759. Journal of the Particular Transactions during the Siege of Quebec (Notes and Queries, XX.).  The writer was a soldier or noncommissioned officer serving in the light infantry.

Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec and Total Reduction of Canada, by John Johnson, Clerk and Quarter-master Sergeant to the Fifty-eighth Regiment.  A manuscript of 176 pages, written when Johnson was a pensioner at Chelsea (England).  The handwriting is exceedingly neat and clear; and the style, though often grandiloquent, is creditable to a writer in his station.  This curious production was found among the papers of Thomas McDonough, Esq., formerly British Consul at Boston, and is in possession of his grandson, my relative, George Francis Parkman, Esq., who, by inquiries at the Chelsea Hospital, learned that Johnson was still living in 1802.

I have read and collated with extreme care all the above authorities, with others which need not be mentioned.