1.  Waymouth (Capt.  George) Voyage to North Virginia in 1605.  By James Rosier.  London, 1605, 4°

2.  Sil.  Jourdan’s Description of Barmuda.  London, 1610, 4°

3.  Lochinvar.  Encouragements for such as shall have intention to bee Vndertakers in the new plantation of Cape Breton, now New Galloway.  Edinburgh, 1625, 4°

4.  Voyage into New England in 1623-24..  By Christopher Levett.  London, 1628, 4°

5.  Capt.  John Smith’s True Relation of such occurrences of Noate as hath hapned in Virginia.  London, 1608, 4°

6.  Gosnold’s Voyage to the North part of Virginia in 1602.  By John Brereton.  London, 1602, 4°

7.  A Plain Description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Islands.  London, 1613, 4°

8.  For the Colony in Virginia Brittania, Lavves Divine Morall and Martiall, &c.  London, 1612, 4°

9.  Capt.  John Smith’s Description of NewEngland, 16l4-15, map.  London, 1616, 4°

10.  Hariot (Thomas) Briefe and true report of the new foundland of Virginia.  London, 1588, 4°

‘Mr. Secretary Outis’ undertook the task of seeing the reprints of the original texts of these ten volumes through the Press, and almost the whole of this work he actually accomplished.

The co-operative objects of the Association, however, appear never to have been fully inaugurated, although a large number of literary men, collectors, societies and libraries entered their names as Members of the Club.  All were willing to give their pecuniary support as subscribers to the Club’s publications, but few offered the more valuable aid of their literary assistance; hence practically the whole of the editing also devolved upon Mr. Henry Stevens.

He first took up No. 10 on the above list, Hariot’s Virginia.  His long and diligent study for the introduction thereto, resulted in the discovery of so much new and important matter relative to Hariot and Raleigh, that it became necessary to embody it in the present separate volume, as the maximum dimensions contemplated for the introduction to each work had been exceeded tenfold or more.

Owing to Mr. Stevens’s failing health, the cares of his business, and the continual discovery of fresh material, it was not till 1885 that his investigations were completed, although many sheets of the book had been printed off from time to time as he progressed.  The whole of the text was actually printed off during his lifetime, but unfortunately he did not live to witness the publication of his work, perhaps the most historically important of any of his writings.  Publication has since been delayed for reasons explained hereinafter.

On the death of my father, on February 28, 1886, I found myself appointed his literary executor, and I have since devoted much time to the arrangement, completion, and publication of his various unfinished works, seeking the help of competent editors where necessary.