History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first colony never before printed

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Reprinted 1968. Early account based around transcriptions of extracts of documents held in the Library of Congress. Chapters include: 'Transactions during period of first charter'; 'The period of the second charter'; 'Last charter - the Bermudas, stage plays, lotteries, debate in Parliament'; 'Sir Thomas Dale'; 'Pocahontas and companions'; 'Rolfe's relation'; 'Argall's administration'; 'Leyden puritans'; 'Administration of Governor Yeardley'; 'The company under the directorship of Sir Edwin Sandys'; 'First year of Southampton's directorship'; 'Second year of Southampton's directorship'; 'Third year of Southampton's directorship'; 'The great massacre'; 'Waterhouse's relation, and list of slain'; 'Continuation of Earl of Southampton's directorship'; 'Dissolution of the company'