ABSTRACT
Thomas Hariots Briefe and true report has two aspects. It is the propagandist tract to discourage adverse rumours about Raleigh’s Virginia and to set out the facts which would encourage settlers to go there. 2 This governs its form and limits its contents. But it is also a record of the first colony, and it makes, with John White’s drawings, and the notes which Hariot wrote to accompany those which Theodor de Bry engraved, a most valuable and intimate record of the doings of that colony. The presenting of Hariots texts with some account of White’s drawings is intended to provide, so far as is possible in print, a full record of a great collaboration, but it is no substitute for reading the texts and notes alongside the drawings and engravings themselves. 3
