Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library
For the historical scholar, especially of American and British history, there is a wonderful array of source material in the Manuscript Division. It is in this respect that the Library is a natural Mecca for those who are en gaged in constructive historical writmg. Thousands of the manuscripts of the smaller groups are filed' alphabetically by names of the writers or, if official papers, under the places in which they originated, in manila folders, arranged in cartons, in a series of.miscellaneous Papers. The principal historical manuscripts, either volumes or files, are revealed in the. Group list published in the Bulletin, in 1901, and in the supplementary list, to 1914, in elusive, now presented at the end of this article. N o attempt 15 made, there fore, to repeat this information in detail in the narrative. The following digest of the main collections from which the composite body has been derived, may suffice to indicate in a limited space the character and diversity of the materials.
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