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Adam Matthew Publications very recently produced a digital version of the
Ferrar Papers held at Magdalene College in the University of Cambridge.
These papers, which cover the period from c.1590 to c.1790, contain a great
deal of information on the early history of English colonization in Virginia
and Bermuda. Much of this early material has been transcribed by David
Ransome, probably for a supplement to S.M.Kingsbury's edition of the Virginia
Company Records but which has, alas, not found a publisher in a conventional
form. He is certainly to be thanked for his work which I found to be
extremely useful when viewing this digital edition on-line in the University of
Cambridge's Library last Wednesday afternoon. I was, however, struck by the
relative absence of correspondence from English people in the two colonies
- perhaps as a result of the examination of the Virginia and Bermuda
companies' records by the Commission that recommended the dissolution of the
former or as a consequence of deliberate weeding of the archive. Access to this
digital archive can be purchased for $15,000 (US) or £7,500 sterling,
prices which are likely to deter private individuals in my view.
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