(1) Huzzah for digitizing this important set of documents.
(2) Bummer for charging $15,000. That is inexecusable. Ordinary mortals
will not have any way to get access to that.
When is some champaion going to come forth and lead us to a Promised Land of
Information. Hmmmmm Maybe Google has already done it, and raised the ire
of the Protectionists.
Randy Cabell
Digital Heritage of Virginia
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From: "Christopher Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 2:28 AM
Subject: [VA-HIST] The digital version of the Ferrar Papers
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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