The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley-- Robert Burns.

W. J. Barrow's pioneering research done in the old Virginia State
Library (now the Library of Virginia) into the causes of the
deterioration of paper was of the very first order of importance;
unfortuanately, the process that he devised for preserving paper was not
so good and had unanticipated ill consequences. There's a very fine
brief biography of Barrow in volume one of the Library of Virginia's
Dictionary of Virginia Biography.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Subject: [VA-HIST] New Blog Posts - Jefferson and Washington

You may have already heard that the Library of Virginia recently
received a Save America's Treasures Grant to preserve a collection of
Thomas Jefferson's gubernatorial papers. This week's post describes why
these papers need preservation now and how the entire story is connected
to a man named William J. Barrow in 1930s and 1940s Richmond. A second
post displays a capias writ from Frederick County meant for George
Washington. Perhaps readers familiar with Washington can provide
additional information about the circumstances it describes. See both
posts in the Out of the Box blog from our archivists at
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/

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