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Re: Help with an inidentifiable Va. history source
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Toni Carter <[log in to unmask]>
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    "Virginia Historical Collections," vol. 8, was published by the Virginia
Historical Society in 1889.  Volume 8 was an "Abstract of the Proceedings of the
Virginia Company of London, 1619-1624."

Toni Carter
Assistant Librarian
Virginia Historical Society

Peter Bergstrom wrote:

> Isn't this part of the series of documents published by the Virginia
> Historical Society in the 1880s?
>
> I can't recall offhand what might be in volume 8, but I know that this was
> the series that included the Dinwiddie papers and the Spotswood letters.  I
> believe it also included extended excerpts from the Records of the Virginia
> Company (LC - Jefferson Papers series (8) ) edited either by Brock or Conway
> Robinson.  There were other volumes as well.
>
> Peter V. Bergstrom, PhD
> Manager, Information Systems, Lighthouse Institute
> Archivist, Illinois Addiction Studies Archive
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Gaynor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, 06 August 2001 2:38 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Help with an inidentifiable Va. history source
>
> We've had a reference question asking us to identify a citation from vol.
> 32, p. 414 of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.  The citation
> is to "Va. Hist.
> Collections, vol. 8, p. 278."  We've not been able to identify the source
> referred to--it isn't the Calendar of Virginia State Papers, or the Virginia
> Historical Register and it
> isn't Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia . We're stumped.  I'm sure
> we're overlooking something painfully obvious. Any suggestions (to me at
> [log in to unmask])
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Edward Gaynor
> Special Collections
> Alderman Memorial Library
> P.O. Box 400110
> University of Virginia
> Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
> (434) 924-3138
> (434) 924-4968 fax
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