Congratulations and applause to the Library for this signal 
achievement!   This is a unique publication, but it is on just such 
valuable, unglamorous, painstaking, and never-cost-effective scholarly 
projects that our future understanding of early Virginia depends.

Thanks for giving us a chance to learn about and celebrate a landmark 
achievement of the sort that too often goes unheralded outside a modest 
circle of specialists.

-- Jurretta

On Jul 5, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Kimberly, Maria (LVA) wrote:

> The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the publication of The
> Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677, edited by Dr. Warren M.
> Billings, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University
> of New Orleans and historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. This
> volume brings together the surviving papers of the most important man 
> in
> seventeenth-century Virginia. Sir William was Virginia's leading
> politician and planter throughout the years he lived in the colony.
> Disagreements between Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon over Indian policy
> ripened into Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, the most serious colonial
> challenge to English royal authority before the American Revolution.
> More Virginian than Cavalier, Sir William's like as governor would not
> be seen in the Old Dominion again.
>
>   This edition contains the largest body of original documents
> concerning any seventeenth-century Virginian. The volume also includes
> the surviving papers of Sir William's redoubtable wife, Frances 
> Culpeper
> Stephens Berkeley Ludwell, who over her life married three colonial
> governors.
>
> 731 pp., 3 b&w illus., 1 map, notes, index
>
> ISBN 978-0-88490-207-2, $59.95 cloth
>
>
>
> To order books contact:  The Virginia Shop, (804) 692-3524 /
> [log in to unmask] <blocked::mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Or order online at http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/shop.htm
>
>
>
>
> Maria Kimberly
> Project Editor
> Library of  Virginia
> 800 E. Broad St
> Richmond, VA 23219
> 804.692.3001
>