Tyler wasn't a serious nomination, though I've long been interested in the idea of the debt modern scholarship owes to those mid-19th through early 20th century historian/collectors (pre-eminently Peter Force, but also Lyon Tyler, John Thomas Scharf, etc.) who gathered archival materials that otherwise would not have survived. Karen Stuart On 1/4/06, Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The instance of Lyon G. Tyler points out one of the arbitrary and > foolish aspects of trying to determine who in a given century was the > greatest or most important (or most loathesome): Tyler was president of > the College of William and Mary late in the nineteenth century, too, and > therefore laps over the artificial century barrier. That will be the > case again if we keep this up and wonder which century (if we must so > limit ourselves) Thomas Jefferson belongs to. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html