I frequently consult Cappon and Duff's Virginia Gazette index for the period 1738-1780 on the Rockefeller Library pages of the Colonial Williamsburg website - where one can call up a splendid digital image of any page to which the index has a citation. It is a wonderful resource, recently improved to facilitate moving from one page to another within each four-page issue of any given week's Gazette. Cappon and Duff's Index (and I presume the CW digital files) was based on the extant issues of the Virginia Gazette that were microfilmed some decades ago. There are many gaps in the file of extant issues, reflecting weekly issues of the Gazette that were not then known to exist. For example, based on a letter to the editor William Rind in mid February 1768, I would love to see a copy of the January 28, 1768, issue of Rind's Virginia Gazette, but it is not one that Cappon and Duff indexed or that the CW website provides. In the decades since Cappon and Duff did their index, I presume that additional copies of the Gazettes may have been found in various libraries. From time to time I've also heard about newspaper projects in various states. Has anyone compiled a fresh and up-to-date listing of extant issues of the 18th-century Virginia Gazettes? Has anything been done to up-date the microfilm by adding formerly inaccessible issues that may have been located in recent decades? Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial 1250 Red Hill Road Brookneal, Virginia 24528 www.redhill.org Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html