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 >