Month: February 2019

Front facade of Houghton Library

Accessing Archives in the 19th-Century Atlantic World

By Derek Kane O’Leary I have everywhere found Archivists the least competent of human beings to judge of the character or value of historical papers; and if I had not been favored with the aid of higher powers, both in Paris and London, my enquiries would have been to little purpose. There Archivists look upon…