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V4 2001 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 43, October 21, 2001, Article 8 ORDER IS IMPORTANT, TOO The same publication goes on to remind archivists that "the arrangement of historical materials is a historical fact. ... properly kept archives always store government records in the order in which the "office of origin" kept them. If possible, manuscripts should be kept the same way. ... some probably important historical information was lost forever when Dr. Joseph Felt reorganized the colonial papers of Massachusetts in the 1830's. Nowadays no one can tell for certain the origin of the various documents which he so carefully had bound into volumes. Consequently, no one can tell what official caused what document to be issued or secured. The well-meaning Dr. Felt was the author of one of the earliest works on American numismatics, "An Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency", published in 1839.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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