These are fantastic, I have visited the site and already making copies for my own files, I will make issue No-1, February 1947, available to all CSNA Exc. Board Members, thank-you and Newman Numismatics for the fine job, you both have exceeded my dreams on how this project would turn out.

Thank you so very much for seeing this through. Please thank the NNP, the university, and Eric Newman for myself and PAN. It is our recommendation that all numismatic organizations allow their content to become available through the NNP.

For some time now I have threatened to send you a message about the Newman Portal. In the June 1, 2004, John J. Ford, Jr. library auction sale, the Private Letter Copy Book of C.G. Memminger was sold. It was stated that the letters covered Memminger’s activities from his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury until the outbreak of war. It was stated that many of the letters were of great numismatic interest. None of the contents of any letter was revealed since that would diminish the value of the book, or so the auction company said.

I am convinced that the details of the Confederate cent is out there somewhere buried in a book in someone's collection. I understand the concerns about ownership of printed material, but making old books and newspapers available on the Internet is great! If you want to learn about the Civil War then you go to Documenting the South, a digital library at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. They have hundreds of rare and out-of-print diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and government records available on-line for reading and research. Future numismatic researchers will have a much easier time finding those little tidbits that really tell the story.

I am able to research my mother's people because of the St. Petersburg, Fla. newspapers being digitized and on the Internet. They were "sand merchants" (Realtors) in Pinellas County back in the 1920s. I have learned that the Treasure Island Causeway was supposed to have been named: Donovan Causeway. My GGrandfather E.A. Donovan did all of the negotiations with landowners, city, state, and federal departments to get the construction approved, but the Crash of '29 ended it all.

A resounding Thank You to Eric Newman for placing rare documents at the fingertips of lowly folks like myself.