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North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
The collection includes approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts – all in electronic format for the first time. The material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and much of it is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, a wide range of ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries aims to cover all published material and as much unpublished material as copyright and cost allow. The contents have been selected from the leading bibliographies (Joyce Goodfriend; Arksey, Pries, and Reed; and others), and numerous other sources.