A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland

Published for the British Association for American Studies by the Oxford University Press (1961)hardback First edition gilt titles to blue cloth xxxvi, 667 pp, minor wear to dj and very slight fading to extreme top boards edge otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.This Guide gives the location of a great range of manuscripts concerned with important aspects of the historical connexions between Great Britain and the United States. Many of the manuscripts are described for the first time. All available printed sources and archives' lists were drawn upon ; many original discoveries were made also. . Prominent among the important materials described for the first time are many relating to business histories, the history of emigration to America, and the largely unexplored connexion between religious and reformist sects on both sides of the Atlantic - as well as papers relating to political, diplomatic, and military history.The work is a reflection of the increased interest in American history in British universities since the War. It should be an indispensable guide to British records for many historians, particularly American, and it opens up many new topics of research. It can also claim to be the first such stocktaking, finding-list, and act of deliberate discovery ever made in one subject through all classes of records on a truly national scale.".…