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Re: A Description Dilemma
Would not removing them to a different collection be a total violation of the
principles of provenance and context?
Separating them and noting their availability would, I think, be preferable.
Are you certain they are genuine originals of the period and not a prankster's later
insertion?
Nick Gilliam
Darrell Beauchamp wrote:
> Ms. Goyette,
> Please don't pull them from the others. To do so would be criminal. Describe
> them using the PC terminology of today. Something like "unsigned
> documents/letters of a personal nature using sexually explicit and graphic
> language..." I know why the family kept them together, because they are part of
> the whole. And, if the National Civil War Museum doesn't want them, the Pearce
> Civil War Collection will be more than happy to take the entire package, or just
> the three, off your hands.
>
> Darrell Beauchamp
> Dean of Learning Resources and Special Collections
> The Pearce Civil War Collection
> Corsicana, TX
>
> Elayne Goyette wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I've been processing a large and, at times, quite personal family collection
> > at The National Civil War Museum, made up of 26 binders containing between
> > 75-99 documents each. The date range is 1826-1891 and covers the letters and
> > documents written by three generations. Family members have been, for lack
> > of a better term, housewives, elected officials, lawyers and merchants.
> >
> > Until now the documents contained in the first 18 binders have given me, and
> > will give our researchers, a fairly complete picture of life in rural
> > Virginia before, during and after the Civil War. Describing them has been
> > pretty straight forward...until now.
> >
> > Binder 19 contains three documents that I would describe as filthy, and none
> > of them are signed. I'm not just talking about the kind of filth that can be
> > removed by dry cleaning. Portions of the letters are sexually explicit and
> > not too kindly phrased. I don't know why the family has kept them for well
> > over 100 years!
> >
> > I've never come across stuff like this before and wonder whether any of you
> > have, and if you have, I'd really like to know how you've described them, for
> > describe them I must.
> >
> > All replies and advice would be gratefully accepted.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Elayne Goyette
> > YEGoyette@aol.com
> >
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> The Pearce Western Art Collection
> The Robert S. Reading Indian Artifact Collection
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