I suspect the following will be of interest to some of us.
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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>Date:         Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:04:11 EDT
>Subject:      Leisler Papers Collaborative
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>The Papers of Jacob Leisler Project, currently under the direction of Dr.
>David William Voorhees at New York University, has signed an agreement with
>Professor A. G. Roeber of the Department of History/Max Kade
>German-American Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University and
>Professor Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther of Georgia-Augusta University,
>Goettingen, Germany, to work as co-editors in a cooperative and
>collaborative effort to bring to completion the publication of the papers
>of Jacob Leisler in print and digitalized, photographic, or other media=
> forms.
>
>The proliferation of Leisler documents in German, French, Latin, Dutch, and
>English, as well as a paper trail that extends from the courts of the
>German states and the banking houses of Switzerland, Italy, and Holland to
>the slave pens of Cura=E7ao and Surinam and the tobacco plantations of the
>Chesapeake, not to mention North Africa and Sumatra in the East Indies, has
>made a rapid completion of the project beyond the ability of one person.
>It is hoped that a collaborative effort between the three editors and their
>respective research teams will more rapidly make these valuable documents
>accessible to scholars and the public.
>
>David William Voorhees
>Editor
>Papers of Jacob Leisler=20
>
>