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work_zxiop7hzvvbk3pg5uha447xlmu	Murphy Smith	Preparing a Manuscripts Guide for a Learned Society	1962	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3614	327	63	Bell, Jr., associatelibrarian of the American Philosophical Society Library,and I embarked on the project of preparing a guide for the • T h e author is manuscripts librarian of the Library of the American Philosophical Society, 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia 6, Pa. His paper was read before volume 1 of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held in Philadelphia, For Promoting Useful Knowledge (Philadelphia, William and Thomas Bradford, 1771). library so that a special committee was formed "to collect information respecting the past and present state of this country," for One of the major fields of the library, stemming from the interest of such men as Thomas Jefferson and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, is its collection of manuscripts relating to the American 6 "Report of the Special Committee on the Future Policy of the Library," in American Philosophical Society, Year Book, 1941, p. 7 The American Philosophical Society Library Bulletin was published for 17 years,	./cache/work_zxiop7hzvvbk3pg5uha447xlmu.pdf	./txt/work_zxiop7hzvvbk3pg5uha447xlmu.txt