Records of the Virginia Company of London - Complete

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The Records of
The Virginia Company of London
Volumes 1- 4
The Court Book, From the Manuscript
In the Library of Congress
Edited, With An Introduction and Bibliography
By Susan M. Kingsbury
Preface By
Herbert Levi Osgood
2,000+ pages, published 1906
- Bonus Book -
An Introduction To
The Records of
the Virginia Company of London
With a Bibliographical List of Extant Documents
By Susan M. Kingsbury
200+ pages, published 1905
- Bonus Book -
The London Company of Virginia
with Photogravures
published 1909, 121 pages illustrated, searchable
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The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London trace the
activities
of the English settlers who founded the Jamestown colony in
the Tidewater area of Chesapeake Bay. Dating from the early
seventeenth century, the records are the earliest manuscript
sources in the Library of Congress dealing with English settlements in
the New World. The ultimate success of the Jamestown colony led to the
establishment of the colony of Virginia, the largest and arguably the
most important colony in British North America, and for that reason the
records are a critical primary source for early American history.
The Virginia Records volumes were part of Jefferson's personal library. These volumes were very fragile
when Jefferson first collected them, can only be handled with the greatest care today, and are
generally not made available for researchers except in microfilm format
"In my report for 1901 I gave the reasons in favor of the printing by the Library of this and of similar unpublished manuscript records in its possession. It would save excessive wear and tear upon the originals; it would enable the texts to be studied by investigators who cannot come to Washington; and it would encourage that thorough, detailed, and continuing study of them which their value and interest
and a proper understanding of American history require. These reasons apply with peculiar force to the Records of the Virginia Company, unique in themselves and unique of their kind, and an additional one, in their case influential; that publication would make them available to persons who would not master the difficult chirography of the original.
"Their history is fully told in the Introduction by Miss Kingsbur}', and their importance as a document emphasized in the Preface by Professor Osgood. Previous efforts to secure their publication in extenso had not been successful. The present one originated in a proposal by Professor Osgood in behalf of the Public Archives Commission of the American Historical Association to edit them as a contribution to one of the Annual Reports of the Association; and although the work as issued is
an independent publication of the Library, it has had the benefit of his expert counsel.
"It was at his instance also that Miss Kingsbury, then a graduate student in his department at Columbia, began the undertaking which she has so well accomplished,and which has consisted (1) in a complete transcript of the text itself; (2) in a close stud}' not merely of this but of the numerous collateral and subsidiary documents both here and abroad; (3) in the preparation of the Introduction, Notes, ibliography,
and Index; and (i) in aid upon the proof. The proof has also, however, been read word for word with the original text, and revised by the Chief of the Division of Manuscripts, with the excellent assistance of Miss Minnie V. Stinson of that Division."
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress
I.
Character of the Virginia Company
II.
Records of the Company Under Sir Thomas Smythe
III.
The Collections of Documents, 1616-1624
IV.
Records of the Company Under the Sandys-Southampton Administration
V.
The Fate of the Original Records of the Company
VI.
Appendix – Bibliographical List of the Records
VII.
Authorities
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