Word: archiviste
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Visiting the archives may be something of an act of national piety. It is also absolutely fascinating, especially now. Archivist of the U.S. James Rhoads has just opened an exhibit called "Milestone Documents of American History." From every corner of his 21-story attic, Rhoads has assembled and put on view priceless originals: the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803; the Homestead Act of 1862, which opened the West; the Monroe Doctrine (actually two widely spaced references in President James Monroe's 1823 annual message); the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; patents for Eli Whitney's cotton...
...other charges are open to serious question. As for the specific charge that Carter used certain television commercials during the 1970 Georgia campaign to attack his opponent's financial integrity. Carter insists that no such commercials exist. And though the article contains direct quotes from a "veteran archivist," Carroll Hart, director of the state archives department, said that the archives staff failed "to recognize their words or statements in [the Harper's] article." A dozen other points in the piece are challenged by sources in Georgia and elsewhere...
...archivist, Boris Ivanovitch Kaptelov, said yesterday he intends to request copies of the Leon Trotsky papers, as well as other papers, from Houghton Library. Kaptelov placed a request Friday for photocopies of several manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library...
...Peter Townshend (whose stepson he had tutored), that he no longer needed the heavy subsidy that Townshend had been paying him in order to get by. More important than the money were the plaudits of his fellow intellectuals. It was already possible to say, as the British writer and archivist James Bonar did in 1894, that The Wealth of Nations had "probably secured its author as near an approach to immortality as can fall to any economic writer...
...Dadd's tormented self-examinations and still belong to Bethlem Hospital. Almost all his known work is at the Tate, and it acquaints us with the most tragically fated and one of the most brilliant talents in all English 19th century art. As Patricia Allderidge, Bethlem's archivist, remarks in her scrupulous and absorbing catalogue: "One did not have to be mad to escape the toils of Victorian genre-but it probably helped...