The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 43, October 21, 2001, Article 8

ORDER IS IMPORTANT, TOO    

  The same publication goes on to remind archivists that   
  "the arrangement of historical materials is a historical fact.   
  ... properly kept archives always store government records   
  in the order in which the "office of origin" kept them.  If   
  possible, manuscripts should be kept the same way. ...   
  some probably important historical information was lost   
  forever when Dr. Joseph Felt reorganized the colonial 
  papers of Massachusetts in the 1830's.  Nowadays   
  no one can tell for certain the origin of the various   
  documents which he so carefully had bound into volumes.   
  Consequently, no one can tell what official caused what   
  document to be issued or secured.    

  The well-meaning Dr. Felt was the author of one of the   
  earliest works on American numismatics, "An Historical   
  Account of Massachusetts Currency", published in 1839.   

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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