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North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950 <http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/nwld.htm>. Created and maintained by Stephen Rhind-Tutt. Reviewed Dec. 29–31, 2005.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950 (NAWLD) is a rich database consisting of 150,000 pages culled from the letters and diaries of 1,325 North American women. The collection was conceived of by Stephen Rhind-Tutt of the Alexander Street Press and produced by the press in collaboration with the University of Chicago. Rhind-Tutt explains in his introduction that the inspiration to construct an electronic archive of women's writings came to him while he was reading microfilmed manuscripts at the Library of Congress. Easier reading was Rhind-Tutt's starting point, but it was not all he had in mind. He wanted to set manuscripts in type, but he also wanted to build an archive of letters and diaries whose immediacy and drama fascinated him, even if they had been previously published. "Unlike memoirs," he thought, letters and diaries "present the raw moment without the distortions of hindsight." Letters and diaries have their own distortions, of course, but NAWLD is so easy to use that it should give every visitor ample time to find references and to assess a writer's interests and interpretative strategies.

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