B. F. STEVENS'S GREAT WORK,
A memoir of B. F. Stevens will/short- { ly be published in connection -with ' the issue of his great work, tho "Catalogue Ind«x of Manuscripts in the Archives of England, Franco,' Holland, and Spain, Relating to America, 17*3 to 1783/' The iiiuil page* of the introduction wcro fin- 1 ishod just before tho writer died. The work may well bo termed stupendous, from the labour and research necessary ■to complete 180 tlirk foolscap folio volumes with tho numbered references to this period of twenty years. Nearly the whole of the limited edition is in clear manuscript, rendered in facsimile by the photographic process. Tho memoir •of Mr. Stevens, compiled by one of his old- - «*t friends, will «,ppc»r in two forms in folio, bound up with hi* own introduction to the great index, and in octavo, a» a >eparnrt« work. — London Athenaeum.
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Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 97, 25 April 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)
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146B. F. STEVENS'S GREAT WORK, Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 97, 25 April 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)
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