----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Has anyone investigated the sources used by Thomas Jefferys in > compiling his "Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England...."? [....stuff deleted...] > If the sources used for the Jefferys map have not been > identified, is there any place in Britain where I might be able to track them > down other than the British Library and the Public Record Office? You could try the Bodleian Library in Oxford (Map Curator is Nick Millea, e-mail to [log in to unmask]); the National Library of Scotland (Diana Webster, [log in to unmask]); and here in Ireland, the map library at Trinity College, Dublin (Paul Fergusson, [log in to unmask]). There is now a Listserv set up principally for the UK and Ireland map library community. I am not a member myself, but gather that information about this may be obtained from Philip Guest ([log in to unmask]). I don't know any more than this - there was a short piece about it in the latest issue of Cartographiti, the newsletter of the Map Curators' Group of the British cartographic Society, along with a much longer list of e-mail addresses for map curators in Britain, Ireland, etc. I know that at least some of those listed therein are also on MAPS-L so maybe they can expand a bit on this? (Now that has put you all in the spotlight, hasn't it... bet you thought you would get away with a quiet life, too... :-) Darius Bartlett