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Excerpt from Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1919, Vol. 2 of 2: The Austin Papers; Part 1
As a whole, the present compilation differs greatly from previous collections presented by the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Hundreds of letters are from inconspicuous persons, unknown to his tory, who exerted no ascertainable in¿uence upon the larger events of their time - men who merely lived and strove for the betterment of themselves and of their families. Many pieces illustrate minutiae of local administration too small, no doubt, to interest a great num ber of students; and others have only a biographical value. Taken together, however, they give a composite picture which the most careful selection could not equal in clearness, accuracy, or authori tativeness. This alone, perhaps, would be sufficient reason for de ciding against omitting any considerable part of the collection, but other reasons against doing so seemed imperative.
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