what leonard has done.
leonard wrote to merle jenson
and lind da duepaul editing the
first congress project and said
just not true.
and they had 2,000 documents.
when we finished the search we
had 10,000 documents.
most of course by northern
members of congress because
northerners tended to have more
interest in history and also
didn't suffer from mold or the
civil war.
leonard said you can't
understand -- and this was
julian boyd's great contribution
to documentary editing, you
cannot understand these letters
by these members of congress who
are writing back to somebody if
you don't know what that person
wrote to them.
so we have to include all of the
letters from constituents and
friends to members.
as i say, i did historical owe