I've seen it available on CD-ROM in the $35-40 range at Hope Farm
(Saugerties, NY) - this was last year, check their web site at
http://www.hopefarm.com/. Also saw them in the gift at Fort Ticonderoga in
May of this year.

Bill Carr
Ballston Lake

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel H. Weiskotten" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:06 PM
Subject: NYCD & DHNY by O'Callaghan


> Since Chuck Lynch asked his question about the "Vermont Suffers" for which
> I referenced 500 pages of material in E.B. O'Callaghan's 1849-1851
> four-volume series _Documentary History of New York_ (aka DHNY), I am
> wondering about whether anyone has ever gone to the trouble, such as the
> folks at the Making of American, Lemoyne (Jesuit Relations), and other
> text-scanning projects, to get this fantastic source and the 15 volume
> series of O'Callaghan's _Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the
> State of New York_ (aka New York Colonial Documents or NYCD) onto the web
> where more people would be able to use them?
>         Having worked with these texts for years I would love to have them
more
> user friendly and more accessible.  I am very aware of the pitfalls of
> O'Callaghan's "editing" but they are still a resource unparalled.
>         Is anyone working on such a project, and if so, how do I find out
more
> about it?  If it is on-going or soon-to-be, I'd love to be involved in
some
> way! (sorry, but I must again do the apparently annual begging  for
gainful
> employment).
>
>         Here's a few links to illustrate what I mean:
>
>         http://vc.lemoyne.edu/relations/
>         http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
>         http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/%7Ematsuoka/AmeLit.html
>
>                 Dan W.
>
> don't forget:
> http://www.erols.com/weiskotten/resume.html
> http://www.erols.com/weiskotten/dansvita.html
>