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17.1.9 Letters and Other Communications in Published CollectionsYou may cite specific parts of books that collect letters, memoranda, and othercommunications because a specific reference provides information not included in a wholebook citation, such as the date and participants for an individual communication. (Forunpublished personal communications, see 17.6.3; for unpublished letters in manuscriptcollections, see 17.6.4.)To cite such an item, give the names of the sender and recipient, followed by a date and (ifavailable and relevant) the place where the communication was prepared. The word letter isunnecessary, but label other forms, such as a report or memorandum. Give the title and otherdata for the collection in the usual form for an edited book. Notice the form for a shortenednote, which differs from the usual pattern of elements.N: 1. Adams to Charles Milnes Gaskell, London, March 30, 1896, in Letters of Henry Adams, 1858–1891, ed.Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), 141.2. Adams to Gaskell, 142.5. EBW to Harold Ross, memorandum, May 2, 1946, in Letters of E. B. White, ed. Dorothy Lobrano Guth(New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 273.B: Jackson, Paulina. Paulina Jackson to John Pepys Junior, October 3, 1676. In The Letters of SamuelPepys and His Family Circle, edited by Helen Truesdell Heath, no. 42. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.If you cite several letters or other communications from a single book in your notes, list justthe book rather than the individual pieces in your bibliography.B: Churchill, Winston, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1953–1955, edited by Peter G. Boyle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.17.1.10 Online and Other Electronic BooksFor online books, follow the guidelines for print books. In addition to the usual elements,include the URL and the date you accessed the material (see 15.4.1, 17.1.7). Note that a URLalone is not sufficient; you must provide the full facts of publication, as far as they can bedetermined, so that a reader can search for the source even if the URL changes. If pagenumbers are not available, you may identify the location of a cited passage in a note byadding a descriptive locator (such as a preceding subheading) following the word underbefore the URL and access date.N: 1. Julian Samora and Patricia Vandel Simon, A History of the Mexican-American People, rev. ed. (EastLansing, MI: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, 2000), under “Civil War inMexico,” http://www.jsri msu.edu/museum/pubs/MexAmHist/chapter14.html#six (accessed December 19,2005).B: Samora, Julian, and Patricia Vandel Simon. A History of the Mexican-American People. Rev. ed. EastLansing, MI: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, 2000.http://www.jsri.msu.edu/museum/pubs/MexAmHist/chapter14.html#six (accessed December 19, 2005).When you cite books published in other electronic formats, such as those available for