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23. James Oglethorpe to the Trustees, January 13, 1733, Phillipps Collection of Egmont Manuscripts,14200:13, University of Georgia Library, Athens (hereafter cited as Egmont MSS).24. Burton to Merriam, telegram, January 26, 1923, Charles E. Merriam Papers, University of ChicagoLibrary.31. Minutes of the Committee for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks, Pennsylvania AbolitionSociety, 1790–1803, Papers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Historical Society ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia (hereafter cited as Minutes, Pennsylvania Society).44. Memorandum by Alvin Johnson, 1937, file 36, Horace Kallen Papers, YIVO Institute, New York.45. Joseph Purcell, “A Map of the Southern Indian District of North America” [ca. 1772], MS 228, AyerCollection, Newberry Library, Chicago.For shortened notes, adapt the usual pattern of elements (see 16.4.1) to accommodate theavailable information and identify the document unambiguously.N: 46. R. S. Baker to House, November 1, 1919, House Papers.47. Minutes, April 15, 1795, Pennsylvania Society.If you cite only one document from a collection and it is critical to your argument orfrequently cited within your paper, you may choose to include it in your bibliography. Beginthe entry with the author's name; if a document has a title but no author, or the title is moreimportant than the author, list the title first.B: Dinkel, Joseph. Description of Louis Agassiz written at the request of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz.Agassiz Papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.If you cite multiple documents from a collection, list the collection as a whole in yourbibliography, under the name of the collection, the author(s) of the items in the collection, orthe depository. For similar types of unpublished material that have not been placed inarchives, replace information about the collection with such wording as “in the author'spossession” or “private collection,” and do not mention the location.B: Egmont Manuscripts. Phillipps Collection. University of Georgia Library, Athens.House, Edward M., Papers. Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Papers. Historical Society of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia.Strother, French, and Edward Lowry. Undated correspondence. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library,West Branch, IA.Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform Papers. Alice Belin du Pont files, Pierre S. duPont Papers. Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, Wilmington, DE.HOW TO FORMAT THE ELEMENTS. Here are some special formatting recommendations fordocuments in manuscript collections.Specific versus generic titles. Use quotation marks for specific titles of documents but notfor generic names such as report or minutes. Capitalize generic names of this kind only ifthey are part of a formal heading in the manuscript, not if they are merely descriptive.