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collection with such wording as “in the author's possession” or “private collection,” and donot mention the location. Do not include a date, since most collections contain items fromvarious dates.R: 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.To cite an individual document from such a collection in your text, identify the author anddate, the title or type of document, and the name of the collection or the depository used in thereference list entry. Separate the elements with commas. In many cases, you may be able toinclude some or all of this information in the text.P: (James Oglethorpe to the trustees, January 13, 1733, Egmont Manuscripts)In his letter of January 13, 1733, to the trustees (Egmont Manuscripts), James Oglethorpe declared . . .If you cite only one document from a collection, list it individually in your reference list,and follow the usual pattern for parenthetical citations.R: Dinkel, Joseph. 1869. Description of Louis Agassiz written at the request of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz.Agassiz Papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.P: (Dinkel 1869)HOW TO FORMAT THE ELEMENTS. Here are some special formatting recommendations fordocuments in manuscript collections.Specific versus generic titles. Give both specific titles and generic names such as reportor minutes in roman type, not enclosed in quotation marks or italicized. Capitalize genericnames of this kind only if they are part of a formal heading in the manuscript, not if theyare merely descriptive.Locating information. Although some manuscripts may include page numbers that can beincluded in parenthetical citations, many will have other types of locators, or none at all.Older manuscripts are usually numbered by signatures only or by folios (fol., fols.) ratherthan by page. Some manuscript collections have identifying series or file numbers that youcan include in a citation.Papers and manuscripts. In titles of manuscript collections the terms papers andmanuscripts are synonymous. Both are acceptable, as are the abbreviations MS and MSS(plural).Letters. To cite a letter in a parenthetical citation, start with the name of the letter writer,