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North American Women's Letters and Diaries  includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.   Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.

The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an		   extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. 

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