Letterbooks 1755-1799 released in February 1998. Other series will be released periodically through 1999. See notes on rights and restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection . Each database record describes a single item as described in the microfilm inventory. For the letter-books, each letter is an item.
All items have page-images.
Not all letters are available as transcribed text. The online presentation in American Memory does not use the SGML version of the The Writings of Washington directly. The SGML document was processed to extract each transcribed letter as a separate tagged record. These records are SGML-like, but not complete SGML document instances. The file of tagged records is merged with the database, indexed, and used to generate an HTML display on the fly.