More infor on primary source documentation

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Manuscripts

an entire collection

National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Southwest Region. US District Court Records, Southern District of California. Record Group 21, Criminal Case # 1323.
Franklin and Marshall College, Archives and Special Collections. Reynolds Family Papers. MS Group 06, Series X.

Unpublished typescript:
Brubaker, John. Hullabaloo Nevonia. ts. MSS 29. Franklin and Marshall College, Archives and Special Collections, Lancaster PA.

Unpublished manuscript:
Smith, John. Diary. ms. Record Group 12/05/02. Franklin and Marshall College, Archives and Special Collections, Lancaster, PA.

Unpublished letter:
Reynolds, John F. Letter to Cate Reynolds. 2 September 1861. Reynolds Family Papers. Franklin and Marshall College, Archives and Special Collections, Lancaster, PA.

Published letter:
Reynolds, William. "To Lydia Reynolds." 2 June 1839. Letter 8 of Voyage to the Southern Ocean Ed. Ann Hoffman Cleaver and Jeffrey Stann. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. 68-69.

Government Publications
Congressional Record Vol LV, Part 4 (65th Congress) Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917.

Books published before 1900
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects . Philadelphia, 1794.

Newspaper Articles
"Convention Ratifies Constitution." Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser 14 December, 1787, p. 1.,col 3.
Bernstein, Carl . " Watergate Break-in Linked to President. " Washington Post 23 May, 1974, p. 1, col 6.