Présentation de l'éditeur
Washington can be written have nowhere been assembled in one collection, with any degree of completeness. The State Historical Society has done something, but the material it has gathered is not yet arranged so as to be readily available. The State University also has a considerable collection which it is steadily and very methodically increasing. The State Library has something. The shelves of theO regon Historical Society also hold much that is as valuable to the historian of Washington as ofO regon, and is equally at his disposal. It is to be regretted that theS tate government has not already made such provision as most otherS tates have made for collecting, arranging and preserving the materials for its history. The work can be done thoroughly and well at very moderate cost, once it is begun in a proper way. The greatest need will be for a competent secretary, whose heart will be in the work, who has already displayed some genius for it, and who has a wide acquaintance among the earlier settlers now living. There are in theS tate several private collections of historical material of value, and one of the best, if not certainly the best of these, was early placed at my disposal. Mr. Clarence B. Bagley of Seattle has been a most enterprising, patient and intelligent collector for many years past, and now has, in addition to the standard authorities, complete files of all the earlier, and most of the later, newspapers published in the territory and state, together with a mass of documents and manuscripts, that possibly at the present time could not be duplicated.
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