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The author is grateful to the following institutions for their returns to the questionnaire, and to the individuals listed below who have been generous with their time in answering many points of detail either by correspondence or in person.
Institutions
AUSTRALIA: Australian Archives; Archives Office of New South Wales
BARBADOS: Department of Archives
CANADA: National Archives; Archives of Ontario
CHINA: State Archives Bureau
FRANCE: Direction des Archives; Centre des Archives Contemporaines, Fontainebleau
HUNGARY: Müvelödčsi Minisztčrium, Levčltŕri Osztŕly
INDIA: National Archives
INDONESIA: Arsip Nasional
ITALY: Ufficio Centrale per i Beni Archivistici
MALAYSIA: National Archives
NETHERLANDS: Algemeen Rijksarchief; Utrecht: Gemeentearchief
NEW ZEALAND: National Archives
NORWAY: Riksarkivet
SINGAPORE: National Archives
SOVIET UNION: General Direction of Archives
SRI LANKA: National Archives
SWEDEN: Riksarkivet
SWITZERLAND: Bundesarchiv
UNITED KINGDOM: Public Record Office; British Library; Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (National Register of Archives)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: National Archives; National Historical Publications and Records Commission; Library of Congress; New York State Archives; North Carolina Division of Archives and History; The Genealogical Society of Utah
YUGOSLAVIA: Arhivski center za strokovno tehnicna vprasanja
ZIMBABWE: National Archives
[No reply to the questionnaire was received from Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Mexico, Portugal or Spain. Negative returns were received from Cyprus, the Seychelles and Trinidad.]
Individuals
[United Kingdom]: Timothy Burnett, Andrew Buxton, Robert Chell, Chris Cooper, Adam Green, Len McDonald, Emma Quick, Joan Smith, Rachel Stockdale, David Sutton, John Walford, Christopher Williams, Christopher Woolgar.
Joan van Albada (Netherlands); Rosana de Andrés (Spain); Francis X Blouin jr (USA); Ghislain Brunel (France); Anne van Camp (USA); Michel Duchein (France); Pedro Gonzalez (Spain); Charles Kecskeméti (ICA); Mark Mbewe (Zambia); Dana J Pratt (USA); Nancy Sahli (USA); Chris Seifried (Canada); Hugo Stibbe (Canada); Sharon Thibodeau (USA); Victoria Irons Walsh (USA); Lisa Weber (USA); Habibah Yahaya (Malaysia).
Thanks are particularly due to the Commissioners of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts for allowing much of the research for this report to be undertaken, at short notice, within their official advisory programme for 1989-1990; to senior members of the Commission's staff, Sonia Anderson, James Parker and Brian Smith, as well as to Michael Cook (Liverpool University) and Michael Roper (Public Record Office), all of whom read the text in draft and made helpful comments for its improvement; and to Anne Breen who typed the copy for press.