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    "ocrText": "15220 DuFief Drive\nGaithersburg, Maryland 20878\nDecember 2, 1992\nProfessor Mary Sies\nAdvanced Studies Office\nWinterthur Museum and Gardens\nWinterthur, Delaware 19735\nDear Mary,\nThank you for your letters and comments, sent November 23, 1992. And\nthank you for your margin comments on the second draft -- unlike my\nfirst mailing, it arrived on time and in good shape.\nIntroduction Based on your comments, it appears very necessary to\nachieve agreement on the introduction, and the overall purpose and\ndirection of the dissertation. I am therefore enclosing, for your\nreview and comment, a revised introduction. In this revised\nintrouction I have addressed your comments on specificity,\nperiodization, methodology and others. I look forward to hearing your\ncomments.\nUse of HABS Material What HABS did for the White House was to produce\nhigh quality measured drawings and photographs of the building, many\nof which are now restricted by the Secret Service. I intend to use\na small number of these drawings as illustrations to demonstrate what\nwas probably the finest stone work undertaken in the United States\nin the eighteenth century. At what time I had hopes of matching mason\nmarks to pay rolls. This has not been possible to date due to lack\nof access to masonic records. I have not captioned the illustrations\nyet but when I do I think they will add some depth to the written\nmaterial.\nUse of Original Material in Text I very much hear what you are saying\nabout using original material in the text. The reason that I do is\nthat it is so very unusual to find original records of building workers\nfrom the eighteenth and early nineteenth century that I hate to lose\nit and would like to include it in some form in the dissertation for\nfuture researchers. I would like to suggest moving most of that\nmaterial to footnotes. It would make some lengthy footnotes but\nwouldn't lose the material and make the text more accessible.\nReview of Scholarly Literature I will do this but I am not very\nhopeful. Yesterday, for example, I reviewed the 25 year index of\nTechnology and Culture and found nothing that I wasn't aware of. Some\nof the colonialists have some material of relevance, such as Carl\nLounsbury, and I will include some of his works. I'll also review\nthe recent issues of Labor History. But generally I think my subject\nis too late for the colonialists, not technological enough for the\ntechnologists and not organization enough for the labor historians.\nI look forward to your comments on the introduction.\nSincerely,\nRobert J. Kapsch"
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