Editor's Notes

In January 2006 my university secured the Digital Evans. After a month of playing with the search engine and surrendering to the allure of roaming instantly through the contents of two centuries' worth of early American imprints, I realized that the impact of the electronic archive might endanger the hard-won recognition that manuscript literature is as important as—if not more important than—print resources. Will the scholarship of the next decade again show a disproportionate attention to printed texts? Something to ponder.

The Society of Early Americanists (SEA) and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC) will hold a joint meeting on 7–10 June 2007 in Williamsburg, Virginia. The session titles that have been accepted for this conference are available at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mclark/SEA2007.html for those wishing to submit papers for possible inclusion in the program.

At the December 2006 Meeting of the MLA Division of American Literature to 1800 three persons were elected to the editorial board of Early American Literature: Professor Anne G. Myles of Northern Iowa University, Professor Phillip Round of the University of Iowa, and Professor Timothy Sweet of West Virginia University. At this juncture Michele Burnham and Hilary Wyss will be cycling off the board. For their stalwart and expert help over the past years, many thanks!