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THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Editor of the Journal: Professor P. Collins, McGill University, Montreal 2
June 6, 1967
Mr. Earle W. Newton,
Executive Director,
St. Augustine Historical Restoration
and Preservation Commission, Box 1987
St. Augustine, Florida 32084
U.S.A.
Dear Mr. Newton,
I am most distressed to learn from your letter of May 31st
that correspondence sent by you to me last January never reached
its destination.
An article of the kind you describe sounds ideal material
for the SAH Journal. I should be glad to receive your manu-
script with its relevant illustrations at your earliest conven-
ience and enclose the "Notes for Contributors" prepared by our
compositors.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
Peter Collins,
Professor of Architecture
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Enclosure
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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Editor: Professor Peter Collins, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal 2, Canada
Notes for Contributors
(adapted from the Handbook of Style of The Stinehour Press)
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Society of Architectural Historians should be typewritten on
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side and of at least I" on the other three sides. In the upper
right corner of each page should appear the author's last
name and the page number. Extensive afterthoughts or
alterations in manuscript should be typed on separate sheets
of paper and inserted after the pertinent page.
Legends for plates must be typed on a separate page and
composed in a short form, e.g,:
Fig. I. Chartres, Cathedral, west portal (from Kidson, Sculpture of
Chartres).
Fig. 2. Boston, Public Library, exterior (photo: Andrews).
Fig. 3. London, Bank of England, drawing of cornice (after Sum-
merson, Georgian London).
Fig. 4. Bramante, plan of St. Peter's (after Durm, Baukunst der Ren-
aissance in Italicn).
Illustrations can best be made from original negatives, or
clear photographs where negatives are not available. Illus-
trations should be submitted with manuscripts. If the illus-
trations are taken from books, complete book references
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propriate figure number with a soft pencil on the reverse
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sor Hartshorn"; "David Toll," but "Dr. Toll"; "Robert C.
Foote," but "Mr. Foote."
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lowing the text. Footnote references in the text should be
consecutive superior numbers. placed after the mark of
punctuation. Footnotes should conform to the manner
shown overleaf:
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STANDARD METHOD OF INDICATING
FOOTNOTE REFERENCES
PUBLISHED BOOKS
First reference:
7. Ray Nash, Printing as an Art (Cambridge, Mass., 1955), Pp.
35-69.
Subsequent reference:
23. Nash, Printing as an Art, pp. 35-69.
First reference:
4. Theodore Low De Vinne, Correct Composition (New York,
1904), pp. 171-181.
Subsequent reference:
12. De Vinne, Correction Composition, pp. x71-181.
First reference:
93. D. B. Updike, Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use,
2nd ed., 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), 1, 38-57.
Subsequent reference:
117. Updike, Printing Types, I, 38-57.
First reference:
2. The Poetical Works of Chaucer, ed. F. N. Robinson (Cambridge,
Mass., 1933), p. 2.
Subsequent reference:
3. Chaucer, p. 2.
The name of the publisher is usually superfluous, but if bib-
liographical reasons demand it, it should appear thus:
First reference:
8. Edith Diehl, Bookbinding, Its Background and Technique, 2 vols.
(New York, Toronto: Rinehart, 1946), n, 51.
Subsequent reference:,
76. Diehl, Bookbinding, n, 51.
ARTICLES
First reference:
i. Sinclair Hitchings, "The Printing of Poetry," Printing and
Graphic Arts n1 (1954), 37.
Subsequent reference:
13. Hitchings, "The Printing of Poetry," p. 37.
Always repeat page numbers in full: pp. 126-129, not pp.
126-9.
Information on the further intricacies of footnoting is
well presented in The MLA Style Sheet, rev. ed. (obtainable
from the Treasurer, Modem Language Association, 4
Washington Place, New York, N. Y. 10003), whose style
the author may follow when it does not conflict with the
rules set forth above.
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May 31, 1967
Professor Peter Collins, Editor
Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Dear Professor Collins:
I am enclosing a copy of my letter of January 23rd, 1967, in
case it went astray and did not reach you. I would only like to
know whether the magazine would be interested in reviewing such
an article; of course there is naturally no acceptance implied until
you have seen it.
If not, I should like to submit it elsewhere.
Cordially,
Earle W. Newton
Executive Director
EWN/mr
End.
January 23, 1967
Reply to:
Box 1987
St. Augustine, Fla.
Professor Peter Collins, Editor
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Dear Professor Collins:
Today we received and recorded a deed from the United States Government
to the State of Florida for "government House", a colonial structure in
St. Augustine which dates back to the early days of the Spaniards in this
oldest city in the Unit4d States. It has had a checkered history, and has
been expanded and altered three or four times as it passed from Spanish
into English into Spanish and then into American hands. One of the
architects who undertook the work of remodeling the building for the Ameri-
cans in 1833 was Robert Mills, then at the height of his career.
At our request, General Services Administration, before transferring
the building, undertook an extensive survey of its evolution, particularly
in the American period, in the National Archives and other sources.
Discovered were the Mills plans, as well as those of an extensive remodel-
ing in 1873. We do not have the original building plans; we are still search-
ing for them in Spain. I found in the Archives of the Indies and the Servicio
Historico Militare plans for the Cathedral and the Spanish Military Head-
quarters, and we have had plans of the Auditors' and Customs House for
some time. We feel confident that the plans of the governor'ss Mansion"
exists somewhere in the Spanish archives.
But we do have extensive materials on the colonial period, including an
extensive tax appraisal and description of the building in 1763, and a water
color sketch of it at that time, as well as other illustrations of it at sub-
sequent periods of its career.
It is possible that this building--Florida's first capitol--has had the longest
continuous service as a center of government of any building in the United
States. d
Professor Peter Collins
January 23, 1967
Pdage two
I wonder if the architectural history of this building might not make a
good article for the JOURNAL?
I expect to be in New York City February 15 for a meeting of this
Institute at the Hispanic Museum, and expect to go to Columbia to
talk with Dr. Branner. I could bring along some of the architectural
drawings and materials and discuss this possibility.
Cordially,
Earle W. Newton'
President
EWN/mr
Encl: (Under separate cover)
New brochure
Old brochure
Restoration memo
Antiguo folder -- enclosed
Reconstruction memo
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W Bob S.
The enclosed correspondence was
recently brought to my attention for sore
action. Do you think we can do anything
with this or not????? It seems to be in
your line rather than mine except possibly
for re-writing.....
Bob J.
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