Hello all! I just read the following at the UVA eText site (http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/ ) where Boyer & Nissenbaum's Salem Witchcraft Papers (SWP) are available: "A new transcription and chronological organization of the Salem Witchcraft Papers is currently in preparation by Professor Bernard Rosenthal of SUNY Binghamton, to be published by Cambridge University Press." Bernard Rosenthal is the author of "Salem Story: Reading the With Trials of 1692" (Cambridge, New York, 1993) -- a book I highly recommend. He does much to dispell the myths which have grown up around the events by going back and reading the original documents. It is available at Amazon.com if you haven't got it in your library already: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521558204 His project will not be finished for about five years, so don't hold your breath, but for those of us who have been frustrated about not owning a copy of SWP (despite its availability on-line) the promise of a new compilation is terrific news and well worth waiting for. Some new texts have surfaced since the 1977 release of the SWP, and there are apparently some errors in some of the texts which had been carried over from the work done with them in a WPA project of 1938, under the supervision of Archie N. Frost. Rosenthal and his team will be going back to the original manuscripts. B&N's SWP is helpful in giving chunks of info about individuals, but I think that Rosenthal's chronological organization will be very helpful for understanding the big picture. All the best of luck to this venture! Cheers, Margo (your list elf)