Dear Helen, The WPA (Works Progress Administration) did the transcribing from the original manuscripts. The sources they used were the surviving original documents available to them, and they did it from scratch without reprinting previous transcriptions. My best guess, however, is that they probably used printed texts as copy texts, a standard way of transcribing manuscripts. That is, one compares the manuscript to a printed edition and finds discrepanicies and makes the corrections for the new edition. Richard Trask used this method in his excellent transcription of the March events (The Devil Hath Been Raised)--if you get this, be sure to get the updated 1997 edition. The original manuscripts are housed in more than one place, but the biggest single collection by far is at the Peabody Essex in Salem. The holdings there are available on microfilm for about $100, but one has to order them--takes at least a few weeks. If you are interested in that, contact William LaMoy there. I'm not used to the term "LDS," so you might want to send me a translation. But if it refers to the microfilm holdings there, then I think I have answered you on that point. If not, let me know. Other documents are scattered in other libraries. Regarding new material since Boyer and Nissenbaum published the WPA transcriptions along with some additional documents, the largest selection appears in Trask's book (1997). At the end of my book, "Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692," there is a letter from Governor Phips that had been previously unpublished. Mary Beth Norton, a history professor at Cornell, who is writing a book on the trials, has found some previously unpublished manuscripts at the Mass. Hist. Soc. I don't yet know whether she will cite these in her book, but she has given me copies and they will appear in the new edition I am editing with a group of others to be published by Cambridge. Because of the complexity of the project, it will be four to five years before this edition comes into print. If you can't wait, you can go to the Mass. Hist. Soc. to look at their collection, although I would write first to be sure that they will make them available. If I have missed picking up anything you were asking about, please let me know. Best wishes, Bernie