This archive uses XTF to index bibliographical and primary-document materials.

The bibliographical materials consist of Brown's primary works along with several thousand secondary citations that are regularly updated. However, there are various degrees of certainty associated with Brown’s texts in the archive, and the number of texts in the database is subject to some fluctuation as textual authorship is determined. We currently designate each text as either “A” (Brown’s authorship is certain) or “B” (Brown’s authorship is likely but not certain), based on the weight of external and internal textual evidence.

To date, 734 TEI P5-encoded full-text documents have been transcribed and coded with a high degree of accuracy; however, they have not been proofread against the originals, so users are cautioned to check original texts before quoting for publication. Complete full-text access to Brown’s novels, periodical writings, and other publications is under development.

• Electronic Text Images

                             

Current archival text images are illustrative only, and have been generously provided by The Library Company of Philadelphia and the University of Virginia Library.

*Special note: On November 30th, 2005, Special Collections at the University of Virginia, based on legal concerns, removed from its collection photographs of a number of manuscript Brown documents that it had received years earlier from manuscript dealers. The University of Virginia never owned the documents, but possessed photographs that dealers had used to interest the library in purchasing them. The documents have passed into private collections where they are unlocatable and the photographs were thus the only public and locatable record of them. In our archive, we have preserved reproductions made from photocopies that document these items which, prior to 2005, were part of the Charles Brockden Brown collection at the Clifton Walker Barrett Library. For more information, please see the University of Virginia collection page, containing the removal notice, the pre-2005 catalog list, and 38 scanned reproductions from the collection.