Dear HESers: Dr. G.E.A. Raspin, the archivist for the LSE, recently sent me some information about the archive that I requested permission to pass on to HES subscribers. Dr. Raspin wrote: We have just been funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to put all our catalogues on line and network the database via the Internet. There is a lot of preparatory work to do before this goes live to the world at large. However we are already able to do on-line searches in the office on 50%-60% of our collections and the machine readable proportion will increase quite fast as will the usability of our software. Practically all our summary collection descriptions are on line. ( Or rather if they are not on-line they have not yet been written.) I am happy to do searches for anyone who sends me an E-Mail message and will return the result as an Ascii file. In her response to my request to pass this on to the list, Dr. Raspin indicated that she would welcome requests, but wanted subscribers to remember that it will be awhile before all the catalogues are on-line. In the interim, they will handle requests by email, sent to the address [log in to unmask] The LSE archive houses the papers of many professors and directors of the LSE (Beveridge, Canaan, Tawney, etc.) as well as other collections (The Passfield papers of the Webbs, the economic/political/feminist papers of J.S. Mill/James Mill/Harriet Taylor, etc.). A list of the papers available will be included in the HES webpage on manuscript collections, coming soon to the Internet. Ross B. Emmett, Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta CANADA T4V 2R3 voice: (403) 679-1517 fax: (403) 679-1129 e-mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]