COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
The bookseller's description of the collection (available at the
Reference Desk), written in French and replete with representative extracts
from documents and correspondence, forms the core of the guide. The
bookseller's description treats the material as falling into three broad
series: general manuscripts and documents dating from the whole of La Forte's
career; correspondence from 1786 to 1793; and correspondence from
An II (1793/1794) to An V (1796/1797). The two correspondence series are
further divided into groups, usually according to the type of correspondent
(eg, correspondence from instructors, from the Comite de
Salut Public , etc.), and less frequently according to the particular
issue or project they address (eg, the construction of a powder mill).
