![]() ![]() Also consult the “Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts Catalogue-Revised” (1974), compiled by George Wilson Pierson. Pierson has updated this account in the “Bibliographical Note” of the abridged edition of his work, Tocqueville in America, 1959. “Appendix E: Bibliography” in George Wilson Pierson’s Tocqueville and Beaumont in America provides a good history of the Yale collection. But most important-from the viewpoint of this study-are Yale’s holdings of letters, travel notes, drafts, working manuscript, and other papers concerning the genesis and growth of the Democracy. The Yale collection-based on the premise that the lives of Tocqueville and Beaumont are inseparable-contains materials on the backgrounds, educations, and careers of both men, as well as numerous manuscripts relating to their joint endeavor, Du système pénitentiaire, and to Beaumont’s two books, Marie and L’Irelande. Allison, sustained and enlarged since the 1930s by the energies of George Wilson Pierson, and presently housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The largest collection of materials relating to the American experiences and writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont is the Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts Collection, begun by Paul Lambert White and J. Pierson (2nd edition) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). ![]() ![]() Democracy in America, Foreword by George W. ![]()
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