[Jude in WV]

I think these microfilms should be in the National archives. If so, it should be easy to compare them.

[Jude in WV]

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/ind/hi.html

[Fred Nerks]

I think these microfilms should be in the National archives. If so, it should be easy to compare them.

I am an Australian, I have no idea what you might keep/find in the 'National archives' - and where would 'they' be found?

[x]

Not the National Archives, which is for government documents. The Library of Congress has the microfilm for both papers. The Hawaii and California State Libraries, the University of Hawaii Library and New York Public Library have one or the other or both of the two main papers on microfilm. The Hawaiian State Archives has one in the original paper format.

There was a big controversy a few years back about libraries "deacessioning" (getting rid of) the big bound copies of the original papers that used to be such an important part of their collection, in favor of microfilm. Novelist and crank Nicholson Baker wrote articles and a book about the practice and saved many of the bound library volumes from the incinerator or landfill.

Keeping the original bound copies would make later forgeries harder, but articles like this one jump the gun. If someone is going to go to the trouble to write and make public an article like this, why not take the extra step of at least finding other copies of the microfilm -- if not the original paper -- before wasting everyone's time on wild speculation?