Abstract
Abstract Completeness and context are particularly important when appraising collections of ephemera. The integrity of a collection as found should be recorded, if not preserved; any intrinsic or imposed order should be respected. The whole usually has more meaning than the sum of its parts-but care must be taken not to jettison some of the more subtle parts. Since we cannot wholly predict what meaning future scholars will read in what we have preserved, we must preserve as much, as carefully, with as much intelligence as we can.
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