Be advised that the Leseur diary and the Waller diary are the *SAME* diary. Which one is the original I do not know, as I have never actually handled the documents, but I suspect it is the Waller diary.

Why someone would go to all that trouble beats me, but there are similar instances of plagiarism lurking in archive land. A few years ago I found two copies of the same Union diary, filed under two different names, in the Wisconsin State Historical Society. In that instance it was easy to spot the forgery as it was pristine and written in a "feminine hand."

As the cop used to say in Hill Street Blues, "Lets be careful out there."

William Shea