This bibliography includes records for books published after 1922. Use the following tools to find additional collections in different formats (e.g., in a periodical) or that were published before 1923.

Published Collections

America: History & Life [online]. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, Inc., 1998- . This database is particularly useful for finding letters and diaries that have appeared in history journals. Use the "Time Periods" option in the advanced search.

Goodfriend, Joyce D. The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. G.K. Hall women's studies publications. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall, 1987. Goodfriend provides rich annotations of periodical articles and books.

Google Book Search will eventually have content from most of the published diary and letter collections that were published before 1923.

NetLibrary. Researchers should check at their local library to determine if they have access to this valuable collection of electronic books. Many of the books that are listed in American Women's Letters and Diaries: A Bibliography are part of the NetLibrary collection.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries. Alexandria, Va.: Alexander Street Press, 2001- . Overview from the publisher
The collection includes more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The advanced search allows one to limit a search to over 20 possible fields (e.g., age when writing, marital status, religion, occupation, etc.).

Archival Collections

Additional Women's Collections [online]. San Antonio: Archives for Research on Women and Gender, University of Texas--San Antonio, [1996- ].
Annotated links to repositories, organized by state.

Archives USA [online]. [Ann Arbor] : ProQuest Information and Learning Co., 2001- . Access to holdings and contact information of more than 5,480 repositories.

Hinding, Andrea, ed. Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1979. 2 vols.
The definitive guide in the field, Women's History Sources provides brief but informative descriptions of over 18,000 collections in almost 1,600 repositories throughout the United States.

RLIN AMC File
500,000 records of archival & manuscript collections in libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies.

WorldCat [online]. [Dublin, Ohio] : OCLC 1997- .
Bibliographic descriptions and cataloging information for books, manuscripts, and other types of sources. Researchers can limit searches to "Archival Materials" on the advanced and expert search screens.