RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVES.

The article contends the digitization age has brought the demise of the scholar-adventure and the thrill of discovery amid dusty, uncatalogued manuscripts. The author recalls his first trip to the Huntington Library in California. The author also notes the first serious effort he made in scholarship in the late 1960s, an edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, "The History of Henry Esmond." The author claims there was adventure and zest to the apostolic touch with primary materials.