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The website has a number of different ways to get to this collection. This one made the most sense to me. Assuming the link is not stable, so I went with breadcrumbs. Thanks in advance!
“Thomas Adams Smith Papers (C1029),” digital images, The State Historical Society of Missouri Digitized Collections (https://digital.shsmo.org/ : accessed 15 May 2026) > Westward Expansion of the United States > Thomas Adams Smith > volume 1, Letter book, March-September 1812 > images 102-03, letter of Smith to Capt. James Tate, 25 June 1812; The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center, Columbia.
spcchap, it took me about 25…
spcchap, it took me about 25 seconds to get to the letter by following your breadcrumb trail. Why did you doubt yourself?
Perhaps I am too much of a…
Perhaps I am too much of a perfectionist. The C1029 is the collection number, and I added it to the name of the collection. Feels like maybe it should have gone somewhere else. I also joined the website title to a particular section of the website (Digitized Collections) -- the other option was to start at the home page and have a longer breadcrumb trail.
Should I also have referenced the page numbers in the letter book, in addition to the image number?
And finally, when should I add the word 'citing' or 'crediting' to the source of the source?
I suppose, at the end of the day, the important part is getting someone quickly and accurately to my source - which I seem to have accomplished here. Sometimes I lean too much on science instead of art!