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Fifteen years ago, Griff started a project to locate, research and transcribe historical letters and diaries to ensure that they, and their contents, would survive. Through this work, more than 15,000 of these transcriptions have been made publicly available (for free) on the internet.

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Most of the documents remain in private collections and have never been published – except on Spared & Shared. Some were transcribed before being sold or put up for auction; their future whereabouts soon-to-be unknown but their contents transcribed and preserved – perhaps forever.

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He also recently co-edited, A Great and Good Man – Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln,  a book which relied heavily on letters which he had transcribed.

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Before retiring, William J. Griffing ("Griff") held positions at the Department of Labor and the Department of Energy, before serving as the ESH Director at both the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.