The Library of Congress' s Rare Book & Special Collections Division has released a new digital collection, The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, available on the Library's Global Gateway
Web site at: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/drakehtml/. The Kraus Collection comprises important primary and secondary materials about Drake's voyages throughout the then Spanish territory of the Americas. It consists of 60 items--16 manuscripts, 29 books, 8 maps and views, and 7 medals and portraits. The materials range in date from 1579 to 1765. Texts are in English, Latin, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and French.