This CD-Rom contains a single PDF file which includes two volumes: "The Life and Correspondence of Charles Carroll of Carrollton" by Kate Mason Rowland. A brief biography of Charles Carroll written by David Barton is included in addition to the content of the two volumes by Rowland. In the format of this CD, the page numbers and volume numbers in this electronic format correspond exactly to the page numbers and volume numbers of the original printed format. PDF files are opened using the Adobe Reader, included on this CD-Rom. You may search for words in these files using the Edit, Find command in the Adobe Reader menu. Adobe Reader 5.0 system requirements WINDOWS (Reader install program included) *Intel Pentium processor *Microsoft Windows 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5, Windows 2000, or Windows XP *64MB of RAM *24MB of available hard-disk space PC users may install Adobe Reader by clicking on "Install PC Reader," found in the "PC" folder in the "Adobe Reader" folder, or Reader may be downloaded for free from the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Adobe Reader 5.0 system requirements Macintosh (requires download) *PowerPC® processor *Mac OS software version 8.6(*), 9.0.4, 9.1, or Mac OS X(*) *64MB of RAM *24MB of available hard-disk space Mac users may download Adobe Reader for free from the Adobe website. This can be accomplished in two ways: 1)click on the "Adobe Reader" folder and then "Installer Mac" in the "Mac" folder; this will unstuff the Mac version of the Adobe Reader download program. Click on the unstuffed installer to begin downloading (requires internet connection) or 2) simply access the adobe website to download the installer program from there (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)