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No. 90A. ANDREWS, CHARLES M. Guide to the Materials for American History, to 

 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain. Octavo, 2 vols. 



Vol. 1. The State Papers, xi+346 pages. Published 1912. Price $2.50. 



Vol. II. Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers, vm+427 pages. Pub. 1914. 



Price $3.00. 



Of all archives in Europe the Public Record Office in London contains by far 

 the greatest quantity of material for the history of the United States, and par- 

 ticularly for the period before 1783. For many subjects in the history of the colo- 

 nial and revolutionary periods, indeed, there is much more unprinted manuscript 

 in that one repository than in America itself. 



Volume I, in its introduction, gives a history and description of the Public 

 Record Office, its rules and regulations, and statements respecting such of its pub- 

 lications as are useful to American inquirers. The contents of the archive are 

 classified in two grand divisions, the one that of State papers, the other that of 

 Departmental and Miscellaneous Records. Of these, it is the State Papers which 

 are treated in the present volume. After an historical introduction upon the Sec- 

 retary of State and his duties and upon the State Papers Office, the various series 

 of State Papers Foreign, State Papers Domestic, Home Office Papers, State Papers 

 Miscellaneous, State Papers Colonial, and Colonial Office Papers are described, 

 with full presentation of details. These are most abundant in the section devoted 

 to the Colonial Office Papers. The reclassification of the Colonial Office Papers has 

 so completely made obsolete all previous descriptions that Professor Andrews's 

 minute description of them in their present order of arrangement must be of the 

 greatest utility to all students of American colonial history. 



Volume II presents a detailed description, volume by volume, of the divisions 

 of the Public Record Office known as Departmental Records and Miscellaneous. 

 The Departmental Records comprise the papers of the Admiralty, the Audit Office 

 (including the Declared Accounts), and the Lord Chamberlain's Department, the 

 Commissariat, tKe Custom House, the Treasury, and the War Office. The Mis- 

 cellaneous section embraces the records of the High Court of Admiralty, the Man- 

 chester, Cornwallis, Shaftesbury, Rodney, and Chatham papers, and those of the 

 modern Board of Trade. The divisions of the Public Record Office embraced in 

 this volume have been much less used for purposes of American history than the 

 "State Papers" described in Volume I. The largest sections of the book are those 

 relating to the Treasury, the Admiralty, the War Office, and the High Court of 

 Admiralty. Each of the two volumes has its own index. 



No. 90s. PAULLIN, C. O., and F. L. PAXSON. Guide to the Materials in London 

 Archives for the History of the United States since 1783. Octavo, 

 xi+642 pages. Published 1914. Price $4.00. 



This book is the result of several months of investigation in the Public Record 

 Office, British Museum, and some other repositories in London, on the part of 

 Dr. Paullin and Professor Paxson, supplemented by additional researches made 

 by Prof. C. E. Fryer and Mr. David W. Parker. The volume furnishes a comple- 

 ment to those of Professor Andrews, and of Professor Andrews and Miss Daven- 

 port, by supplying similar guidance to materials for the later period. The official 

 permissions for search originally extended to 1837 for most departments, but were 

 later extended to 1860. Thus the book contains descriptive lists, for 1783 to 1860, of 

 all the materials for the history of the United States which are to be found in the 

 sections at the Public Record Office known as Foreign Office Papers, Home Office 

 Papers, Colonial Office Papers, War Office Papers, Admiralty Papers, and many 

 minor subdivisions. It likewise supplements the Andrews-Davenport volume by a 

 mass of additional data respecting American materials in the British Museum. 

 No. 91. SHEPHERD, W. R. Guide to the Materials for the History of the United 

 States in Spanish Archives (Simancas, the Archive Historico National, 

 and Seville). Octavo, 107 pages. Published 1907. Price $0.50. 

 The three archives in Spain most abounding in materials for American history 

 are those of Simancas, the Archivo Historico Nacional in Madrid, and the Archives 

 of the Indies at Seville. Professor Shepherd, of Columbia University, after sev- 



