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States, but also cast an extraordinary amount of light upon the civil history and 

 administration, especially French and Spanish. Besides the Vatican archives, the 

 volume embraces the manuscripts in the Vatican Library, in other ecclesiastical 

 collections, and in public and private libraries in Rome. The archives of Naples, 

 Venice, Turin, and Florence are likewise included. There is a full index. 



No. 150. LEARNED, M. D. Guide to the Materials relating to American History in 

 the German State Archives. Octavo, vn-(-352 pages. Published 1912. 

 Price $2.25. 



German materials touch the history of the United States in the ordinary manner 

 of diplomatic relations, and also, and in a very interesting manner, in the particular 

 episode of the Hessian and other auxiliary troops in the American War of Inde- 

 pendence. But the leading relation between German history and that of the United 

 States has lain in the field of the history of German emigration, which, beginning 

 in the seventeenth century and continuing to the present time, has contributed no 

 doubt not less than one-fifth to the population of the United States. Therefore 

 Professor Learned's inspection of German archives, though ample and detailed in 

 the case of diplomatic archives and of the Hessian and other military papers, was 

 far from being confined to these. On the contrary, he made an examination of all 

 seventeen of the Prussian provincial state archives, of the eight provincial archives 

 in Bavaria, and of the archives of the minor German states, making it his chief 

 object to note volumes and papers which bore upon the history of the migration of 

 German population to America. The volume is minutely indexed. 



No. 220. FAUST, A. B. Guide to the Materials for American History in Swiss and 

 Austrian Archives. Octavo, x-f-299 pa ges. Published 1916. Price $2.00. 

 In Switzerland there is some material for American history in the archives of 

 the Confederation at Bern, but still more in the archives of the cantons. This is 

 mainly because of the large emigration from the German-speaking cantons of 

 Switzerland to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor 

 Faust has discovered, and listed or described, large masses of interesting papers 

 exhibiting the history of this migration and the relations of the Swiss Government 

 to it. The largest number were found in the cantonal archives of Zurich, Bern, 

 and Basel. Descriptions of the state archives in the French-speaking cantons have 

 been added, as a result of personal research, by the Director of the Department 

 of Historical Research, Dr. J. F. Jameson. Professor Faust's researches in the 

 Austrian archives cover those of Vienna, Salzburg, and Innsbruck. At Vienna, 

 a valuable series of papers in the Hof-, Haus-. und Staats-archiv illustrates the 

 history of the diplomatic relations between the United States and Austria. Papers 

 in other governmental archives in Vienna, and in those of Salzburg and Innsbruck, 

 illustrate the history of emigration from Austria to America. 



No. 234. HILL, ROSCOE R. Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents relating to 

 the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, 

 deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville. Octavo, XLin-f- 

 594 pages. Published 1916. Price $4.00. 



Of all the various sections of the Archives of the Indies at Seville, the richest 

 in material for the history of the United States is that called "Papeles proce- 

 dentes de la Isla de Cuba." This is a mass of correspondence, documents, and 

 records, which was transferred to Spain in 1888 from Havana, where it had con- 

 stituted a part of the archives of the office of the Captain-General, "dead files" 

 relating to regions outside of Cuba and no longer in his jurisdiction. Out of 

 about 2,500 legajos (bundles) which were thus transferred, some 934 relate to 

 regions now forming a part of the continental territory of the United States. 

 The total number of documents in these lies between 400.000 and 500,000, and the 

 whole constitutes a very important mass of material for the history of the United 

 States, chiefly of Florida, West Florida, Louisiana, and the Mississippi Valley, in 

 the period from 1763 to 1819. Mr. Hill's book, the product of more than two years' 

 labor in Seville on his part and that of clerical assistants, describes the contents 

 of each of these legajos as fully as this can be done in the average space of 



