72 History, Economics, etc. 



half a page or a little more, and with such fulness of detail as to personal and 

 geographical names as will enable investigators to find whatever material in this 

 section of the archives relates to the particular subject of their inquiries. An 

 itemized list of all the documents in 158 of the most important legajos is kept in 

 manuscript in the office of the Department of Historical Research, which has also 

 photographed a series of more than 2,000 of the chief documents. 

 No. 239. COLDER, FRANK A. Guide to Materials for American History in Russian 

 Archives. Octavo, vm-fl77 pages. Published 1917. Price $1.00. 



The Russian archives contain two sorts of materials relating to the history of 

 the United States : one, papers relative to the diplomatic relations between the two 

 countries from the American Revolution down to the present time ; the other, 

 papers relating to Russian explorations in the Northern Pacific, and the settlement 

 and development of Russian America, now Alaska, down to its transfer to the 

 United States in 1867. These materials are preserved in a large number of different 

 archives at Moscow and Petrograd, those of dates subsequent to 1800 being in the 

 latter capital, while some of those of eighteenth-century dates are kept in Moscow. 

 Mr. Colder devoted several months to the examination of all of those archives, and 

 found a rich store of materials, which he has described carefully and systematically. 



Most of the diplomatic papers at Petrograd are in the archives of the Ministry 

 of Foreign Affairs, in which Mr. Colder was permitted to pursue his investigations 

 down to the year 1854 without restriction. In the other archives he was allowed 

 to proceed to even later dates. The diplomatic papers will be especially useful to 

 students of such episodes as the Russian mediation in 1813. the arbitration of 1822, 

 the treaty of 1824, Russian action during our Civil War, the Alaskan negotiations 

 of 1867, the Fur Seal Arbitration of 1893, and the boundary settlement of 1903. 

 On the other hand, the book lists a large variety of correspondence, journals, 

 log-books, manuscripts, maps, and charts relating to the explorations of Bering, 

 to later explorations, and to the early history of Russian America. There is a 

 full index. 



No. 254. DAVENPORT, FRANCES G. European Treaties bearing on the History of 

 the United States and its Dependencies, to 1648. Octavo, vi-f-387 

 pages. Published 1917. Price $2.50. 



The texts of the European treaties relating to America, and especially of the 

 earlier ones, are in many cases difficult to obtain. Many of them are in books to 

 which few historical students have access ; some have not been printed at all, most 

 have been printed with greater or less degrees of inaccuracy and incompleteness. 

 Dr. Davenport, after several years of study in European libraries and archives, 

 as well as in Washington, has assembled in this volume accurate texts of all those 

 treaties or parts of treaties anterior to 1649 which bear in any direct way upon 

 the history of the present United States or its insular dependencies (Porto Rico 

 and the Philippines, so far as the present volume is concerned). She has also 

 procured and included accurate texts of the papal bulls relating to America, docu- 

 ments which under the international law and practice of their period had a status 

 and force similar to that of treaties. Documents in any other language than 

 English and French have been accompanied with careful translations. To each 

 document an introduction is prefixed in which the history of its making is set 

 forth ; these introductions make an approach to a consecutive history of European 

 diplomacy respecting America down to the time of the treaties of Westphalia. 

 Introductions and texts are carefully annotated, and bibliographical sections give 

 suitable references to all matters respecting the documents and their history. 



