I20 REPORTS OF INVE;STIGATI0NS AND PROJECTS. 



PLANS FOR 1910. 



The continuance of the various pieces of work now in progress must nat- 

 urally constitute the main portion of the work of the Department for next 

 year. 



REPORTS, AIDS, AND GUIDES. 



The first place naturally belongs to the printing and publication of the 

 works by Messrs. Bolton, Fish, Allison, and Robertson, already described 

 as nearly or quite completed in manuscript. It will be expected that Mr. 

 Learned will be able by the end of the academic year to submit the manu- 

 script of his report on his German expedition. Mr. Andrews will do all that 

 the progress of reclassification in the Public Record Office permits him to do 

 toward finishing his Guide to the materials for American history to 1783 in 

 that repository. Mr. Leland will proceed to Paris as early as possible in the 

 spring, to deal with the materials yet remaining and with those which, as 

 has been mentioned above, have been newly thrown open to public examina- 

 tion. Mr. Parker, or some one else if his relations with the Canadian archive 

 establishment make him unavailable, will complete the calendar of Terri- 

 torial papers by examination of those which are preserved in the files of the 

 Senate and House of Representatives. 



In the place of the enterprises which have been completed or are nearing 

 completion, I should wish to begin three new undertakings. 



In the first place, a report on the materials in London archives for Ameri- 

 can history since 1783 is the natural complement to those which have been 

 prepared on the earlier period. From the recognition of American independ- 

 ence by Great Britain in 1783 the materials for American history in her 

 archives take on naturally a different character, making 1783 an obvious 

 dividing-point in the subject-matter. The center of interest shifts from the 

 Colonial Office to the Foreign Office papers. In the latter, the diplomatic re- 

 lations between Great Britain and the United States can now be studied, by 

 persons properly introduced, down to at least the year 1848, a period of sixty- 

 five years. That those relations constitute an important part of American 

 history needs no demonstration, and excellent students are beginning to deal 

 with them. Other aspects of Anglo-American relations, both in times of war 

 and in times of peace, are illustrated by large masses of material in the War 

 Office and Admiralty papers, while our relations to Canada and to other 

 American colonies retained by Great Britain give value to considerable por- 

 tions of the Colonial Office papers. 



Fortunately the process of reclassification has been carried through with 

 respect to nearly all the Public Record Office material which would be dealt 

 with in the proposed manual, so that there would be no need to apprehend 

 embarrassment or delay from this source. Minor archives would, for this 



