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distribution of wealth by other methods, such as the plotting of the incidence 

 of income taxes. He has also made considerable progress in the collection of 

 materials for maps showing imports and exports. For all maps that have 

 been completed, the letterpress has also been prepared. In the execution of 

 the maps, Dr. Paullin has had, as usual, the aid of Mr. J. B. Bronson as 

 draftsman. 



Outside the archives and libraries of the national capitals, to which, in 

 general, the systematic searches instituted by the Department have been 

 confined, there are in the other libraries of Europe, scattered in small quanti- 

 ties here and there, a large number of manuscripts relating to American 

 history. There could be no hope of making a complete methodical search 

 for these, and descriptions of them, without the expenditure of great sums of 

 money. It is, however, possible with moderate effort to produce a manual 

 listing a great many of them, by the process of drawing off from the printed 

 catalogues of manuscripts put forth by a considerable number of these 

 libraries, or otherwise published, those items and descriptions which relate 

 to American history. The collecting of these, and the compilation of them 

 into a volume, has been the work intrusted to Mr. Matteson, of Cambridge, 

 who has given portions of his time to it during the past few years. In the 

 year now reported upon, he has nearly completed the work of collection from 

 the catalogue materials available in the various American libraries, and it is 

 believed that the work of compilation and of final preparation for printing 

 can be finished by the end of the year 1922. 



TEXTUAL PUBLICATIONS OF DOCUMENTS. 



Miss Davenport, working in London, has made ready for publication nine 

 more treaties, 1676-1686, for the second volume of her European Treaties 

 bearing on the History of the United States, with the exception that in the case 

 of one or two documents photographs of texts better than those of the manu- 

 scripts in the Public Record Office in London are expected to be received from 

 Continental archives. At the date of this report Miss Davenport is leaving 

 London, to resume work in Washington at the end of September. In London 

 she has served as a member of the Anglo-American Committee formed as a 

 result of the historical conference of July 1921. 



Dr. Burnett's work, aside from some time spent in services to the American 

 Historical Review, has consisted partly in seeing through the press the text 

 of the second volume of his Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, 

 partly in preparing the ''front matter" to that volume, partly in annotation 

 of the third volume. The second volume contains letters of the dates from 

 July 5, 1776, to the end of the year 1777. Its text amounts to 604 pages, 

 and embraces 795 letters, or parts of letters or diaries, containing information 

 respecting the doings of Congress additional to that which is to be found in 

 their printed Journals. The amount of entirely new matter, never before 

 printed, is considerably greater than in volume I, for it is the first period of the 

 Continental Congress, extending from its first assembling to the Fourth of 

 July, 1776, which has most attracted the attention of historians, and for which 

 the greatest number of letters and other documents have been put into print. 

 The front matter to volume II, alluded to above, consists of the introduction, 

 which Dr. Burnett has now begun to prepare, and an exhibit, now nearly 



