DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.^ 



J. Franklin Jameson, Directok. 



The following report, the eighteenth annual report submitted by the 

 present Director, covers the period of twelve months extending from Septem- 

 ber 1, 1922, to August 31, 1923. In the staff of the Department no changes 

 have occurred during the year. Mr. Leland has been in Paris throughout 

 the twelve months, with three brief exceptions. One consisted in a visit 

 to the Archives of the Compagnie des Indes at Lorient, the object of which 

 is described later in this report. The second was a brief period spent in 

 Brussels, in order to attend, in the interest of the Department and as repre- 

 sentative of the Institution, the Fifth International Congress of Historical 

 Studies, held in that city on April 8 to 15. The third was a visit of a few 

 days spent in London to attend, in July, on behalf of the Department, the 

 Anglo-American Conference of Professors of History, of whose " continuation 

 committee" he is a member. Miss Davenport had leave of absence from 

 the Institution for the three months extending from March to June, and spent 

 that period at Mount Holyoke College, taking the place of an absent professor. 



Several persons outside the regular staff of the Department have during 

 the year given valuable assistance to its work. Professor John S. Bassett, of 

 Smith College, continued throughout the year his editorial work upon the 

 Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, working in Northampton and devoting to 

 the subject as much time as his academic duties allowed. Professor Marcus 

 W. Jernegan, of the University of Chicago, and Miss Elizabeth Waterston, 

 of that institution, working under his direction, spent considerable time in 

 the elaboration of those maps which are to illustrate educational and religious 

 history in the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, which is 

 going forward under the general direction of Dr. PauUin. Miss Elizabeth 

 Donnan, formerly a member of the Department, now an associate professor 

 in Wellesley College, devoted most of her summer vacation and some lesser 

 fragments of the year to our work. Mrs. N. M. Miller Surrey and Mrs. 

 R. C. H. Catterall, both of New York City, worked consecutively upon their 

 portions of our work during most of the twelve months. 



Others outside the regular staff who assisted in the work of the Depart- 

 ment during the year were Mr. David M. Matteson, of Cambridge; Mr. 

 Abel Doysi6, of Paris; Miss Ruth A. Fisher, Miss Lillian M. Penson, Miss 

 Isobel D. Thornley, and Miss B. Eliott Lockhart, of London. 



As in previous years, acknowledgment is cordially made of the favors con- 

 stantly shown to the Department, with the greatest liberality, by the officials 

 of the Library of Congress, and especially by Dr. Herbert Putnam, the 

 librarian; by Mr. A. P. C. GrifRn, chief assistant librarian; by Mr. Charles 

 Moore, chief of the Division of Manuscripts; and by Mr. P. Lee Phillips, 

 chief of the Division of Maps. Grateful recognition is also made of the 

 courtesy shown by the New York Public Library in facilitating the work of 

 Mrs. Surrey; by the library of Harvard University in aiding that of Miss 

 Donnan and Miss Davenport; by the Association of the Bar of New York 

 City in affording to Mrs. Catterall special opportunities for her work; by 

 the authorities of the British Museum and the Public Record Office in aiding 

 that of Miss Fisher, Miss Penson, and Miss Thornley, and by librarians and 

 archivists in Paris, especially Mr. W. Dawson Johnston, librarian of the 

 American Library in Paris. 



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