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not all has been read or particularl}' classified. It is the intention 

 of the Bureau to prepare before the end of the current year a full 

 report on the nature, extent, and condition of these papers, to give 

 a close estimate of the proportion already printed in the "American 

 State Papers," and to indicate the nature of the important histor- 

 ical information they contain, especially in periods of peculiar inter- 

 est. A large portion of this task has already been accomplished. 

 A few documents of special importance have been discovered and 

 edited, notably a sketch of " Pinckney's Plan for a Constitution, 

 1787," printed in the "American Historical Review," July, 1904. 



The beginning of what it is hoped may be a valuable series of 

 monographs has been made by the publication of ' ' The Influence 

 of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy, 1 787-1 798," by Prof. E. D. 

 Adams, of Stanford Universit}'. 



The task of making a full list of the Washington letters has been 

 begun. While there are many of these letters in a few collections, 

 others are widely scattered throughout this country and Europe, and 

 the preparation of anything approximating a complete list will 

 naturally be the work of some years. 



