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ministers in Philadelphia and Washington with the British officials in Canada 

 were close and important. The Public Archives of Canada, visited in Novem- 

 ber 1920, yielded notes of many letters. Photostat copies of these have been 

 obtained by the kindness of Mr. David W. Parker, chief of the manuscript 

 room at Ottawa, formerly a member of the staff of this Department, and notes 

 of others have been suppb'ed out of his unrivaled knowledge of the contents of 

 his archives. By the good offices of Mr. Harry Piers, provincial archivist of 

 Nova Scotia, transcripts of several interesting letters of early British ministers 

 to governors of that province have been added to the Department's collections. 

 Other transcripts are being made. Similar acquisitions from the archives of 

 Newfoundland are in course of preparation. 



Mr. William L. Clements, of Bay City, Michigan, has with much generosity 

 enabled the Department to take copies of a very interesting correspondence 

 belonging to him, amounting to eighteen letters, 1791-1793, between Ham- 

 mond and Colonel John Graves Simcoe, the first governor of Upper Canada. 

 From the papers of Vice-Admiral Sir George Berkeley, in the Toronto Public 

 Library, Dr. George H. Locke, its chief librarian, has supplied photostat copies 

 of a number of interesting letters of early British ministers, chiefly Anthony 

 Merry and David M. Erskine, addressed to Berkeley while he was in com- 

 mand on the American coast. 



The matter of the Bandelier collection of documents obtained in Spain and 

 relating to the Pueblo Indians and the history of the Rio Grande region, 

 though it did not originate with the Department, may now be regarded as 

 a part of its work in the textual publication of documents, since the collections 

 made by Dr. Bandeher and Mrs. BandeUer in Spain in 1914-1916 were in 

 1917 turned over to the Director for general supervision of the editing and 

 preparation for pubhcation. The editing was at that time confided to Dr. 

 Charles W. Hackett, now a professor in the University of Texas. Although 

 Dr. Hackett 's work has been impeded by various changes of place and 

 resulting obligations of new work, it is a pleasure to be able to report that the 

 complete manuscript of the first of the four volumes, which the collection 

 will make when printed, is now in the possession of the Department. Care- 

 ful examination of the manuscript shows that the work of transcription, trans- 

 lation, comment, and the supplying of introductions has been performed with 

 scrupulous painstaking and accuracy, and the manuscript for volume I is 

 now ready to be offered for publication. It contains two parts of the material 

 collected : first, that relating to the period in the expansion of Spain in North 

 America comprised between 1492 and 1590, and secondly, that relating to the 

 founding of New Mexico, 1543-1609. In the first section, after a compre- 

 hensive introduction. Dr. Hackett presents a body of reports relating to the 

 service and merits of discoverers and conquistadores of New Spain, a body of 

 cedulas and letters relating primarily to Indian affairs in Nueva Galicia and 

 Nueva Vizcaya and adjacent regions in the later years of the sixteenth century 

 and several documents relating to the early colonial administration of New 

 Spain — all new material, and of much interest. The second section presents 

 some fifty new and unpublished documents respecting the exploration and 

 settlement of New Mexico and its organization in its earhest years. 



