DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.^ 



J. Franklin Jameson, Director. 



The following report, the seventeenth annual report submitted by the 

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

 tember 1, 1921, to August 31, 1922. 



In the staff of the Department two changes have occurred during the year 

 reported upon. Miss Shirley Farr, who since January 1, 1920, had rendered 

 excellent service to the Department, chiefly in connection with the editing 

 of the American Historical Review, resigned her position after jfifteen months' 

 continuance, her resignation taking effect on the first of April. Her place 

 has been filled by the appointment of Miss Mary F. Griffin, of Washington, 

 formerly an editor of publications in the Bureau of the Census, who began 

 service with the Department on the fii'st of May. From December 1, Mrs. 

 Louise F. Pierce has been the stenographer of the Department, taking the 

 place, after an interval, of Miss Louisa F. Washington. 



At the time with which the last report concluded, the Director was in 

 England, occupied, as he had been during July and August, with the collect- 

 ing of materials and the making of arrangements for the proposed volumes of 

 the Correspondence of the British Ministers to the United States. He re- 

 mained in England till October 8, working upon this task, most of the time 

 in London. A brief visit was made to Bristol, for examination of slave-trade 

 papers in the possession of the Society of Merchant Venturers and in the 

 Hobhouse Collection in the Bristol PubHc Library, in connection with Miss 

 Donnan's proposed volumes of documents illustrating the history of the slave 

 trade to America. Visits were also made to Cambridge and to Edinburgh, 

 the latter with two objects, the one connected with the papers of Sir Robert 

 Listen, second British minister to the United States, and the other connected 

 with a search in the archives of the General Register House, which Miss Sybil 

 Norman has been carrying on for the Department, toward the making of a 

 list of materials relative to American history which are to be found in that 

 repository. The Director also attended, as a member, a session of the Anglo- 

 American Historical Committee, formed as a result of the Anglo-American 

 Conference of Professors of History held at the University of London in the 

 preceding July. 



After leaving London the Director made brief visits to the principal library of 

 Rouen and to the chief archives in Paris, and then proceeded to Spain for a brief 

 reconnaissance of the leading archives, intended to put him in a position to 

 shape more intelhgently any subsequent plans for further work of the Depart- 

 ment in Spain. He visited the three archives most important in respect of 

 materials for American history, that of Simancas, the Archive Historico 

 Nacional at Madrid, and the Archive General de Indias at Seville, where he 

 received every kindness from the respective chief archivists, Sefior Don Juan 

 Montero, Sefior Don Joaquin Gonzalez y Fernandez, and Senor Don Pedro 

 Torres Lanzas, and from Miss Irene A. Wright, the friend and adviser of all 

 American workers in Seville. Sailing from Lisbon, he also had an opportunity 

 to examine the principal archive of Portugal, that called the Archive da Torre 

 do Tombo. 



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