I08 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



The next most important work of the year has been the printing of the 

 "Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 

 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the hbraries 

 of Oxford and Cambridge," by Prof. Charles M. Andrews, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Miss Frances G. Davenport, of our staff. The man- 

 uscript (Miss Davenport's portion having taken a long time to complete) 

 was sent to the printer in March ; the last page-proofs were received in Au- 

 gust. The nature of the book required an exceptionally full index. This at 

 the end of October is in the press, and the volume should appear before the 

 end of the calendar year. I do not hesitate to say that, with its companion 

 volume on the Public Record Ofifice, by Mr. Andrews alone, it constitutes a 

 work that will do more to advance the study of the English colonies in Amer- 

 ica than any previous book ever written. Of the present volume somewhat 

 more than half is the work of Professor Andrews, the product of systematic 

 labors beginning in 1904. He has listed and described all the manuscript 

 materials for the history of the United States prior to 1783 which are to be 

 found in the British Museum, the Privy Council Ofifice, the Bodleian Library, 

 and the libraries of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Miss Davenport 

 has dealt in a similar manner with the manuscripts of the House of Lords, 

 Lambeth Palace, Fulham, the Royal Society, and many minor repositories. 

 The whole constitutes a volume of about 500 pages, embracing a vast amount 

 of detail, worked out with unsparing labor by both authors. 



Mr. Andrews's similar volume on the materials for American history in 

 the Public Record Office has been held from completion, as was explained 

 in my last report, by the thoroughgoing changes of classification undertaken 

 among the papers of that great repository. The process will continue to 

 delay Mr. Andrews till next summer. During the intervening year, how- 

 ever, he has done what could be done, on the basis of information sent him 

 from London, toward reshaping the materials of his Guide into accordance 

 wath the new conditions. Naturally this is a lesser part of the work of re- 

 writing than that which must be performed on the spot. 



Mr. Waldo G. Leland, of our permanent staff, has been in Paris since the 

 date of the last annual report, engaged in preparing, on a plan having a gen- 

 eral similarity to that of Mr. Andrews's volumes, a Guide to the materials for 

 American history in the archives and libraries of that city. The officials in 

 charge seem to have given him every facility, and he has examined with care 

 the chief collections in which papers relating to the history of the United 

 States or Canada arc to be found. These are the Archives Nationales, the 

 archives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, War, and Colonies, and the 

 Bibliotheque Nationale. In the case of the Bibliotheque Nationale, he has 

 had, through the kindness of Dr. A. G. Doughty, C. M. G., archivist of the 

 Dominion of Canada, the aid of the materials which Dr. H. P. Biggar, Cana- 



