Il6 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



bodies and old universities. With many of these deposits Professor Learned 

 is already familiar. Six months' work should make possible the preparation 

 of a guide to at least the majority of them. 



Whether after the completion of Mr. Allison's inventory of the Protestant 

 religious archives it will be possible immediately to undertake a similar de- 

 scriptive list of the materials for American religious history in the archives 

 of the Catholic dioceses, orders, and colleges, is uncertain ; nor is it equally 

 needful, Catholics having, proportionately, done much more to illustrate the 

 annals of their church by documentary publication than have the Protestant 

 denominations. It should be easily possible within the year to complete and 

 publish the lists of documents derived from the Spanish archives and relating 

 to American history, which have been printed or of which transcripts exist in 

 the United States. As much as possible will be done toward carrying forward 

 the calendar of documents in Washington archives relating to the territories. 



Texts. — Miss Davenport's main task for 1909 will be the completion of the 

 volume or volumes of treaties, already referred to ; Dr. Burnett's, that of the 

 series of letters of delegates to the Old Congress. The scope of both under- 

 takings was described in my last annual report. The pieces of work still nec- 

 essary toward the finishing of the latter are : the searching of the archives and 

 chief libraries of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland ; the 

 inspection, so largely as may be permitted, of the collections of letters of mem- 

 bers of the Old Congress which are in private hands ; the copying of the un- 

 printed letters found ; the collation with the originals, when accessible, of the 

 texts of those already in print ; and the labor of annotation. 



It is impossible to predict just how large a portion of the work requisite for 

 the proposed series of American Proceedings and Debates in Parliament can 

 be accomplished within the year 1909. The search of the journals of the Brit- 

 ish House of Commons can certainly be completed ; perhaps also that of the 

 journals of the House of Lords and of the Scottish and Irish houses, and the 

 search for reports of American debates in printed books accessible in Ameri- 

 can libraries. Copying of journal matter can be begun. Beside rarer printed 

 sources, in the British Museum and elsewhere, Dr. Jernegan has located a 

 great variety of manuscript reports of debates extant in England, which must 

 ultimately be searched for American material. Of Irish parliamentary de- 

 bates, apart from the one published collection, he has discovered the only 

 extensive record, and a very important one, in the Division of Manuscripts in 

 the Library of Congress. 



Miscellaneous Operations; Department Building. — Activities similar to 

 those described under this head above, in the report concerning the past 

 twelve months, must be expected to be maintained in 1909. Aside from these, 

 the main matter to be mentioned in this concluding section of this report is 



