DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.^ 



J. Franklin Jameson, Director. 



The following report, the sixteenth annual report submitted by 

 the present Director, covers the period of eleven months extending 

 from October 1, 1920, to August 31, 1921. 



In the staff of the Department there was, at the beginning of the 

 year reported upon, a vacancy due to the resignation, in the preced- 

 ing August, of Miss Esther Galbraith. In January that vacancy was 

 filled by the accession of Miss Shirley Farr, formerly an instructor 

 in the University of Chicago. Miss Louisa F. Washington, who 

 since the autumn of 1918 had been the stenographer of the Depart- 

 ment, resigned that position at the beginning of April, after nearly 

 three years of most faithful and efficient service. During April, 

 May, and the first half of June, Mr, Jesse A. Langley occupied that 

 position. In view of the absence of the Director in Europe, it was 

 not thought necessary to fill it during the summer. From November 

 on, it will be filled by Mrs. Louise F. Pierce. 



On June 24 the Director sailed for England, upon an absence which 

 continued till the end of the year reported upon and of which the 

 chief object was the collecting of materials and the making of arrange- 

 ments for the proposed volumes of the Correspondence of the British 

 Ministers in Washington, an undertaking described at a later point 

 in this report. There were also subsidiary objects, which led to a 

 brief visit, at the end of July and in the early days of August, to 

 several towns and persons in Belgium and the Netherlands, and will 

 cause journeys to Paris and to the three chief archives of Spain, 

 those of Simancas, Madrid, and Seville, before the return to America. 

 From July 11 to July 16, the Director was occupied with attendance 

 upon the sessions of an Anglo-American Conference of Professors of 

 History, called by the University of London upon the occasion of the 

 opening of its new Institute of Historical Research, and intended for 

 the consideration of problems of historical research and publication 

 rather than of class-room instruction. He also attended, as a corre- 

 sponding member, sessions of the British Academy and of the Classe 

 des Lettres in the Academic Royale de Belgique. 



Several persons outside the regular staff of the Department have 

 during the year given important and valued assistance to its work. 

 In November and December Professor Marcus W. Jernegan, of the 

 University of Chicago, known as an authoritative student of the 

 earlier history of education and religion in America, devoted some 

 weeks to the intricate and difficult work of preparing, in concert with 

 Dr. PauUin, those maps in the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the 

 United States which will illustrate educational and religious history by 

 exhibiting the situation of colleges and churches at different periods. 



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