180 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



Professor John S. Bassett, of Smith College, in continuation of his 

 work, described in the last report of the Department, upon the Cor- 

 respondence of Andrew Jackson, was able to devote some time to 

 that collection during the academic year, and the short vacations, 

 and the whole of August (and, to anticipate, most of September). 

 At the end of July he made a thorough search of the Nashville region 

 for additional materials, and then came to Washington for several 

 weeks of work in the arranging and annotation of the letters already 

 copied in the Jackson Collection possessed by the Library of Congress. 

 Miss Jane Boyd continued the work of transcription from Novem- 

 ber to July, and Professor W. J. Seelye assisted in collation. 



Others outside the regular staff who assisted the work of the De- 

 partment during the year were Miss Elizabeth Donnan, formerly a 

 member of the Department, but now assistant professor in Wellesley 

 College; Mrs. N. M. Miller Surrey, of New York City; Professor 

 Herbert C. Bell, of Bowdoin College; Mr. Abel Doysie, of Paris; Mrs. 

 R. C. H. Catterall; and Mr. David M. Matteson, of Cambridge. 

 The work done by each is described in its appropriate place below. 



As in previous years, acknowledgment is cordially made of the 

 favors constantly shown to the Department, with the greatest liber- 

 ality, by the officials of the Library of Congress, and especially by 

 Dr. Herbert Putnam, the librarian; by Mr. A. P. C. Griffin, chief 

 assistant librarian; by Mr. Charles Moore, chief of the Manuscripts 

 Division; and by Mr. P. Lee Phillips, chief of the Map Division. 

 Grateful recognition is also made of the courtesy shown by the New 

 York Public Library in facilitating the work of Mrs. Surrey. The 

 Director wishes also to express his thanks to the authorities of the 

 British Museum and the Public Record Office, especially Dr. Hubert 

 Hall, and to librarians and archivists in Ghent, the Hague, and 

 Middelburg. At the same time, no American student of history is 

 likely to return without a heightened appreciation of the advantages 

 he enjoys in the Library of Congress and other American libraries by 

 reason of the longer hours, the greater freedom, and the excellent 

 mechanical facilities. 



REPORTS. AIDS. AND GUIDES. 



The ''Guide to Materials for American History in Paris Archives," 

 upon which Mr. Leland has long been engaged, has been considerably 

 advanced during the year and has been brought to the point where he 

 can profitably go again to Paris, in the next spring, to bring it to 

 completion. All gaps left in his notes when his work there was 

 interrupted by the advent of war in 1914 have been noted and arrange- 

 ments made for their systematic filling. In course of this preparation, 

 Mr. Leland has partly gone through the Stevens Catalogue in the 

 Library of Congress, Stevens's Facsimiles, and the groups of papers 

 there known as the Peace Transcripts and the French Alliance Tran- 

 scripts. He hopes to complete whatever examination of them neces- 



