196 REPORTS ON INVE;STIGATI0NS and PROJECTS. 



Mr. Leland, and arrangements have been made to catalogue those in the State 

 Historical Library at Madison, Wisconsin, The whole list, so far as Eng- 

 land and Spain are concerned, is expected to be brought to completion by the 

 spring of 1907. 



For similar reasons, indeed for obviously stronger reasons, lists of printed 

 documents obtained from foreign archives were planned from the beginning 

 of this work. The English list, which had been compiled some years ago by 

 Miss Gertrude Kimball, of Providence, under the auspices of the American 

 Antiquarian Society, and which was turned over to this Department, has 

 been brought down to date and otherwise completed by Miss Kimball, and 

 contains about 15,000 items. A similar list relating to the Spanish archives 

 has been compiled by Miss Mary Griffin, and contains about 2,000 items. 



Under the rubric of "aids" mention might be made of a code of "Sug- 

 gestions for the printing of documents relating to American history," which 

 was jointly prepared by Prof. Edward G. Bourne, of Yale University, at 

 that time chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the Amer- 

 ican Historical Association ; Mr. Worthington C. Ford, Chief of the Division 

 of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, and the director of this depart- 

 ment. It was printed b}^ the American Historical Association, and has been 

 given extensive circulation among historical societies and students. 



Texts. 



Miss Davenport has been engaged throughout the year with the prepara- 

 tion of a volume which shall contain accurate texts of those treaties or parts 

 of treaties between European powers which have a bearing on the history of 

 the United States. In spite of their obvious importance to American history, 

 these texts are difficult to procure. Many have never been printed accurately ; 

 some have never been printed at all. The contemplated volume will give 

 texts carefully collated with the originals in European archives, and historical 

 introductions and notes by Miss Davenport. 



The second of our text publications on which progress was made during 

 the year was that embracing the letters of delegates to the Old Congress, 

 described more fully in a preceding paragraph and in Mr. McLaughlin's last 

 report. The endeavor to locate additional collections of such letters has 

 been continued by Mr. Leland through correspondence and personal visits. 

 In Rhode Island a systematic search is being made by Miss Kimball. A 

 beginning has been made in the archives of Massachusetts. The collections 

 of the Connecticut Historical Society have been thoroughly searched and all 

 the letters of this sort found there, some 200 in all, have been copied. In 

 New Hampshire, through the kind offices of Prof. Herbert D. Foster, of 

 Dartmouth College, a collection of 58 letters has been located and copied. 



