DEIPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH. IO3 



PLANS FOR 1908. 



Reports, .-lids, and Guides. — The volume described in a previous section, 

 prepared by Professor Andrews, with the assistance of j\liss Davenport, and 

 entitled "Guide to the materials for the history of the United States (to 1783) 

 in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the manuscript 

 collections of Oxford and Cambridge," can easily be brought out early in 

 1908. Professor Allison's inventory of materials for American religious 

 history preserved in ecclesiastical archives will with little doubt be ready 

 in the spring. It is hoped that Dr. I\Iarcus W. Jernegan, formerly of the 

 University of Chicago, who will take Mr. Leland's place while the latter 

 works in Paris, will be able, along with other labors, to make at least an 

 important beginning of the proposed calendar of papers, scattered through 

 various archives in Washington, relating to the history of the territories of 

 the United States. Such a list, as was explained in my last report, will 

 be of great use to all who are v.^orking on the early history of our Western 

 States, yet is certain not to be prepared by any one Department of the Federal 

 Governmient. It will also be possible to complete for publication our list 

 of transcripts and printed documents from the Spanish archives, with the 

 possible exception of those in the H. H. Bancroft Library, lately acquired 

 by the University of California, and to publish this list as an accom.paniment 

 to Mr. Shepherd's Guide. 



In Mexico Mr. Bolton, whose leave of absence from the University of 

 Texas will expire in September, will from present appearances complete, early 

 in 1908, his inventory of the papers relating to the history of the United 

 States contained in the civil and ecclesiastical archives of the Federal 

 capital, after which he will carry through, as far as is possible, a similar 

 examination of the various provincial archives in the northern States of the 

 Republic. If the time proves insufficient for examining all these with the 

 same care he has applied in the City of Mexico, he will naturally devote him- 

 self primarily to those w^hich are farthest from Texas, leaving some of those 

 nearest to be dealt with subsequently during some briefer leave of absence or 

 vacation. After his return to Austin in September he will give his time, so 

 far as university duties allow, to preparing his report from the notes accu- 

 mulated. To a large degree, however, he is already doing this, day by day, 

 during the hours in which archives are not open. Similarly, Mr. Leland will 

 expect to complete by the end of September his survey of the Parisian 

 archives, and then to return to America with the materials for a volume. 



In the summer, before these researches are quite completed, I desire 

 to have a beginning made of a year's work in the archives and libraries of 

 Rome, w^here, as explained in the last annual report, a rich harvest of material 

 for American history awaits investigation, for which, it is believed, amiple 

 facilities have been secured by various official'permissions. 



