112 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Mr. Fryer, at the date in September when he was obliged to conclude, had 

 covered only the Privy Council papers of the period involved and a portion, 

 something like one-half, of the Foreign Office series. In October Mr. David 

 W. Parker was sent to London to complete the work. The materials in the 

 Public Record Office for the history of America since 1783 being exceed- 

 ingly voluminous, the method followed throughout the whole of this book, 

 both by Professor Paxson and Dr. Paullin and by Professor Fryer, has neces- 

 sarily been that of presenting a somewhat full description of each volume 

 without attempting to list or to calendar individual papers. 



Just before the first of October 1910 Mr. David W. Parker began in 

 Ottawa the making of a "Guide to the materials for United States history in 

 Canadian archives." Of this piece of work, much the largest part consisted 

 in examining and describing materials in the archives of the Dominion of 

 Canada at Ottawa. This work was interrupted for nearly three months by 

 an attack of typhoid fever, of which there was an epidemic in Ottawa at the 

 time. Aside from this interruption in the spring, Mr. Parker's work went 

 on steadily from October to September. The manuscript was then delivered 

 to me. Mr. Parker having worked in the office of the Department in Wash- 

 ington for the better part of two years, and being familiar with its methods 

 of dealing with manuscripts intended for print, his Ottawa report is practi- 

 cally ready for the printer at the present time. The remaining portion of 

 the volume will consist of briefer reports upon the less copious, though in 

 many cases important and interesting, materials for United States history 

 preserved in provincial archives. Those of Quebec, especially the archives 

 of the archbishopric, w^ere examined in June by Prof. Frederick J. Zwier- 

 lein, of St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, New York, who was most kindly 

 assisted in the work by the custodian of the ecclesiastical archives, Abbe 

 Lionel St. George Lindsay. Father Zwierlein's report has been presented. 

 The archives of the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, at Hali- 

 fax and Fredericton respectively, were examined by Mr. Parker in Septem- 

 ber, and his report upon them has been received. The archives of the prov- 

 ince of Ontario can not at present be inspected with advantage, nor until they 

 have been installed in new quarters made necessary by the burning about 

 two years ago of that portion of the government buildings in Toronto in the 

 vaults of which they were then stored. The archives of the other Canadian 

 provinces contain relatively much less for the history of the United States. 

 Measures have been taken to secure by correspondence brief reports upon 

 them. Thus the report upon the Canadian archives is nearly finished ; quite 

 as nearly as circumstances permit. 



Mr. Leland's mission in Paris will, by the date at which the present report 

 is concluded, have been brought nearly to its conclusion. His work during 

 the past year has, owing to the archive situation in Paris, been divided 

 between the archives of the various ministries, the Archives Nationales, 

 and the Bibliotheque Xationale. The latter case is like that of the British 



