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defrayed out of a fund subscribed to by historical societies and 

 departments in the Mississippi Valley and others; but its progress is 

 constantly helpful to the preparation of the Guide, of a different 

 character and of a larger scope, which is being made by Mr. Leland 

 for the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In direct research his 

 operations have covered at the Foreign Office the series "Mexico, 

 Correspondance Politique," to as late a point as the regulations of 

 the Ministry permit, and the entire series Texas; also the most profit- 

 able portions of the series Russia, England, Vienna, and Denmark. 



At the Biblioth^que Nationale Mr. Leland has examined the 

 series Clairambault, at the Archives Nationales a portion of the series 

 Hi. Embracing in one view the personal work of Mr. Leland and 

 that of his assistants M. Doysie, Madame Vila, and Mile. Mairesse, 

 and comprising what has been surveyed both on our behalf and for 

 the benefit of the Mississippi Valley calendar, it may be reported that 

 about 1,040 volumes have been examined during the year. It is 

 estimated that up to the present time about 6,000 volumes or cartons 

 have been examined, completing the archives of the Ministry of War 

 and several hbraries, nearly completing the Bibliotheque Nationale 

 and the archives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of the 

 Colonies, and finishing about one-half of the Archives Nationales and 

 the archives of the Ministry of Marine. 



Mr. R. R. Hill finished his work in Seville at the end of March and 

 then returned to America. His engagements to teach in the Uni- 

 versity of California during the summer and at Columbia University 

 during the autumn and winter have interfered with the working into 

 shape for the printer of that portion of his data which is intended for 

 pubhcation, but much progress has been made in this direction. 

 The section of the Archives of the Indies which he was sent in 

 January 1911 to examine and which occupied him from that time to 

 March 1913 was the section entitled "Papeles procedentes de la Isla 

 de Cuba," a mass of papers transferred from Havana in 1888 and 

 richer than any other subdivision of the archives in materials for the 

 history of the United States. It proved to contain 934 legajos or 

 bundles relating wholly or in part (mostly the former) to our history, 

 and averaging more than 400 documents to the bundle. All of these 

 bundles were examined by Mr. Hill during the period of his stay in 

 Seville and all necessary notes taken for a general descriptive inven- 

 tory which it is proposed to publish in the form of one large volume. 

 Mr. Hill has finished the first draft of the description of 706 of the 

 934 legajos. Meanwhile, assistants, numbering from two to five 

 during various portions of the period, have worked steadily under 

 Mr. Hill's direction making an itemized list of all the documents in 

 a body of 143 legajos selected as the most important. The total 

 number of documents thus listed is 58,343. It is not thought that it 



