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preparation, such as the Atlas and the three textual collections, will 

 during the long process of preparation of such volumes be always placed 

 at the disposal of historical inquirers to the utmost extent which the 

 work of the office upon these volumes will permit. The same is true 

 of the proof-sheets of books still further advanced. 



PLANS FOR 1914. 

 REPORTS, AIDS, AND GUIDES. 



The first work of the Department, after the date at which the 

 present report commences, should be the issue of Dr. Andrews's 

 second volume and of the volume prepared by Messrs. Paullin and 

 Paxson. These may very well appear early in 1914. 



During the same period of November and December, sets of 

 prints from the photographic negatives made by Mr. Hill in the 

 archives of the Indies can be prepared and issued to the subscribers. 

 This will give each a photographic copy of 200 documents selected 

 by Mr. Hill as having the highest degree of historical interest. The 

 finishing of his volume beyond the point which is reported above as 

 having been already reached by him will necessarily be delayed in 

 most respects until June by his teaching engagements at Columbia 

 University. It may be hoped, however, that the summer will give 

 him sufficient opportunity to complete the book. 



Mr. Faust expects shortly to send the manuscript of his book upon 

 the German-Swiss and Austrian archives. In the same volume will 

 be incorporated the data which the Director obtained in the archives 

 of the French cantons of Switzerland in the summer of 1912. 



It is hoped that the year may be marked by further extension of 

 work in the archives of the Indies. It is planned that Mr. Francis S. 

 Philbrick, of New York, long familiar with those archives, may extend 

 through part of the series Audiencia de Santo Domingo the same sort 

 of descriptive listing of materials for United States history which Mr. 

 Hill carried out in the "Papeles procedentes de la Isla de Cuba." 

 It appears that, next to the last-named collection, the three Audi- 

 encias of Santo Domingo, Mexico, and Guadalajara are the most 

 abundant in such materials; but exploitation of the last two, it is 

 understood, has been undertaken by the University of California. 

 At the same time when Mr. Philbrick is thus engaged, the period of 

 the summer months, it is planned that M. Doysie, going down from 

 Paris to Seville, shall carry through the making of a large series of pho- 

 tographs with the Department's camera, a series which it is believed 

 will be strongly desired by a number of American archives, historical 

 societies, and libraries. The endeavor will be made to photograph a 

 continuous series in the Louisiana-Florida section, either the early 

 portion of the despatches of the governor of Louisiana to his superior 

 the captain-general at Havana, or the Reservada section in the same 

 correspondence. 



