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Britain has been completed down to the year 1783. Some progress has 

 been made in copying the American entries in the Journals of the Irish 

 House of Commons, and the preliminary work of selection has been 

 carried through one of the large volumes of the "Acts of the Parliament 

 of Scotland." Meantime, a beginning has been made with the debate 

 material. The card catalogue of materials for this collection, showing 

 each printed version of any speech, or part of a speech, respecting 

 America within the period named, having been completed, except in 

 respect to a small portion of the eighteenth-century material, Mr. 

 Stock, who has now been made editor of the series and under whose 

 supervision all work relating to it has been conducted, has carried 

 somewhat beyond 1700 the process of critical sifting of these materials, 

 and the resulting texts of debates for that period have been copied. 

 Most of the work of search in the Journals of the House of Lords was 

 performed by Dr. Albert C. Dudley, of Baltimore, formerly of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS. 



As heretofore, the editing of the "American Historical Review" 

 has been carried on in the office of the Department and by its staff. 

 Aid has been given in a number of ways to the American Historical 

 Association, of which Mr. Leland is secretary. In particular Miss 

 Donnan has edited, for the Historical Manuscripts Commission of that 

 society, the papers of the elder James A. Bayard, representative and 

 senator from Delaware and member of the commission which negotiated 

 the Treaty of Ghent. Mr. Leland's supervision of the calendaring of 

 the papers in the French archives relating to the history of the Miss- 

 issippi Valley, for a group of American historical organizations, has 

 been accompanied by various similar services rendered by him to the 

 States of lUinois and Mississippi, to the Michigan Historical Commis- 

 sion, and to various individual American investigators who have visited 

 Paris for archive work or have desired information from the manuscripts 

 there. He has also supervised the making in Paris of an extensive series 

 of copies of historical manuscripts for the Library of Congress, an insti- 

 tution to which the work of this Department is constantlj^ indebted, 

 and which responds to all our desires with the utmost liberality. 



In Washington also, as in previous years, searches and copies have 

 been made by the Department, or under its supervision, for various 

 historical societies and for many individuals. Letters of inquiry as 

 to historical papers in Washington and other matters have been 

 answered with the usual freedom. It has steadily been regarded as a 

 part of the functions of the Department to further the interests in 

 Washington of all American historical scholars, and to mediate between 

 them and foreign archives and other remote sources of historical infor- 

 mation whenever occasion has arisen. 



