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The second book, published in July, is the second volume of Professor 

 Charles M. Andrews's "Guide to the materials for American History, 

 to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain," being Volume II 

 of Publication No. 90 a. With this volume Dr. Andrews concludes a 

 long period of service to the Carnegie Institution of Washington and to 

 investigators of our colonial and Revolutionary history, a period which 

 began in 1903, and, continued from time to time in subsequent years, 

 as he has been able to secure freedom for such work, resulted first in 

 the "Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United 

 States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and 

 in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge," published by the Institution 

 in 1908, and then in the two volumes on the materials in the Public 

 Record Office, published respectively in 1912 and 1914. It is seldom 

 that a scholar of such eminence has been persuaded to devote so much 

 time to a task so exacting and so arid as the making of these inventories, 

 and all students of American colonial and Revolutionary histor}^ are 

 under great obligations to Dr. Andrews for the service he has so un- 

 grudgingly rendered to them. Professor Andrews's last preceding 

 volume having dealt with the State Papers, Foreign and Domestic, 

 Colonial and Miscellaneous, the present book, the final volume of our 

 London series, a book of 427 pages, deals with what are technically 

 called Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers, as distinguished from 

 State Papers properly so called. Its successive sections treat of the 

 Admiralty Papers, those of the Audit Office, the Declared Accounts, 

 the Lord Chamberlain's Papers, those of the Commissariat, Custom 

 House, Postmaster General's Office, Treasury, Treasury Solicitor, War 

 Office, High Court of Admiralty, and modern Board of Trade, and of 

 certain special collections — Manchester, Cornwallis, Shaftesbury, 

 Rodney, and Chatham papers. The most extensive sections are those 

 which deal with the papers of the Admiralty, Treasury, War Office, and 

 the High Court of Admiralty. Each section consists of valuable 

 introductions upon the history and business of the office which pro- 

 duced the papers, or to which they came in the course of administration, 

 and of lists and descriptions of documents relative to American history 

 which may be found in each section. 



The work performed by Mr. Leland and his assistants, from Novem- 

 ber to July, toward preparation of the Guide to the materials for 

 American history in the archives and libraries of Paris, consisted in 

 the examination of something more than a thousand volumes and 

 cartons of manuscripts, and 174 maps. This work was performed in a 

 variety of repositories. In the Archives Nationales more than 300 

 volumes were examined, besides the maps. More than 300 volumes 

 and cartons were in the archives of the Colonies, either in the collection 

 still retained at the ministry or in that which has been recently 

 transferred to the Archives Nationales; these were mostly in the series 



