DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.* 



J. Franklin Jameson, Director. 



The following report, the ninth annual report of the present Director, 

 covers the period from November 1, 1913, to October 1, 1914. The 

 regular staff of the Department has continued without change during 

 the year. Professor William I. Hull of Swarthmore College, Professor 

 Frank A. Colder of the Washington State College, and Dr. Francis S. 

 Philbrick of New York have assisted the Department in work in 

 Europe. Rear- Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N., retired, has ac- 

 cepted an engagement to assist the Department for six months in the 

 capacity of Research Associate, but does not begin his term of service 

 until November 1, 1914. 



From last November until September 1, Mr. Leland was in Paris, 

 continuing his work there until, on the date named, it seemed plain, 

 archives being closed and an investment of the city by the Germans being 

 immediately expected, that the work could not be carried on further. 

 Mr. Leland had been disposed, largely on account of copyists depend- 

 ent upon his payments, to keep on with his work as long as conditions 

 permitted its maintenance, and had done so with great coolness and 

 good judgment, but on the date named found that it was impossible 

 to continue useful ser\dce longer, and with some difficulty effected his 

 return to the United States. It had been expected, before the Euro- 

 pean war broke out, that he would return in November. Only a small 

 part of the work for which he went to Paris remains uncompleted. 

 Miss Davenport, except for a brief period of vacation, has remained at 

 work in London, but, on the advice of officials of the American embassy, 

 returns to this country in October, her present work in London having 

 been so nearly completed that the last details can be finished for her 

 by others. 



The Department has continued to occupy the same quarters as in 

 the preceding year, in the Woodward Building in Washington. In the 

 middle of June, as usual, its headquarters were removed to North 

 Edgecomb, Maine, where the office work proceeded until the middle of 

 September. 



Statements respecting the general plans of the Department and the 

 purposes which its operations are intended to subserve have been made 

 in former reports. Briefly expressed, the main purpose of the Depart- 

 ment is to serve the interests of present and future makers of historical 

 monographs and general histories, by providing aids belonging to one 

 or the other of two main classes — either books which show the inquirer 



*Address: 1140 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. (For previous reports see Year 

 Books Nos. 3-12). 



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