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indexer. Since the receipt of the manuscript at the office of the 

 Department, it has undergone its final preparations for pubhcation, 

 and has recently gone to the printer. 



On returning from Russia, by the difficult journey alluded to above, 

 Professor Frank A. Colder brought with him safely the manuscript 

 notes for his Guide to the Materials for American History in the 

 Archives of Russia. During the period which he spent in Washington 

 after his return, he prepared from these notes the manuscript of his 

 volume, a book which will apparently amount to 150 or 200 pages of 

 print, rich in information respecting the history of diplomatic relations 

 between the United States and Russia and of the explorations and 

 settlements of Russia in northwestern America. This manuscript will 

 shortly be made ready for publication. 



The fourth manuscript alluded to, that of Miss Davenport upon 

 European treaties relating to America, is more fittingly described in 

 the next section of this report. 



The arrangements which Mr. W. G. Leland, on leaving Paris in 

 September 1914, had made for continuing in the French archives, 

 dming his absence, the work of research toward his Guide to Materials 

 for American History to be found there, had to be canceled in the 

 winter because of the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in those 

 archives and the difficulty of securing anyone competent to undertake 

 general supervision of the work. The archives of the Foreign Office 

 have remained closed throughout the year; until they reopen, it will 

 be impossible to complete the work of the Guide. Monsieur Abel 

 Doysie, who had so efficiently aided Mr. Leland for several years past, 

 is now in the army, and other members of the staff employed by Mr. 

 Leland v/hen in Paris have been scattered by the events of the war. 

 Except for the obtaining of notes on certain portions of the archives 

 of the Ministry of Marine, through the courtesy of Mr. H. P. Biggar, 

 agent of the Canadian government, little has been done in Paris. 

 Meanwhile, Mr, Leland's notes, the fruits of several years' labor, 

 arrived safely in America, bj^ reason of careful precautions and arrange- 

 ments made by him. Since thek arrival he has spent a considerable 

 amount of time in arranging and cataloguing them, endeavoring to do 

 what could be done toward completing the manuscript while awaiting 

 the conclusion of the war. That event alone can bring an opportunity 

 to do in Paris the relatively small amount of work which had not been 

 finished before the outbreak of hostilities. 



A year ago it was reported that Dr. Francis S. Philbrick had made, 

 in the Archives of the Indies, at Seville, all the necessary arrangements 

 for the making of a series of 2,000 photographs, from a certain series 

 of Louisiana documents preserved there. The photographs were to 

 be made in the archives by a firm of photographers in Seville. Paper 

 for the negatives, delayed by the outbreak of the war, reached Seville 



