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Spanish-American Normal School at El Rito, New Mexico. The book 

 was not in fact issued until February, but was sufficiently described in 

 the last annual report. It has already fully proved its usefulness in the 

 hands of investigators of Spanish Louisiana and Florida and of the 

 Mississippi Valley in general. It is indeed capable, if its indications 

 are properly followed up by investigators, of remaking large portions 

 of that history, so slight hitherto has been the knowledge of the vast 

 mass of information contained in the great collection to which the 

 volume is a guide. 



In the Director's last annual report mention was made, in connection 

 with Dr. Hill's work, of the fuller guide to a portion of the same material, 

 not intended for print, at least at present, but retained in manuscript 

 in the offices of the Department, and constituting a calendar of about 

 143 legajos or bundles (out of 934, in the Papeles de Cuba, relating 

 to the history of the United States), selected as the most important 

 for that history. This calendar, embracing itemized descriptions of 

 about 58,000 documents, was made in duplicate by Mr. Hill and his 

 clerical assistants at Seville, on two sets of slips. Keeping one set in 

 an arrangement by legajos, in the order in which the documents them- 

 selves are found, the Department has completed the process of 

 arranging the other set in chronological order, so that henceforward 

 it will be able to locate promptly in the archives, for the benefit of 

 any historical inquirer, any important paper in the collection, in case 

 the date is exactly or approximately known by the inquirer. 



Mention was also made of ten sets of photographic prints, each 

 embracing about 3,000 plates, covering the main series of regular 

 official (civil) despatches, found in the Papeles de Cuba, and 

 addressed by Spanish governors in Louisiana to the captain-general 

 at Havana, and extending from the arrival of UUoa as governor in 

 1766 to that of Carondelet at the beginning of 1792. These ten sets 

 of photographs were made upon the calculation that that number of 

 facsimile reproductions of these important documents, central to the 

 history of Louisiana and of the Mississippi Valley during the period 

 indicated, would be desired by libraries and other public institutions 

 interested in the history of the United States. I am glad to report 

 that within a few months of their being offered for sale all ten sets were 

 taken, by the following nine institutions, and by one private purchaser : 

 Harvard University Library, New York Public Library, Hispanic 

 Society of America, Library of Congress, Howard Memorial Library, 

 Newberry Library, University of Illinois Library, Missouri Historical 

 Society, and Wisconsin State Historical Society. The sets were sold 

 at the cost of photographic work and printing, no charge being made 

 for the supervision in Seville and in Washington on behalf of the 

 Carnegie Institution, nor for the elaborate calendar which accompanied 

 each set as a table of contents. As the Department possesses the 



