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should be noted that the American manuscripts in the Ubraries of Lon- 

 don, Oxford, Cambridge, and Rome, four of the five European cities 

 containing the greatest number of such manuscripts, have already been 

 listed in publications of the Department, namely, in Andrews and 

 Davenport's ''Guide" for the libraries of London, Oxford, and Cam- 

 bridge, and in Mr. Fish's volume on Roman and other Italian archives, 

 while Mr. Leland's first volume will cover the numerous volumes in 

 the libraries of Paris. 



TEXTUAL PUBLICATIONS OF DOCUMENTS. 



Miss Davenport has been able to make ready for publication eight 

 more treaties, 1667-1670, for the second volume of her ''European 

 Treaties bearing on the History of the United States." 



Dr. Burnett has advanced the final preparation of the manuscript 

 of his "Letters of Members of the Continental Congress" to the end of 

 the year 1782, nearly completing the fourth volume. The systematic 

 alteration of the cross-references in footnotes, alluded to in the last 

 annual report, has been carried through volume II. Meantime, the 

 first volume, running from the beginning of Congress in 1774 to July 4, 

 1776, has been set up by the printer and read in galley-proof. The 

 work will consist of six volumes. 



In the series of volumes which are being prepared by Dr. Stock, the 

 "Proceedings and Debates of Parliament respecting North America," 

 the work at present going on is that of annotating the texts, gathered 

 together long since. This work of annotation Dr. Stock has now car- 

 ried to the end of the year 1645. Meanwhile, however, a large number 

 of petitions to Parliament, 1628-1645, has been obtained from the 

 manuscripts of the House of Lords, and the bringing of these into the 

 series has entailed much additional labor. Dr. Stock has also been 

 compelled to spend no small part of his time in clearing off certain pieces 

 of work for the National Board for Historical Service which fell to him 

 as its assistant secretary and which survived the dissolution of that 

 body. 



Miss Donnan, in spite of her college duties and of those which, as 

 mentioned in a previous paragraph, she kindly undertook in substitu- 

 tion for Miss Galbraith, has found tune to advance a little her collection 

 of documents and narratives illustrating the history of the African 

 slave trade and the importation of slaves into English America. The 

 chief piece of such vfork has been the examination of the files of the 

 Georgia Gazette of the colonial period. Little further progress can, 

 however, be made toward the completion of this volume until Miss 

 Donnan is able (it is hoped during the summer of 1921) to investigate 

 the materials for her subject in the British Museum and the Public 

 Record Office. 



