EMBASSIES AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS OF FOREIGN 
GOVERNMENTS AT ROME. 
Embassy records are the most closely guarded of all classes of public docu¬ 
ments, and the great majority of them should be duplicated in the home ar¬ 
chives of the governments represented. No special effort was made, therefore, 
to exhaustively describe this material, but such information as was obtained 
on these collections, actual or suppositious, relating to the United States and 
Canada, is here given, with a few notes on religious institutions maintained 
at Rome by France and Spain. 
ARCHIVES OF THE AMERICAN LEGATION. 
The archives of the American legation are preserved at the Embassy on the 
Piazza San Bernardo. Those for the mission to the present kingdom of Italy, 
established in i860, are complete, and are preserved for current use in the 
offices of the ambassador and the first secretary. Permission to examine them 
can be obtained only from the Department of State at Washington. Mr. 
H. Nelson Gay has made them the foundation of several interesting studies 1 
preparatory to his forthcoming general work on the relations of the United 
States and Italy. The series into which they are divided are as follows: 
Instructions from the Secretary of State. April 17, i860, to May 31, 1908. 
39 volumes. 
Dispatches to the Secretary of State. Apr. 13, 1861, to June 18, 1907. 27 
volumes. 
Notes to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Jan. 29, 1861, to Jan. 2, 1908. 
15 volumes. 
Notes from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and from the prefect of the 
palace. May 25, 1861, to Dec. 31, 1908. 24 volumes. 
Letters to consuls and others. Jan. 21, 1861, to Apr. 14, 1905. 1 volume. 
Letters from consuls and others. Jan. 1, 1861, to Jan. 1, 1905. 2 volumes. 
Register of miscellany; marriages; “ nulla acta ”; formulas for legislative 
acts; extradition of criminals; etc. 1871-1882. 1 volume. 
Register of letters sent, and copies of translations forwarded, to the Depart¬ 
ment of State. 1885-1889. 1 volume. 
Record-book of letters and of publications of the Italian government re¬ 
ceived. 1886-1890. 1 volume. 
Journal of letters received from the Department of State and from the For¬ 
eign Office. 1894-1904. 1 volume. 
Newspaper clippings. July, 1900, to Apr., 1903. 1 volume. 
Letter-book with copies of miscellaneous letters. 1887-1890. 
There are also a few volumes belonging to earlier missions to the various 
governments of Italy, as follows: 
Sardinia. Diplomatic and other correspondence of the United States lega¬ 
tion to Sardinia. Sept. 4, 1840, to July, 1861. 13 volumes. 
Passport record of the legation. 1841-1863. 2 volumes. 
Journal of the legation. Apr., 1848, to Aug., 1850. 1 volume. 
X “Le Relazioni fra ITtalia e gli Stati Uniti ”, in Nuova Antologia, 16 Febbrajo, 1907, 
pp. 15; Relazioni fra gli Stati Uniti e Vltalia negli anni 1847-1871, pt. I. (Turin, 1907, 
PP- 94). 
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