Introductory Note to Volume II vii 
A very large amount of material from the archives of the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been copied, chiefly for the 
Library of Congress, and important selections of documents 
have also been published. A full account of such collections 
of copies and of published documents will be found in the 
indispensable Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United 
States 1775 - 1921 by Samuel Flagg Bemis and Grace Gardner 
Griffin, published by the Library of Congress (U. S. Government 
Printing Office, 1935), which the user of this volume should 
have always at hand. 
Reference should also be had to the General Preface in 
Volume I of the present Guide , in which the chief printed 
collections of documents are noted. 
All the notes taken in Paris on which this volume is 
based have been deposited with the Library of Congress, in 
the Division of Manuscripts, and are available to those who 
wish to seek information beyond what is offered in these pages, 
as are also the original notes on the material in the libraries 
of Paris, described in Volume I. 
While the principal author of this volume is, as has 
already been noted, Dr. John J". Meng, for he has actually 
written the text as it now stands, it is only fair to associate 
with Dr. Meng and the general editor, Monsieur Abel Doysie, 
whose faithful and intelligent services provided a large part 
of the original notes on which the following pages are based. 
Finally, grateful acknowledgment is due to Mrs. W. H. 
Harrison, Editor of the Division of Historical Research of the 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, who supervised the editing 
