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Report of the Librarian of Congress for 1921
Report of the Librarian of Congress for 1921 Author:Library of Congress General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Appendix IV REPORT ON TRANSCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS FROM FRENCH ARCHIVES By Waldo G. Leland The programme of transcribing documents in the public archives and collections of historical manuscripts of France falls into three parts, corresponding to the three periods of relations between France and America. First, documents relating to the French regime in America, from the earliest settlements in 1604 to the transfer of Louisiana to Spanish rule in 1767. Second, material relating to French participation in the American Revolution. Third, documents bearing upon the political and economic relations between France and the United States from 1783 to the period at which the archives are closed to historical investigation (at present, 1848, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and about 1870 in other depositories). Fortheexecutionofsuchaprogrammethefirstessentialisasystematic Survey of the and inclusive survey of French archives and manuscript collections. Such a survey has already been carried nearly to completion under my ' direction, for the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and along with it I have supervised the compilation of a calendar of documents in French depositories relating to the history of the Mississippi Valley, undertaken as a cooperative enterprise of the historical agencies of that region. The second essential is the selection of the documents to be copied, Selection taking into consideration: (i) Documents already published or readily available in America in the form of manuscript copies; (2) enterprises of transcription carried on by other a...« less