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British Museum. Lansdowne MSS. Selections from

194 Miscellaneous State Papers.

733 Reports of Public Accounts, 1712.
885 Heraldic and Political Miscellanies.
Selections from

Stowe MSS.

186 State Papers, 1631-1727.

921 W. Indian Trade, 1770-1805. Harleian MSS. Selections from

7001 Original Letters of State, Warrants, etc., 1633-1724. Egerton MSS. Selections from

2650 Family of Barrington Correspondence, Vol. VII, 1675

1688.

2659 Correspondence of the Family of Hutchinson, Vol. I, 1741-1783.

Sloane MSS.

Selections from

2179 Political Tracts.

2448 Papers relating to the Navy and Forts.

2717

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

2723 Political and Historical Miscellanies, XVII Cent.

2902 Papers concerning Trade, Taxes, etc., collected by A. Hill; chiefly 1697-1700.

3324 Papers on Natural Curiosities, etc.

Public Record Office:

Vol. 2.

Colonial Office, Class 5. [Under the reclassification now in prog

ress in the Public Record Office, this new series is being made up chiefly

from the old "America and West In-
dies' series.]

Vol. 1. Miscellaneous papers, 1670-1697. [Partly A W I 601]
Vol. 3. Miscellaneous papers, 1702-1710. [Partly AW I 601]
Vol. 4. Plantations General, 1711-1732. [A WI 602]
Vol. 5. Representation from Commissioners of Trade and Plan-
tations, and miscellaneous papers; 1733-1748.
[A W I 603]

Vol. 6. Plantations General, 1749-1754. [A W I 604]

Vol. 7. Miscellaneous papers, 1755-1787. [To old A W I 605 have recently (1909) been added other papers, some being from old series "Domestic George III."]

Vol. 8. Plantations General, 1775-1783, and one or two papers of a later date. [A W I 606 and 681]

Vol. 10. New Hampshire, 1711-1752; Massachusetts Bay, 1710–1740; Rhode Island, 1709–1742. [A W I 5] Vol. 65. Plantations General, 1760-1764. [A W I 268]

Vol. 66. Plantations General, 1765-1766.

Vol. 67. Plantations General, 1766-1767.

[A W I 269]

[A W I 270]

Vol. 68. Plantations General, 1767. [A W I 271]

Vol. 107. Military, America, 1782, Sir G. Carleton. [A WI

145].

Public Record Office.

Colonial Office, Class 5.

Vol. 108. Military, No. Amer. 1783. Sir G. Carleton. [A WI

146]

Vol. 109. Military, No. Amer. 1783. Sir G. Carleton. [AWI

147]

Vol. 110. Military, No. Amer. 1783. Sir G. Carleton. [AWI

148]

Vol. III. Military, No. Amer. 1783. [A W I 149]

Vol. 178. America, Commissioners for restoring Peace, 1779-
1782. [A W I 302]

Vol. 179. Copies of Correspondence, 1777-1778, delivered into
the office by Lt. Gen. Burgoyne. [A W I 159]
Vol. 182. Military; Promiscuous; No. Amer., 1779-1780. [A
WI 155]

Vol. 183. Military; Promiscuous; 1779-1781. No. Amer. [A
W I 156]

Vol. 184. Military; Promiscuous; No. Amer. 1781. [A W I

157]

Vol. 186. Naval Commanders, No. Amer. 1782-1783. [A WI

160]

Vol. 188. Commissions and Instructions to Governors, 1702

1703.

Vol. 189. Plantations, 1708-1720.

Vol. 190. Plantations, 1714-1716. Stanhope. Methuen.

Vol. 191. Plantations, 1720-1723.

Vol. 192. Plantations, 1725-1731.

Vol. 193. Plantations, 1726–1728.

Vol. 194. Plantations, 1727-1729.

Vol. 197. Plantations, 1738. Duke of Newcastle.

Bodleian Library, Oxford:

Rawlinson MSS. C 710.

IV. TRANSCRIPTS FROM FOREIGN ARCHIVES RELATING TO AMERICAN HISTORY UP TO 1784 IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The following is a description of the contents and scope of the transcripts of manuscript material relative to the American colonies in the English archives, and of the Stevens Catalogue Index of Manuscripts, and the Stevens Facsimiles and Transcripts now contained in the Division of Manuscripts.

THE B. F. STEVENS PAPERS

A general description of the Stevens Catalogue Index is given in the Report of the Librarian of Congress for 1906, p. 27 et seq. It was acquired in 1905 and comprises 180 volumes, divided into three sections: The Catalogue, 50 volumes; the Chronological Index, 100 volumes; and the

Alphabetical Index, 30 volumes. It begins with year 1763, when the Treaty of Paris gave Great Britain undisputed title to the northwestern territory in America, and ends with 1784, when the Treaty of Peace was ratified, acknowledging American independence.

The papers listed are from the following sources:

1. The Public Record Office

Colonial Office Records;

America and West Indies,
Board of Trade,

Colonial Correspondence.

Admiralty Records;

Admirals' despatches,

Captains' letters,

Secretary of State's letters,

Orders and Instructions,

Navy Lists.

Foreign Office Records;

France,

Holland,

German States,

Spain,

Prussia.

Home Office Records;

State Papers, Domestic.

Admiralty (Home Office).

War Office Records;

Original Correspondence.

2. Miscellaneous collections

Royal Institution, American Manuscripts.
Manuscripts of the Marquess of Abergavenny;

of the Earl of Carlisle;

of the Earl of Dartmouth;

of the Marquess of Lansdowne;

of Lord Auckland (now in the British Museum); Mrs. Sackville's Manuscripts.

British Museum Manuscripts:

King's Manuscripts,

Egerton Manuscripts,

Additional Manuscripts.

Tower of London Manuscripts. (a few)

Mr. Stevens's private collection. (a few)

3. The Paris Archives

Archives des Affaires Étrangères.

Archives de la Marine B Campagnes.

Archives de la Guerre.

Archives Coloniales, Louisiane.

Archives Nationales.

4. Holland; The Hague

Rijks Archief.

Huis Archief.

5. Spanish Archives—

Archivo General Central, Alcalá de Henáres.

Archivo de Indias, Seville.

Archivo del Reino, Simancas.

The Catalogue contains the titles of documents bearing on America as they are (or were) arranged in the original archives.

The Chronological Index contains the title of each document, in chronological order, with a brief abstract of its contents and a statement of its location.

The Alphabetical Index is of the names of writers and receivers of documents; of names of places; and, less fully, of subjects and the nature of documents, with a statement of the date of each document and in what archives it is to be found.

The investigator who is studying a certain period should consult the Chronological Index; one searching för information concerning a particular incident, person, or locality should consult the Alphabetical Index first and then the Chronological Index.

Since the catalogue was made, there has been an alteration in the classification and numbering of the archives in the Public Record Office. A volume was added to the catalogue giving the old numbers and the new so far as the new arrangement had gone. Therefore when a Public Record Office document is selected from the catalogue this additional volume should always be consulted if the location of the document is desired.

The Chronological Catalogue indicates whenever a document is to be found in the

Stevens Facsimiles,

The Peace Transcripts,

The French Alliance Transcripts, or

The Library of Congress Transcripts.

I

The B. F. Stevens Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives relating to America, 1773–1783, with Descriptions, Editorial Notes, Collations, References and Translations. Issued only to Subscribers at 4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, London, 1889, is a publication of which two hundred copies were issued and the plates destroyed, the first volume appearing in 1889 and the last in 1898, there being twenty-five volumes, the last being the narrative conclusion, lists of documents and index.

The documents facsimiled for 1773 are only 5; 2 for 1774; very few for 1782 and 1783, and few for 1781; the great bulk being for 1777, 1778, and 1779. The total number of documents is 2,107, being about 10,500 foolscap folios. They are selected from the Public Record Office, Auckland Manuscripts at King's College, Carlisle Manuscripts at Castle Howard, Royal Institution, Archives des Affaires Étrangères at Paris, Dartmouth, Abergavenny, and Tower of London Manuscripts, and a few of Mr. Stevens's private collection.

The arrangement is not chronological, nor strictly by subjects, but the index and lists in the final volume render it easy to find any document.

The facsimiles are of the secret correspondence of the British Government with its political agents relative to the colonies; of the Royal and Parliamentary Commission of 1778, and the conciliatory bills; a series of Silas Deane's letters and memoirs to the French Government; letters of Dubourg, Beaumarchais, Gérard, and Vergennes; private letters of the loyalist Judge William Smith to Eden; Sir Henry Clinton's letters to Eden; papers relative to the capture and imprisonment of Henry Laurens; correspondence of Lord Stormont; papers bearing on Arthur Lee and Sayre at Berlin; unofficial correspondence of Lafayette with Vergennes; papers relative to the siege of Savannah in 1779; and correspondence of Ambrose Serle.

II

The Peace Transcripts.-These are transcripts relating to the negotiations for peace and the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, dating from 1782 to 1784. The number of the documents copied is about 1,100; the number of folios about 5,240. They are from

Shelburne Manuscripts;

Public Record Office, foreign correspondence;
Archives des Affaires Étrangères, Paris;

Rijks Archief, Holland.

The correspondence is between

Franklin and Rayneval, Vergennes and Oswald;

Vergennes and La Vauguyon, Montmorin, Grenville and d'Aranda;

Shelburne and Arthur Lee, Oswald and Carleton;

Laurens and Franklin;

Charles James Fox and Franklin, Grenville and Vergennes·

Lerchenberg and Mlle. Ex;

Grantham and Fitzherbert, Townshend and Oswald;

Strachey, Napean and Townshend;

Washington and the President of Congress;

Manchester, Fox and d'Aranda;

Hartley, Fox and Carmarthen.

The States General of Holland, Memoranda;

Memoranda of Peace Conferences;

Drafts of Treaties;

There is a separate list of the papers and they are chronologically arranged. The eleven documents dating after 1783 are not included in the Stevens Index Catalogue.

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