^{page 57 note 1} I remember a conversation with Mr. Bryce on the subject of the disposal of certain private and confidential State papers, followed by a communication in which he expressed his conviction that such papers should be preserved and made available to historians at the discretion of a public trustee.

^{page 58 note 1} Professor Hull's survey of the Island parishes is very interesting, and Miss French's experience of local records in the Eastern States helps to illustrate Professor Oliver, Paper in History, April, 1927.Google Scholar

^{page 59 note 1} Since these remarks were made the 1932 Reports of the Library of Congress and of the Carnegie Institution have been published.

^{page 60 note 1} A characteristic note in Dr. Jameson's report for 1931 contains the suggestion that whenever a family archive is divided among coheirs, photostat reproductions should be taken of the whole collection, since the risk of loss would be multiplied by such partitions, a contingency which has, unfortunately, become a common incident in the modern archivist's experience.

^{page 62 note 1} E.g. Lists of Theses.

^{page 62 note 2} Letters were received from Professor A. F. Pollard, Miss E. Jeffries Davis, Professor Harold Temperley, Professor R. H. Tawney and Mr. J. M. R. Butler. In a written communication, Mrs. T. F. Tout described the conditions of research in the British manorial documents acquired by the Huntington Library, as seen in 1928 by Professor Tout, and this subject has been referred to by Sir W. H. Beveridge and the Opener (cf. Bulletin of the H.L., No. 2 and Fifth Report of the Director of the Huntington Library, etc., 1931–2.

^{page 63 note 1} Cf. H. Hall, Studies in Official Documents, p. 148, and Formula Book, Vol. I, pp. 114–16.

^{page 65 note 1} Cf. Miss K. Walpole in Trans. R. Hist. S., 4th S., Vol. XIV.

^{page 68 note 1} In a written communication, Professor Bellot suggests that the largest body of material for American History in this country, apart from Anglo-American relations, is probably the British Museum Collection of Congressional debates and papers. For native American collections prior to 1783, he suggests reference to Greene and Morris, Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History, 1600–1800, and the Library of Congress Lists referred to by the Opener.