Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents

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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents: Relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes De Cuba, Deposited in the Archivo General De Indias at SevilleMost of the volumes relating to foreign archives, hitherto prepared by the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washing ton, have been summary surveys or inventories of the materials for American history, or the history of the United States, contained in the particular archives treated. The present volume belongs to a different class, and of that class it is the first to be issued by the Institution. Therefore some explanation of its relation to the general plans of the Department is appropriate.In the task of making more available to students of American history the vast store)s of materials for that history which are contained in foreign archives, there are three natural stages or processes.First, there is the summary survey or inventory, in which large masses of papers are represented by brief and often general descriptions, without much effort to enter into details respecting individual volumes or papers.A second stage is reached when, a summary survey of the contents of an archive having been already supplied, at certain portion or subdivision of it is selected for fuller description. The type of book usually produced by this procedure is that of the calendar, in which each separate letter or other docu ment receives an entry of a line or more, indicating its date, place of origin, author, recipient, title, or such details, with perhaps some brief statement of its contents.The third stage of procedure is to select a set or series of documents having a high value for some particular purpose of history, and to print them at full length.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.