The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 349
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The Literature of California History
low are intended only as an indication of some of the widely known
groups of documentary sources.
A. Guides to manuscript materials.
1. Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Guide to materials for, the history
of the United 8'ales in the principal arch ives of Mexico.
(Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication no.
16'3. Papers of the Department of historical research.)
Washington. 1913.
While this work is of interest to students of United States his-
tory as a whole, it contains references to such enormous stores of
California materials that it cannot be omitted here. Professor
Bolton combed the archives of Mexico, City and other parts of the
Mexican republic, and neglected no opportunity to include large
collections of manuscripts about California in his report. In all,
284 bundles of the manuscripts cited in the Guide deal wholly or
largely with the Californias. The description is general for large
groups of materials, rather than detailed, item by item.
2. Chapman, Charles Edward. Catalogue of materials in the
Archivo General de Indias for the history of the Pacific
coast and the American southwest. (University of Cali-
fornia, Publications in history, v. VIII.) Berkeley. 1919.
This contains over 6000 items of manuscript material, repre-
senting about 25,000 separate documents, arranged chronologically,
and described both as to technical characteristics and as to con-
tent. About two-thirds, of the materials bear upon the C'alifornias.
3. Coy, Owen Cochran. Guide to the county archives of Cali-
fornuia. California, historical survey commission, Publica-
tions, v. I.) Sacramento. 1919.
This volume deals with each of the fifty-nine counties of Cali-
fornia (including Klamath County, which no longer exists). A
brief historical and descriptive account of each archive is given,
followed by an itemized list, not of separate documents, but of
great sub-groups within the larger groupings of the county records.
Special features of this Guide are the maps of counties, recording
the almost innumerable changes in boundaries, and the valuable
introductory matter about archive science in general and the349
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