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"This morning I am going to venture into the Archivo General. It is
a bold venture but I have the nerve." Back in Austin, he wrote Fred-
erick that his excursion had been highly profitable; he went on, "It
will keep me in powder for shooting off historical fire works most of
the year. I shall get one or two articles in the October publications.""
The October number of the Quarterly carried the first part of his
"Some Materials for Southwestern History in the Archivo General de
Mexico." He was on his way. Another piece appeared in the January,
1903, number." His Texas series would grow with the passing years.
Meanwhile, he was translating documents for The Philippine Islands,
by E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson, and his ultimate involvement with
the Bureau of American Ethnology's Handbook of American Indians
North of Mexico was developing through communications with
W. H. Holmes regarding the Texas Indians. In 1904 he and his
colleague, Eugene Campbell Barker, brought out their With the
Makers of Texas: A Source Reader in Texas History, which quickly
won wide and enthusiastic acceptance in the Texas schools.
Despite certain official listings to the contrary, Jameson had made
no mistake. Young Bolton was not only a worker; he was gaining a
name in Southwestern history; and he appeared to a greater degree
than any other American to know his way around the Mexican
archives.
Jameson's letter of January 4, 19o6, was a long one. After extending
the invitation, he went on with a series of questions: when would
Bolton be able to start on the project; what archives outside of Mexico
City would be worth careful investigation; what would be the ex-
penses and what the compensation expected; and, finally, when, within
the next weeks, could Bolton come to Washington to talk over and
lay out the job in greater detail?
On January 11 Bolton sent back a first acknowledgment of Jame-
son's letter: "Let me say that I appreciate the confidence which this
implies, in proportion as I realize the importance, the magnitude, and
the difficulties of the undertaking." He went on to note that it is most
encouraging to see such a project sponsored by the Carnegie Institu-
tion, for this fact would ensure a continuity which private or local
funding could not promise.'
5Ibid., September io, 1902.
O"Some Materials for Southwestern History in the Archivo General de Mexico,"
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, VI (October, 1902), 103-112; "Tienda
de Cuervo's Ynspeccion of Laredo. 1757," ibid., VI (January, 1903), 187-203.
"Herbert E. Bolton to J. Franklin Jameson, January 11, 1906. All letters from Bolton
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