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Herbert E. Bolton: His Guide in the Making 45
dicates that he had worked through the Californias, the Misiones, and
was well into the Correspondencia de los Virreyes. Generally at this
time, as he explained to Frederick, he spent his mornings at the AGN
and then transferred in the afternoons to the Museo or to the Bib-
lioteca Nacional:
I am over my ears in work. I get to the Archivo General at 7:30 A.M.
and leave at i:3o P.M. Every other afternoon I go either to the Museo
Nacional or the Biblioteca Nacional to work on the MS collections there.
In the former I can remain until 6, in the latter until 8 P.M. The other
afternoons I remain at home to arrange my notes and catch up with myself
generally. Whatever time I have, which is found mainly on Sundays and
nights, which are short after long days, I spend in work on the Handbook
of the Indians or my Indian history. My correspondence with the Carnegie
and the Smithsonian is considerable[;] besides I have to keep preparing
the way for future work in the archives."
The materials in the Biblioteca were valuable, but in such disarray
that not even the Mexicans knew precisely what they had. Still he
could report having turned up such California pieces of importance
as original letters from Pal6u, Serra, Crespi, and Garces. However, his
prize find was the lost diary of Padre Eusebio Kino, the "Favores Ce-
lestiales"-this was his introduction to the man who would become
his "favorite Black Robe." He informed Jameson that he hoped to
finish the major work in the AGN by the end of September.
The report for September indicates that he was busy. He had run
through fifteen secciones, some of them yielding much material for
United States history, and others almost none." In the draft for this
September report, but marked "not sent," Bolton related the follow-
ing not untypical experiences:
To illustrate the necessity of a personal examination of everything, I
may state my experience with the section of Reales Cedulas y Ordenes.
I worked most of the time for several days, perhaps ten, on the series
downstairs-the only one that I had seen or heard of-when I discovered
another on the second floor. I then made inquiry as to its nature and its
relation to the other, and was told that it consisted of registers or copies
of the others. An examination of each volume showed me that this was
only partly true, and resulted in my discovery of what would have saved
me most of ten days spent on the other series-namely, an admirable five
volume collection of selected duplicate cedulas, dealing with the Provincias
Internas, well indexed and classified by province. It was just what I
needed, giving me in five volumes what I had sought in 150, but none
"6Bolton to F. E. Bolton, August 18, 19go7.
17Bolton to Jameson, September o30, 1907.
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