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of the officials had known of its existence, nor were the volumes so
labelled or placed that one would know of its existence without opening
every one of the 176 volumes of the series they are in. The collection was
made a century ago.
The next experience set down is even more frustrating, if that can
be possible:
To illustrate the scattered condition of things I may tell you another
experience. Mixed with volumes on the correspondence of the viceroys
I found a very valuable volume of collected cedulas on the expulsion of
the Jesuits, made by the collector of the Provincias Internas documents.
I noted it in my notes as a stray volume, and called the director's atten-
tion to it. Later, when at the Biblioteca Nacional one day, I dug out of
the dust a companion to it. On my showing it to the librarian, Sr. Vigil,
he told me that they had three volumes--the series "complete"-and had
just entered it in their new printed catalogue. But an examination of the
catalogue and the volumes catalogued showed me that the three were
distinct, and were shelved on a different side of the room from the other.
This accounted for five .volumes. A little research and inquiry revealed
another volume in the Biblioteca, while I found a seventh in this unknown
section of Cddulas Reales. All but one of the eight highly valuable-in-
dispensible-volumes have now been accounted for. But no one knows
how the five volumes got out of the Archivo General.
Such things went into "the making of the Guide" and cause one
to wonder at the patience of the researcher and contribute to one's
appreciation for the job done by Bolton. For years after the publica-
tion, the Guide was not only the aid to the United States scholar, but
also something of an archival "bible" for the Mexicans themselves.
Dabbling day by day with all this rich and fascinating material,
Bolton still took time out to write a long plea to President Houston
of Texas." There was so much Texas history there, which could so ad-
mirably supplement the Bexar archives and other collections at the
University and would be so valuable for his own future research and
that of his graduate students. He needed funds and begged Houston
to try to find the means. In October he presented a formal and quite
extensive proposal, showing how for as little as a thousand dollars, he
could assemble ten to a dozen volumes of transcripts, each running to
around five hundred typed pages. His estimate was that the job could
be done for sixteen or so cents per page-transcribing, typing, and
verifying each document with the original. Two $500 appropriations
were made, the first in January and the supplement in February,
l8Bolton to D. F. Houston, August 11, 1907, in "Bolton Correspondence: OUT," Ban-
croft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
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