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This discovery aroused a flurry of interest in this controversial figure of
the early American West, and the hope was awakened that perhaps
at long last some key information might come to light on the un-
resolved mystery-What were Wilkinson's instructions to his agent,
as he sent him off to the West? Before the papers got into the July
(19o8) number of the AHR, Bolton, Jameson, and Isaac J. Cox, al-
ready becoming the authority on the Louisiana-New Spain frontier,
all got into the act.
At the end of this November report Bolton asked Jameson to find
out what he could from the Mexican Embassy in Washington con-
cerning the archives at Chihuahua, where Bolton hoped to find a great
body of materials on the Provincias Internas, more than even the
ample store found at the capital. Inquiries brought little information,
save the fact that the Chihuahua materials had been moved to Santa
Barbara in the days of Governor E. C. Creel; they had been supposedly
locked up, but when the Chihuahua Historical Commission had looked
for them there many of the older pieces had disappeared. Sr. Salado
Alvarez of the Embassy expressed the opinion that some of them might
have found their way into Bancroft's collection." Accordingly, Bolton
did not return from Madison via Chihuahua; instead, he looked in
at Austin.
Bolton went to Madison and delivered his paper. Subsequently it
was published in the April (19o8) number of the AHR, "Material for
Southwestern History in the Central Archives of Mexico." By this time
there was little doubt as to who was the authority in this new field
opening up.
A December, 1907, letter from Jameson brought a sort of early
Christmas present. The Carnegie Board of Trustees, in their December
meeting, had not only voted funds to see the project through to com-
pletion, they had raised the monthly payment to Bolton-he would get
$2oo for December and after the first of the year $225 monthly,
through September. This increase was welcome, for Bolton was finding
living expenses high. Jameson also mentioned that the Trustees had
approved the proposal to search the Italian archives; Fish of Wisconsin
was to join the ranks of the Carnegie "missionaries."
Herbert's letters to Frederick during these Mexican months give
interesting news bits other than information about the Guide. For
instance, back in August, shortly after his arrival in Mexico, Herbert
had been contacted about the presidency of a new State Normal to
"2Jameson to Bolton, December 28, 1907.
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