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Herbert E. Bolton: His Guide in the Making
that all our experience has been that the putting of such a guide into
final form consumes much more time than the worker supposes when
he begins, and that it is unsafe to predict early completion, especially if
one resumes teaching."
The late months of 19o8 were busy ones. There was much cor-
respondence with Professor E. D. Adams about the Stanford po-
sition, and many hours of weighing the pros and cons of the move,
before he finally wrote to Frederick, on the day after Christmas:
"The deed is done. I this morning telegraphed my acceptance of
the place at Stanford."
Arthur Clark was getting anxious to have the Mezibres manu-
script, reminding Bolton that it was long overdue-through the years
Arthur was to have his troubles with Bolton punctuality. James A.
Robertson was exchanging letters with him about the proposed
"Documentary Sources of United States History from the Archives
of Mexico." This was a grandiose project in which Clark was very
much interested, especially since there was the possibility of pairing
such a series with one of documentary sources from Spanish archives,
for which Robertson would be primarily responsible. And Bolton
had to report to President Mezes on the state of the University of
Texas manuscript-copying operation in Mexico. All these took time,
and there were classes and seminars, too. Result: the Guide dragged.
On March 27, 1909, Jameson wrote that he hoped that Bolton
could have the manuscript to him before he set out for his summer
in Maine-Jameson was planning to do some preliminary editorial
work on it during those weeks. But nothing came.
Jameson, aware that Bolton was moving to Palo Alto, gave him
a bit of time. But, in a note on August 21, he suggested that Bolton
impress on the powers at Stanford that his commitment to the Guide
be something taken into consideration when assigning his new duties.
Then more months went by. With a shade of irritation showing
"between the lines," Jameson wrote again on May 14, 1910, "I
should be very much obliged if you would give me some indication
as to when you are likely to finish and turn over to me your report
on the Mexican archives."
Really, Bolton had not forgotten; he was at work. Toward the
end of the summer, in mid-September, 1910, he bundled his hun-
dreds of pages with their thousands of notations into an express
package and sent it off to Washington.
"8Jameson to Bolton, May 13, 19o8.
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