European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies, Vol. 3: 1698-1715 SO long as she was able to continue work, Miss Davenport struggled vali antly to finish the manuscript of this volume. She succeeded in completing all that was most essential - her personal studies, careful in the highest degree, of the diplomatic manoeuvres and negotiations that accompanied and ended the War of the Spanish Succession, her texts, introductions, bibliographies, and notes for the treaties from 1698 well into the notable year 1713, and especially for the complicated nexus of treaties that centre around the name of Utrecht. These, she felt, were so connected one with another that there was no stopping-place to her labors till all this ground had been traversed. Essentially, this was done, for though her introductions and notes to the final documents here numbered 102-107 would have contained much that would have been of value, her explanations of the treaties immediately preceding present most of what is necessary for an understanding of those that follow. The connection of these last six treaties with those which immediately precede is so close that it seemed indispensable to include them in the volume, however imperfect the form in which they must be presented. It fell to the undersigned, who at the time of Miss Davenport's death was director Of that department of the Carnegie Institution in which she labored, to give to the manuscript Of the volume its final preparation for the press. So far as her work had gone, that is, through Document 101, this meant only slight adjust ments and revisions. As to the remaining six pieces, I have had neither the learning nor the time to deal with them as Miss Davenport would have done. The texts are presented, from photographs of originals, and translations, of such of the texts as are not French, have been supplied, it being assumed, as in the case of the earlier volumes, that students of diplomatic history read French. It has been a gratification, though a sad one, to have any part in completing Miss Davenport's work, a monument of scholarship, which, it is hoped, will long keep alive the memory of a woman of remarkable learning, studious, patient, courageous, and devoted to high ideals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.