Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to Materials for American History in the Libraries and Archives of Paris, Vol. 1: Libraries The collections of the De'partement a'es Manuscrits, which in the making of this book have been explored with great care, contain a very large number of documents relating to America, some of first importance, as will be seen from the detailed lists that have been compiled and are here printed. 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.