ARTICLES

James F. Baldwin The Privy Council of the Time of Richard II. 1

W. B. MUNRO The Office of Inlendant in New France. . 15

J. Holland Rose Canning and the Spanish Patriots in 1S08 . 39

Frederic L. Paxson The Territory of Colorado • • • • 53

Walter F. McCaleb The Organization of the Post-Office Department of the Confederacy. .... 66

DOCUMENTS— Letters of Jefferson to Marbois, 17S1, 1783; Journal of John Mair, 1791 ; Project of Latin- American Confederation, 1856; Letter of Stephen R. Mallory, 1861 ; Letter of Grant to his Father, on the Capture of Vicksburg, 1863 75

REVIEWS OF BOOKS 110

COMMUNICATIONS 183

NOTES AND NEWS 186

Number 2. January, 1907.

ARTICLES

Simeon E. Baldwin Religion Still the Key to History 219

Paul Mantoux French Reports of British Parliamentary Debates in the Eighteenth Century 244

Henry Vignaud Proof that Columbus was Born in 145 1 ; A New Document 270

Henry L. Janes The Black Warrior Affair 280

A British Officer The Literature of the South African War, 1899-1902 299

DOCUMENTS—Letters of Thomas Newe from South Carolina, 1682 ; Narrative of a Voyage to Maryland, 1705-1706; Intercepted Letters of Virginian Tories, 1775; Letter of John Marshall to James Wilkinson, 1787; Gilman v. McClary: A New Hampshire Case of 1791. 322

REVIEWS OF BOOKS 351

NOTES AND NEWS 441