Scope and Contents
Table of Contents. A table of contents has
been prepared for each volume. The entry for each file date contains all of the
following information, if available:
- Type of document.
- Name of writer of the document.
- Name of person to whom the document is directed.
- Brief summary of the contents of the document.
- Place where the document was written.
- Date of the document.
- A bracketed notation, containing an identification symbol, the
number of MS pages and the number of printed pages of translation.
- Page number on which the translation begins in the volume.
When the volume contains translations of expedientes or other multiple file units, the table of
contents will contain principal entries followed by detailed subentries.
Glossary. Following the last page of
translation the reader will find an annotated list of words and phrases for
which no concise English translation could be found. The glossary to a
particular volume contains only those words and phrases not adequately defined
in the major contemporary dictionaries of the English language. Words listed as
foreign in the dictionary are italicized in the translations; they may or may
not appear in the glossary to the volume, depending on whether the definition
in the dictionary is adequate for the case at hand.
Uncommon symbols appearing in the translations are also listed and
defined in the glossary to a volume.
Index. The final section of each volume
contains an index to names (including Indian tribes) and places mentioned in
the text of the volume.
Master Index. A master index was
maintained of names (persons, places, Indian tribes) appearing in the volumes
of translation through volume 159.