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wrote the two long chapters on the development of Maryland State govern-
ment. Each of these chapters was prepared during the author's own time. Sev-
eral of these staff members had never published in the field of Maryland studies
before, and the Archivist feels, therefore, that the training they received in
this work was of real benefit to the Hall of Records.

In Preparation

The Court Records of Prince George's County, Liber A, 1696-1699. In
my last Annual Report I advised you that after a lapse of something like ten
years, this volume, a cooperative venture of the Hall of Records Commission
and the Littleton-Griswold Committee of the American Historical Associa-
tion, had been given a new legal editor and that some progress had been made.
Latest reports from the editor, Joseph H. Smith, Esq. of New York City, in-
dicate that the work is going forward.

Good progress was made this year on Publication No. 11 of the Hall of
Records Commission, Catalogue of the Early Records of the Counties of
Maryland.

Work was begun at the very end of the fiscal year on a revised edition of
the Maryland Guide, first published in 1941 by the Writers' Project of the

WPA.

In order that the members of the Hall of Records Commission may in-
form themselves of the reception of our publications, I have included in this
report the following references to recent reviews.

Publications No. 9, Buildings of The State of Maryland at Annapolis,
which was released in June 1954, was reviewed favorably in The American
Archivist (April 1956 issue) by Helen Duprey Bullock of the National Trust
for Historic Preservation, and in The William and Mary Quarterly (July 1956
issue) by Marcus Wiffen of Colonial Williamsburg.

Publication No. 10, Calendar of Maryland State Papers Number 4, Part
3, The Red Books, appeared in August 1955. It was reviewed in the April
1956 issue of The American Archivist by John Melville Jennings, Virginia
Historical Society; and in the April 1956 issue of The American Historical
Review by Philip C. Brooks of the Federal Records Center, San Francisco.
Both reviews were highly commendatory.