A Cycle of Adams Letters 1861-1865
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 2-volume set. Volume I: xiv, [2], 298, [2] pages; Volume II: [8], 281, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Worthington Chauncey Ford (February 15, 1858 ? March 7, 1941) was an American historian and editor of a number of collections of documents from early American history. He served in a variety of government positions: first, as the chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Department of State, from 1885?1889, then at the U.S. Department of Treasury, 1893?1898, then as chief of the manuscripts division at the Library of Congress from 1902?1908. He also served as Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University from 1917?1922. Ford was best known for his edited collections of a number of Founding Fathers documents. He also edited collections of the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and other figures in early American history. Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 ? November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. He was a son of President John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams, about whom he wrote a major biography. Adams served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate before running unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former president Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War, Adams served as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he played a key role in keeping the British government neutral and not diplomatically recognizing the Confederacy. Adams became an overseer of Harvard University and built Adams National Historical Park, a library in Quincy, Massachusetts honoring his father. He became U.S. minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's (Britain), a post previously held by his father and grandfather, from 1861 to 1868. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Henry Adams, Ambrose Burnside, Richard Henry Dana, Civil War, George McClellan, Ulysses Grant, Joseph Hooker, George Gordon Meade, William Seward, John Russell, Charles Sumner
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