A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS 1861-1865 CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS - U.S. MINISTER TO THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE CIVIL WAR EDITED BY WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD With Illustrations Complete, Two-Volume Book Set FIRST EDITION FINE CONDITION Original Dust Covers Protected in Clear, Brodart Covers PRINTED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK, IN 1920 Charles Francis Adams, favored son of John Quincy Adams and grandson to President John Adams, served as the U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom during the American Civil War. Prior to joining the Lincoln Administration in 1861, he had served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate, and run unsuccessfully as Vice President for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848. Reporting as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom in May of 1861, Adams reached it only to be met by the Queen’s proclamation recognizing the South and expressing sympathy for it. His efforts played a key role in keeping Britain neutral while Southern agents were trying to achieve foreign recognition for the Confederacy. This required him to conduct dialogue with both sides and to monitor the British connections related to the supply of commerce to the South for war purposes. This extraordinary collection of letters from the Civil War provide excellent inside into his role in these and other matters. "The series of letters printed in these volumes, individual in themselves, make an almost unique combination. The time of writing, the crisis through which not only the nation but republican institutions were passing, the inheritance and position of the writers, and the personal characteristics of each as shown in the letters and as developed in later days, unite to give interest to the subjects treated and the manner of presentation. They are family letters, written in all the freedom of family intercourse; but they are much more than family letters, for the description of social conditions, the discussion of public questions, and the wide relations held by the writers make them a contribution to the social, military and diplomatic history of the War of Secession unequaled in extent and concentrated interest…." – From the Introduction THIS BOOK SET IS IN FINE CONDITION This original, first edition book set is in excellent condition. The books are fine and come protected in the original, paper dust jackets (uncommon) that have light edge wear and are protected in clear, Brodart covers. The books are sharp, bright and clean. They have solid binding throughout. The spine lettering remains bright and sharp. The exteriors have no bumping, rubbing or edge wear. The pages are clean and the interiors are in fine condition. There isn’t a mark in the book set; the books have no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library set. The books contain frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards. The books have no looseness or lean. Volume I has 298 pages; Volume II has 281 pages. An excellent condition, first edition, complete, two-volume book set in the original dust jackets that are protected in clear, Brodart covers.
 A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS
1861-1865

CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS - U.S. MINISTER TO THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE CIVIL WAR

EDITED BY WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD
With Illustrations

Complete, Two-Volume Book Set

FIRST EDITION
FINE CONDITION
Original Dust Covers Protected in Clear, Brodart Covers
 
PRINTED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK, IN 1920
 
Charles Francis Adams, favored son of John Quincy Adams and grandson to President John Adams, served as the U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom during the American Civil War. Prior to joining the Lincoln Administration in 1861, he had served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate, and run unsuccessfully as Vice President for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848.
 
Reporting as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom in May of 1861, Adams reached it only to be met by the Queen’s proclamation recognizing the South and expressing sympathy for it. His efforts played a key role in keeping Britain neutral while Southern agents were trying to achieve foreign recognition for the Confederacy. This required him to conduct dialogue with both sides and to monitor the British connections related to the supply of commerce to the South for war purposes. This extraordinary collection of letters from the Civil War provide excellent inside into his role in these and other matters.  
 
"The series of letters printed in these volumes, individual in themselves, make an almost unique combination.  The time of writing, the crisis through which not only the nation but republican institutions were passing, the inheritance and position of the writers, and the personal characteristics of each as shown in the letters and as developed in later days, unite to give interest to the subjects treated and the manner of presentation.   They are family letters, written in all the freedom of family intercourse; but they are much more than family letters, for the description of social conditions, the discussion of public questions, and the wide relations held by the writers make them a contribution to the social, military and diplomatic history of the War of Secession unequaled in extent and concentrated interest…." – From the Introduction
 
THIS BOOK SET IS IN FINE CONDITION
 
This original, first edition book set is in excellent condition. The books are fine and come protected in the original, paper dust jackets (uncommon) that have light edge wear and are protected in clear, Brodart covers. The books are sharp, bright and clean. They have solid binding throughout. The spine lettering remains bright and sharp. The exteriors have no bumping, rubbing or edge wear. The pages are clean and the interiors are in fine condition. There isn’t a mark in the book set; the books have no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library set. The books contain frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards. The books have no looseness or lean. Volume I has 298 pages; Volume II has 281 pages. An excellent condition, first edition, complete, two-volume book set in the original dust jackets that are protected in clear, Brodart covers.
 
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