Marshall, Edison, Seward's Folly. Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1924. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good with some edge wear. 312 pages. Binding is sturdy.
"The mysterious lapse of the Treaty of 1839 between the great Russian and English companies is obscured in the shadows of the past. No historical evidence exists that Secretary of State Seward was instrumental in blocking the treaty, and parts of the narrative dealing therewith must be regarded as purely fictitious. Otherwise Mr. Seward is presented according to my most sincere interpretation of this profound though lucid genius. The prickly international situations of the time, the Sitka of 1867, and the various characters are as nearly true as can be seen through the misty distance of sixty years." From the Foreword