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Showing posts with label Charles F Adams Sr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles F Adams Sr. Show all posts
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Diary of Adam Gurowski, March 1861

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For the first time in my life I assisted at the simplest and grandest spectacle—the inauguration of a President. Lincoln's message good,...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Charles Francis Adams Sr. to Charles Sumner, December 10, 1850

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If our friends decide to risk themselves in that ship, I trust we may get a full consideration for the risk; and the only full consideration...

Charles Sumner to Charles Francis Adams Sr., December 15, 1850

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I am particularly moved to this [to write] by your allusion to me in connection with a certain post . I appreciate your generosity, and am p...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, May 1, 1861

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The America brought me a note from. Mr. Adams. He quits Boston to-day. I may, therefore, look for him at farthest on the 15th inst. The Pr...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to Charles Francis Adams Sr., August 5, 1864

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H.Q. Cav’y Escort, A. of P.                 Before Petersburg, August 5 , 1864 *           *           *           *           *     ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Charles Francis Adams Jr. to Abigail Brown Brooks Adams, August 27, 1864

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H.Q. Cav'y Escort, A. of P.                  Before Petersburg, August 27, 1864 *           *           *           *           * ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

John M. Forbes to William Bathbone, Jr. of Liverpool, October 31, 1863

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Boston, 31 October, 1863. Your note about Sumner's speech was duly received and has been used so that it will do good. Being marked...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

John Russell to Charles Francis Adams, September 8, 1863

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Foreign Office, September 8, 1863. Lord Russell presents his compliments to Mr. Adams, and has the honor to inform him that instructio...

Charles Francis Adams to John Russell, September 5, 1863

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Legation Of The United States,     London, September 5, 1863. My Lord : At this moment, when one of the iron-clad vessels is on the p...

Charles Francis Adams to John M. Forbes, September 7, 1863

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London , 7 September, 1863. I have been taking a little vacation in Scotland, which must account to you for my failure earlier to notic...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

John M. Forbes, writing from London, after June 9, 1863

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Among my London acquaintances was Mr. Edward Ellis, a member of Parliament himself, and, I think, with one or two sons also in that body. H...
Monday, October 1, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Horace Mann, February 18, 1851

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Boston , Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 1851. My Dear Mann : — There is nothing new or extraordinary here, except that I have half an hour's l...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Gerrit Smith to Stephen C. Phillips, October 13, 1846

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Peterboro , October 23,1846. Hon. Stephen C. Phillips , of Salem, Mass.: Dear Sir — This day's mail brings me the speech which yo...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, January 4, 1864

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We have a snowstorm to-day, the first of the season. Mails are irregular and have been for some days past. Ice in the Susquehanna obstructs...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Charles Sumner, June 22, 1850

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Northampton , June 22, 1850. My Dear Sumner : I came here on Thursday evening, having left the Federal City the evening before at 5 P. ...