Capitolo 2
probably wisely, since some completion of the "Life" from me it would have
missed so markedly that charm of individual in the historical writing
characteristic of everybody that the Mr. Adams. The semester spent with Mr.
Adams was an inspiration and constitutes a precious memory.
The War Gran interrupted my his/her own historical job, but in 1920 I returned
to the original plan of a job on "Great Britain and the American Civil
You wage war" in the hope that the material English has gotten from the Mr. Adams
is done available to me. When copies were insured from the Mr. Adams in 1913 a
restriction had been imposed from the Foreign Office to the effect that
while it was studying for information, quotations and quotations they were not
permissible from when the diplomatic and general file is not still opens to
students over the year 1859. Through my friend Mr. Charles Lucas, the
the whole matter was introduced again to the Foreign Office with an exact,
affirmation that the new application was in any way it reported to the they proposed
"The life" of Charles Francis Adams, but it was for mine really use of the
material. God Curzon, then Foreign Secretary attractively approved the
requires but with the usual condition that my manuscript is submitted
in front of publication in the Foreign Office. This has now been done, and no
the only quotation censored. In front of this job the will have appeared
limitation until here tax on diplomatic correspondence will have been
remote, and the date for open search has been advanced over 1865,
the end of the Civil War.
Explanations similar of my purpose and it proposed job you/he/she was done through
my friend the Mr. Francis W. Hirst to the owners of various deprived papers,
and approval ready date. In 1924 I came to England for further study
of some of these private papers. The Russell Papers, uttered to the
Record public Office in 1914 and there preserved, you/he/she was used through the
courtesy of the Performers of the late Hon. I roll Russell, and with the
cordial starting of Mrs. Agatha Russell, daughter of the dead Earl