1968 DIARY OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Papers FRIEDLAENDER Butterfield JOHN QUINCY
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1968 DIARY OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Papers FRIEDLAENDER Butterfield JOHN QUINCY:
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DIARY OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Volumes 3 and 4
Edited by Marc Friedlaender and L. H. Butterfield
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.
TWO VOLUMES.
4to / Hardcovers w/jacket / 431 pp + 502 pp / Clean and tight / Illustrated / Owner\'s bookplate / Light edgewear, browning to jackets / Book edge foxing /
Volumes 3 and 4 from \"The Adams Papers\" - Diary of Charles Francis Adams, September 1829 - February 1831 (Vol 3) and March 1831 - December 1832 (Vol 4).
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Charles Francis Adams, Sr.,(August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, politician and diplomat.[1]He was the son of PresidentJohn Quincy Adamsand grandson of PresidentJohn Adams, of whom he wrote a major biography.
Adams served in the Massachusetts State Senate, before running unsuccessfully for Vice-President (Free Soil Party) in theelection of 1848. During theCivil War, Adams was Abraham Lincoln\'s foreign minister in London, where he played a key role in keeping Britain neutral, while southern agents were trying to achieve official recognition of the Confederacy. This meant conducting dialogue with both sides, and monitoring the British connection in the supply of commerce raiders.
He became an overseer of Harvard University, and builtAdams National Historical Park, a library in honor of his father in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Early life[edit]Van Buren/Adams campaign posterHe was born inBoston, and attendedBoston Latin SchoolandHarvard College, where he graduated in 1825. He then studied law withDaniel Webster, and practiced in Boston. He wrote numerous reviews of works about American and British history for theNorth American Review.
Charles Adams and his brothersJohnandGeorgewere all rivals for the same woman, their cousin Mary Catherine Hellen, who lived with the John Quincy Adams family after the death of her parents. In 1828 John married Mary Hellen at a ceremony in theWhite House, and both Charles and George refused to attend.[2]
Adams was elected to theMassachusetts House of Representativesin 1841, served in thestate senate1844–1845, purchased and edited the journalBoston Whigin 1846, and was the unsuccessful nominee of theFree Soil PartyforVice President of the United Statesin1848.
Beginning in the 1840s, Adams became one of the finest historical editors of his era. He developed this expertise in part because of the example of his father, who in 1829 had turned from politics (after his defeated offer for a second presidential term in 1828) to history and biography. The senior Adams began a life of his father, John Adams, but only wrote a few chapters before he resumed his political career in 1830 with his election to the U.S. House of Representatives. The younger Adams, fresh from his edition of the letters of his grandmother,Abigail Adams, took up the project that his father had left uncompleted, and between 1850 and 1856 turned out not just the two volumes of the biography but eight further volumes presenting editions of John Adams\'s Diary and Autobiography, his major political writings, and a selection of letters and speeches. This edition, titledThe Works of John Adams, Esq., Second President of the United States,was the only edition of John Adams\'s writings until the family donated the cache of Adams papers to theMassachusetts Historical Societyin 1954 and authorized the creation of the Adams Papers project; the modern project had published accurate scholarly editions of John Adams\'s diary and autobiography, several volumes of Adams family correspondence, two volumes on the portraits of John and Abigail Adams and John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, and the early years of the diary of Charles Francis Adams. Charles Francis Adams published a revised edition of the biography in 1871. He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1857.[3]
Federal political career[edit]As aRepublican, Adams was elected to theUnited States House of Representativesin 1858, where he chaired the Committee on Manufactures. He resigned to becomeU.S. minister (ambassador)to theCourt of St. James(Britain) from 1861 to 1868. Powerful Massachusetts SenatorCharles Sumnerhad wanted the position, and became alienated from Adams. Britain had already recognized Confederate belligerency, but Adams was instrumental in maintaining Britishneutralityand preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during theAmerican Civil War. Part of those duties included correspondence with British civilians including Karl Marx and the International Workingmen\'s Association.[4]Adams and his son,Henry Adams, who acted as his private secretary, also were kept busy monitoring Confederate diplomatic intrigues and the construction of rebelcommerce raidersby British shipyards (like thehull N°290, launched as \"Enrica\" fromLiverpool[5]but which was soon transformed near theAzores Islandsinto sloop-of-warCSS Alabama) .
Mr. and Mrs. Adams on the porch atPeacefieldin QuincyAdams lived on Mount Vernon Street,Beacon Hill, Boston, 1842–1886[6]Portrait of Adams in 1867 byWilliam Morris HuntBack in Boston, Adams declined the presidency ofHarvard University, but became one of its overseers in 1869. In 1870 Charles Francis Adams built the firstpresidential libraryin the United States, to honor his father John Quincy Adams. The Stone Library includes over 14,000 books written in twelve languages. The library is located on the property of the \"Old House\" (also known as \"Peacefield\") atAdams National Historical ParkinQuincy, Massachusetts.
During the1876 electoral college controversy, Adams sided withDemocratSamuel J. TildenoverRepublicanRutherford B. Hayesfor thepresidency.
Charles Francis Adams died in Boston on November 21, 1886, and was interred inMount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy.[7]
His children[8]with Abigail Brown Brooks included:
- Louisa Catherine Adams (1831–1870) married Charles Kuhn
- John Quincy Adams II(September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr.(May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915)
- Henry Brooks Adams(February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918)
- Arthur Adams (1841–1846)
- Mary Gardiner Adams (1845–1928) married Dr. Henry Parker Quincy
- Peter ChardonBrooks Adams(June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927)
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