This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... in service. In a long conversation with Blair this evening he told me he had put himself in communication with some of the New York editors. Greeley had disappointed him, and was unreliable. Marble of the World he commends highly. I incline to think he has ability and he, or some of his writers, exhibits more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... in service. In a long conversation with Blair this evening he told me he had put himself in communication with some of the New York editors. Greeley had disappointed him, and was unreliable. Marble of the World he commends highly. I incline to think he has ability and he, or some of his writers, exhibits more comprehension of the true principles and structure of the government than in other journals. There is in the World more sound doctrine in these days than in most papers. Blair still holds on to McClellan, --stronger, I think, than he did a year ago. Perhaps Marble and his New York friends have influenced him more than he supposes, and that he, instead of, or as well as they, may have been at least partially converted. June 24, Saturday. Senator Trumbull called on me today. Says he is and has been Johnsonian. Is not prepared to say the Administration policy of Reconstruction is not the best that could be suggested. As Trumbull is by nature censorious, --a faultfinder, --I was prepared to hear him censure. But he has about him some of the old State-rights notions which form the basis of both his and my political opinions. He expressed a hope that we had more regular Cabinetmeetings and a more general submission of important questions to the whole council than was the case under Mr. Lincoln's administration. Trumbull and the Senators generally thought Seward too meddlesome and presuming. The late President well understood and rightly appreciated the character and abilities of Trumbull, and would not quarrel with him, though he felt him to be ungenerous and 1865 LINCOLN AND SENATOR TRUMBULL 323 exacting. They had been pretty intimate, though of opposing parties, in Illinois, until circumstances and events brought them to act together. In a competition for th...
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Very Good. Without dust jacket. Single volume two only of three. With an introduction by John T. Morse, Jr., and with illustrations. Octavo, 9 1/3" tall, xvii + 653 pages + frontispiece and 13 plates, gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles on blue cloth. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the spine edges top and bottom; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed with slight foxing to the fore-edges. Without dust jacket.
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Very Good in Missing jacket. Size: 0x0x0; Blue cloth hardbound without dust jacket publiohed 1911. Volume III, 1867-1869. Gilt page edges. No text markings noted.
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3 vols. 549p; 653p; 671p. A set of three hardcover books bound in navy blue cloth with gilt trim. Very good condition overall. Corners barely chafed and very faint speckling on the spines. Owner's bookplate inside each volume's front cover. Rear endpaper tanned in volume I. Otherwise, text unmarked and binding secure across the set. An important historical resource on the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. Illustrated with black and white portraits. Top edges gilt. Howes W-240.
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