This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHY. The most important sources for the history of the South American wars of liberation, and the recognition of the republics, are to be found in the archives of the British Foreign Office, at the Public Records Office in London, and in those of the State Department, in the Bureau of Indexes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHY. The most important sources for the history of the South American wars of liberation, and the recognition of the republics, are to be found in the archives of the British Foreign Office, at the Public Records Office in London, and in those of the State Department, in the Bureau of Indexes and Archives at Washington. The Foreign Office correspondence generally is to be found classified in three files for each country. One file contains the instructions and despatches passed between the Secretary for Foreign Relations and the British Minister abroad; the second contains the notes exchanged between the former and the foreign Minister resident in London; the third contains the miscellaneous correspondence of the Foreign Office respecting the foreign country. Given the date, the name of the correspondents, and the country, and any letter can be quickly located. Until about 1835, the State Department kept two letter books, one containing all instructions issued to American ministers, and the other all notes sent to the Legations. In addition two files were kept for each country, comprising the despatches from the American Minister, and the notes from the Legation in Washington. After this date, the consolidated letter-books were abandoned, and separate ones started for each country; so that at present the correspondence with each country is to be found in two letter-books and two files. The archives of the Adams family, now deposited in the building of the Massachusetts Historical Society, are rich in materials on foreign affairs. Here are to be found duplicates of most of the correspondence of John Quincy Adams, while Secretary of State, as well as the manuscript of his journal and the papers of his father and his son. In the...
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