The Diplomatic Archives of the Department of State, 1789-1840 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Diplomatic Archives of the Department of State, 1789-1840 Any one who has sought information of this character in the Congressional series from 1828 to 1860 knows how puzzling the task is, and especially that, except in a few favored localities, the sets of volumes are not sufficiently complete for a thorough and satisfactory examination. Most of us have probably had the pleasure of nnding that the particular volume we desired to use was, by the irony of fate, missing from the set to which we had access. An examination of the archives of the State Department seems to show conclusively (1) the need of printing in extenso the diplomatic correspondence for the period covered by the State Papers, Foreign Relations (1789-1828), because of the incompleteness of these volumes, as will be particularly illustrated in the following pages of this report; (2) the need of printing the materials from 1828 to 1860 as fully as the policy and desire of the State Department permit, because of the abundance of interesting material hitherto entirely unprinted and because the documents at one time printed in the Congressional series are now largely inaccessible for the average reader, student, or scholar, and of course altogether out of print. An examination of the extent of the material in the Bureau of Indexes and Archives has been made, and this not by looking at the outside of the bound volumes, but by turning over the letters page by page. Any one who has tried the task of estimating the length of a manuscript knows how difficult it is to be exact, but in this case it is fair to say, as a result of the examination and of checking over the materials in certain periods, that not more than one-fourth of the material has been printed in the State Papers. The despatches and instructions omitted are often of extreme interest. In preparing the following pages, I have not, as a rule, tried to determine whether certain manuscript papers are printed in the writings of distinguished statesmen. Some of these papers are found in such volumes as the Writings of Jefferson, and those of Jay, Madison, and Monroe; but the number printed is, comparatively, very small, and they appear generally in limited and expensive editions, which find no place on the shelves of the great mass of students and readers of American history. The materials printed in the State Papers very often appear only in extract. It is unnecessary to say that, so far as their importance for diplomatic history is concerned, the omitted portions are often not the least interesting. Take, for example, a list of papers communicated to the House of Representatives February 5, 1824 (American State Papers, Vol. V, 282). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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