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22. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 215, Yancey and Mann to Toombs, May 21, 1861.
23. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels (New York, 1973), p. 116.
24. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, July 11, 1861.
25. The legation shuttled first to 7 Duke Street on May 20, and then to 17 St. George’s Place on June 1. The building was adequate but on the small side. The house he found for his family, 52 Grosvenor Square, had also been his grandfather’s residence during his posting in London.
26. W. C. Ford (ed.), Letters of Henry Adams, 1858–1891, 2 vols. (Boston, 1930–38), vol. 1, p. 90, Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., May 16, 1861.
27. Quoted in Asa Briggs, Victorian People (London, 1954), p. 206.
28. T. Wemyss Reid, Life of the Right Honourable William Edward Forster (London, 1888), p. 333, Forster to Ellis Yarnall, May 10, 1861.
29. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, p. 124.
30. Trinity College Library, Cambridge, Houghton MS CA9/66, Milnes to Sir Charles J. MacCarthy, June 25, 1861.
31. George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll (1823–1900): Autobiography and Memoirs, ed. the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, 2 vols. (London, 1906), vol. 2, p. 170, Argyll to John Motley, May 14, 1861.
32. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, May 15, 1861.
33. Ibid., May 16, 1861.
34. Ibid.
35. Charles Vandersee, “Henry Adams Behind the Scenes: Civil War Letters to Frederick W. Seward,” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 71/4 (1967), p. 248. Otherwise, Henry had written to Frederick Seward, every staff member would be new and “you will see at once what a position the Embassy would be in.”
36. G. P. Gooch (ed.), The Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell, 1840–1878, 2 vols. (London, 1925), vol. 2, p. 320, Lord John Russell to Lord Cowley, June 13, 1861.
37. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, May 18, 1861.
38. Edward L. Pierce (ed.), Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 4 vols. (Boston, 1894), vol. 4: 1860–1870, p. 31, Argyll to Sumner, June 4, 1861.
39. Gooch (ed.), The Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell, vol. 2, p. 320, Russell to Lord Cowley, June 13, 1861.
40. Hansard, 3rd ser., vol. 163, col. 277, May 30, 1861.
41. C. Vann Woodward (ed.), Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (repr., New Haven, 1981), p. 67.
42. Seward’s new accommodation was called the “Old Club House.” Two years before he moved in, it was the scene of Daniel Sickles’s notorious murder of Phillip Barton Key, his wife’s alleged lover. Sickles shot Key in cold blood on the street in front of the house, and his victim was carried inside, where he bled to death in the room that became Seward’s parlor.
43. David Herbert Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (New York, 1970), p. 21.
44. Ibid., p. 25.
45. Tropic Wind, Hiawatha, Octavia, and Haxall.
46. BDOFA, part I, ser. C, vol. 5, p. 209, doc. 172, Lyons to Russell, May 2, 1861.
47. Adam Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862 (Boston, 1862), pp. 37–50.
48. PRO 30/22/35, ff. 96–98, Lyons to Russell, June 4, 1861; PRO 30/23/35, ff. 99–100, Lyons to Russell, June 10, 1861.
49. George Templeton Strong, Diary of the Civil War, 1860–1865, ed. Allan Nevins (New York, 1962), p. 145, May 22, 1861.
50. G. H. Warren, Fountain of Discontent: The Trent Affair and Freedom of the Seas (Boston, 1981), p. 84.
51. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, June 1, 1861.
52. Ford (ed.), Letters of Henry Adams, vol. 1, p. 93, Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., June 10–11, 1861.
53. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the ship was five times the size of its nearest rival. In addition to the 2,000 troops on board, there were more than 470 women and children, 122 horses, and 400 crew, making a total of around 3,000. During the voyage, two women gave birth, and