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4. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, July 8, 1864.
5. Greenhow, London Diary, p. 111, July 8, 1864.
6. William Flavelle Monypenny, Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, vol. 3 (London, 1916), p. 405.
7. Mary Ellison, Support for Secession (Chicago, 1972), p. 153.
8. Greenhow, London Diary, p. 119, July 21–24, 1864.
9. The Times, July 26, 1864.
10. PRFA, 1/2, (1864), p. 229, Adams to Seward, July 28, 1864.
11. Ibid., p. 223, Adams to Seward, July 21, 1864.
12. Ibid., p. 250, Adams to Seward, July 29, 1864.
13. Greenhow, London Diary, p. 115, July 14, 1864.
14. Ibid., p. 123, August 7, 1864.
15. Diane Fontaine Corbin, A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury (London, 1880), p. 223.
16. Greenhow, London Diary, p. 122, August 1, 1864. The Private Journal of Georgiana Gholson Walker, ed. Dwight Franklin Henderson, Confederate Centennial Studies, 25 (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1963), p. 94, May 16, 1864. Rose procured the best ophthalmologist in London for Georgiana’s child, who pronounced the condition to be incurable.
17. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 1184, Mason to Benjamin, August 4, 1864.
18. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, August 1, 1864.
19. The Letters of Henry Adams, vol. 1, p. 441, Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., July 1, 1864.
20. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, July 30, 1864.
21. Greenhow, London Diary, p. 123, August 7, 1864.
22. Ibid., p. 128, August 10, 1864.
23. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 1143, Hotze to Benjamin, June 3, 1864.
24. Library of Congress, Hotze Papers, private letterbook, Hotze to Witt, June 18, 1864.
25. Punch, August 6, 1864.
26. Andrew Ross, David Livingstone: Mission and Empire (London, 2002), p. 190.
27. Timothy Holmes, ed., David Livingstone, Letters and Documents, 1861–1872 (London, 1990), p. 100, Livingstone to W. C. Oswell, October 21, 1864.
28. Sarah Agnes Wallace and Frances Elma Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, vol. 2, p. 1327, September 16, 1864.
29. Ibid., p. 1329, September 22, 1864.
30. NARA, M. T. 185, roll 8, vol. 8, Consul Eastman to Seward, August 24, 1864.
31. PRFA, 1/2, (1864), p. 313, Charles Francis Adams to Seward, September 29, 1864.
32. The Duchess of Sutherland’s antislavery petition of 1852, “The Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters, the Women of the United States of America,” was signed by more than 500,000 British women. It caused considerable offense in both the North and the South. But at least that petition was addressed to the citizens of the United States. Kershaw’s intention to present the petition to the Northern government was both preposterous and presumptuous.
33. Library of Congress, Hotze Papers, private letterbook, Hotze to Benjamin, September 2, 1864.
34. Belle Boyd, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (New York, 1965; repr. Baton Rouge, La., 1998), p. 206.
35. Ibid., p. 208; Wallace and Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, vol. 2, p. 1317, August 25, 1864.
36. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, September 5, 1864.
37. Army and Navy Gazette, September 3, 1864. Not everyone doubted the news. Northern supporters in Perth, Scotland, celebrated Sherman’s victory by flying the American flag and firing the town cannon.
38. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 1219, Slidell to Benjamin, September 29, 1864.
39. Ibid., p. 1209, Hotze to Benjamin, September 17, 1864.
40. The Private Journal of Georgiana Gholson Walker, p. 112.
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1. Duke University, Malet family MSS, Malet to mother, August 30, 1864, and September 29, 1864.
2. Brian Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union, 2 vols. (Montreal, 1974, 1980), vol. 2, p. 369.
3. Robin Winks, Canada and the United States: The Civil War Years (Lanham, Md., 1988), pp. 143–47. Monck had telegraphed Lord Lyons, who immediately sent a message