PREFACE The study of American diplomatic history contained in these lectures is confined, in the main, to the relations between the United States and Great Britain covering the period of the War of 1812, with special reference to the negotiations resulting in the Treaty of Ghent. A more general consideration is also given to the diplomacy of the two countries with reference to the questions entering into the causes of the war; and, also, to the negotiations subsequent to the Treaty of Ghent which had to do with the execution of the treaty itself and with the controverted questions. omitted from the treaty. In addition to the important printed sources, such as American State Papers, Annals of Congress, British and Foreign State Papers, Parliamentary Debates, Parliamentary Papers, Niles' Register, Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Historical Register, Wellington's Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, and the Writings of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Gallatin, the writer has had access to the diplomatic despatches and instructions of this period in the State Department at Washington and in the Foreign Office in London. The manuscript letters of Jefferson, Monroe, Adams, and Crawford in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress and the unpublished papers and correspondence of Jonathan Russell in the Wheaton collection of the John Hay Library of Brown University, have thrown important light upon the diplomacy of this period. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness for assistance in securing material to Professor George Grafton Wilson of Harvard University, Dr. J. Franklin Jameson of the Carnegie Bureau of Historical Research, Mr. Worthington C. Ford, Editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Mr. Gaillard Hunt, Chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Dr. Charles O. Paullin of the Carnegie Bureau of Historical Research, Mr. Hubert Hall of the Public Record Office, London, and Mr. John R. Buck, Chief of the Bureau of Indexes and Archives, Department of State. I am also greatly indebted to Miss Fannie Roseman, of Washington, D. C., for assistance in proof-reading, and to Miss Mabel Reese of Baltimore for her work in seeing the book through the press. FRANK A. UPDYKE. |