168-9.

To Charles Francis Adams, Jr., July 19, 1862.] [Footnote 708: Mason Papers.

The larger part of Slidell's letter to Mason is printed in Sears, "A Confederate Diplomat at the Court of Napoleon III," _Am.Hist.

Rev._, Jan., 1921, p.263.

C.F.Adams, "A Crisis in Downing Street," Mass.Hist.Soc._Proceedings_, May, 1914, p.
379, is in error in dating this letter April 21, an error for which the present writer is responsible, having misread Slidell's difficult hand-writing.] [Footnote 709: Richardson, II, pp.