19, 1861).

Newton (_Lyons_, I, pp.

55-78) shows that Seward was, in fact, permitted to read the instructions on the nineteenth.] [Footnote 470: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, I, p.86.

C.F.Adams, Jr., to Henry Adams, Dec.

19, 1861.] [Footnote 471: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.234.