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THE LIFE
OF
ALBERT GALLATIN.
BY
H E N R Y A D A M S.
Copyright, 1879, by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
PREFACE.
A LARGE part of the following biography relates to a period of Americanhistory as yet unwritten, and is intended to supply historians withmaterial which, except in such a form, would be little likely to see thelight. The principal private source from which the author has drawn hisinformation is of course the rich collection of papers which AlbertGallatin left behind him in the hands of his only now surviving son andliterary executor, under whose direction these volumes are published. Bythe liberality and courtesy of Mr. Evarts, Secretary of State, and theactive assistance of the admirable organization of the State Department,much material in the government archives at Washington has been madeaccessible, without which the story must have been little more than afragment. The interesting series of letters addressed to Joseph H.