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Excerpt from The Life of John Kalb: Major-General in the Revolutionary Army
All these gentlemen are requested to accept my heartfelt thanks for the friendship thus extended.
In the office of the Secretary of State at Washington I had no difficulty in obtaining the consent of General Cass to my taking copies of letters and documents relating to the subject of this memoir. Under the administration of Mr. Seward, several excerpts from a volume containing the De Kalb and the Du Coudray papers were withheld from me on the ground that they were deemed not relevant to my subject. A written demonstration to the contrary, which I furnished, received no attention. On the whole, no change has taken place in the narrow-minded jealousy with which the revolutionary documents are guarded in Washington, any more than in the neglected early education of the gentle men who guard them. The unsophisticated views of these worthy functionaries on matters of historical interest are without a parallel in the present century.
The following correspondence took place between the State Department and myself in relation to this subject.
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All these gentlemen are requested to accept my heartfelt thanks for the friendship thus extended.
In the office of the Secretary of State at Washington I had no difficulty in obtaining the consent of General Cass to my taking copies of letters and documents relating to the subject of this memoir. Under the administration of Mr. Seward, several excerpts from a volume containing the De Kalb and the Du Coudray papers were withheld from me on the ground that they were deemed not relevant to my subject. A written demonstration to the contrary, which I furnished, received no attention. On the whole, no change has taken place in the narrow-minded jealousy with which the revolutionary documents are guarded in Washington, any more than in the neglected early education of the gentle men who guard them. The unsophisticated views of these worthy functionaries on matters of historical interest are without a parallel in the present century.
The following correspondence took place between the State Department and myself in relation to this subject.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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Author
Friedrich Kapp
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ISBN - 9780265209653
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 350
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Friedrich Kapp
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ISBN - 9781330662977
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 352
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