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 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 249 Lee, was issued in a volume in 1911, entitled &quot;Stu dies Military and Diplomatic.&quot; For half a century his father kept a diary and copies of his letters. Mr. Adams has for a number of years been occu pied with investigations naturally suggesting themselves in connection with these papers, and in the preparation of a more detailed biography of his father; which, when published, will constitute practically a history of the diplomacy of the war of secession, and of the issues which then arose between Great Britain and the United States. In this work it is understood he will draw freely on the papers of the elder Charles Francis Adams. HENRY, author, another son of Charles Francis Adams, born in Boston, February 16, 1838. He was graduated at Harvard in 1858, and was his father s private secretary in London from 1861 to 1868. From 1870 till 1877 he was assistant pro fessor of history in Harvard college, and was one of the ablest instructors the university has known during the present generation, possessing to an extraordinary degree the power of inciting his pupils to original work. Subsequently discontinu ing his connection with Harvard university, he established himself in Washington, where he wrote, and published, his History of the United States (1801-1816) ; generally regarded as among the best of American historical writings. During recent