ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EFORE all I wish to thank Mr. Olney's daughters, BE Mrs. George R. Minot and Mrs. Charles H. Abbot, who have placed every facility at my disposal, have given me much information, and have allowed me the most complete liberty in using it. Miss A. M. Straw, one of Mr. Olney's executors, who was his confidential clerk for thirty-one years, has furnished invaluable assistance by searching out and arranging papers that were preserved in his voluminous private files, by providing transcripts, and by supplying data which I should never have found by myself. I have also been helped by conversations and correspondence with a number of Mr. Olney's associates and acquaintances. Among these, it is a pleasure to name particularly Mr. Ira C. Hersey, Mr. Charles H. Tyler, Mr. William C. Endicott, Mr. Nathan Matthews, Mr. Edgar J. Rich, Mr. Richard Olney, 2d, Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, and Mr. James Ford Rhodes, of Boston; Professor F. W. Taussig, of Cambridge; Dr. Gaillard Hunt, Mr. A. A. Adee, and Miss Mary W. Goss, of the State Department; Dr. James Brown Scott and Mr. Charles S. Hamlin, of Washington; Mr. Judson Harmon, of Ohio, who succeeded Mr. Olney as Attorney-General; Mr. Henry White, Mr. Elihu Root, Mr. J. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and Mr. Sigourney Olney, of New York; and the Honorable John Bassett Moore, now of The Hague. Professor Robert McNutt McElroy has kindly allowed me to examine 639730 documents in his collection of Cleveland papers, and has recently sent me some of the proof-sheets of his forthcoming Life of Cleveland. Mr. White, Dr. Hunt, Professor R. B. Merriman, of Harvard, Miss Straw, and Mrs. Minot have kindly read parts or all of my manuscript and have made suggestions which have aided me in completing it. 1 Although I have tried to cite every published work on which I have relied for a particular statement, I should like to mention here that the following books have been of more help to me than footnotes can indicate: J. F. Rhodes, History of the United States and The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations; H. T. Peck, Twenty Years of the Republic; F. E. Chadwick, The Relations of the United States and Spain, Diplomacy; A. C. Coolidge, The United States as a World Power; R. B. Merriman, "The Monroe Doctrine" (in the Political Quarterly, No. 7, Oxford, 1915). Mr. Olney's family proposes to deposit in the Congressional Library in Washington such of his correspondence and papers as deal with his public service, and it is my understanding that this will be accomplished shortly. Documents referred to as "Olney Collection" (or "Olney Coll.") will be understood to be among them. I am indebted for permission to reprint the map of the Venezuelan boundary, several cartoons, and several quotations and whole articles which appear in the text and appendices, to the courtesy of the publishers and journals which are identified in each instance. Mrs. T. J. Preston has contributed the snap-shot of Cleveland and Olney on the veranda at Falmouth. To Mrs. William S. Hilles, to Mrs. Payne Whitney, to Mr. Rodman Gilder, to Mr. Henry White, and to Mr. R. H. Dana I owe thanks for permission to print semi-official or private correspondence with the late Thomas F. Bayard, the late John Hay, the late R. W. Gilder, and with Mr. White and Mr. Dana themselves. Also I wish to express here my thanks to Mr. George B. Ives, who has prepared the topical index. Finally I should add that, while making these acknowledgments most gratefully, I assume full responsibility for all statements which may appear to be my own. H. J. NEW YORK, July, 1923 |