Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editors' Note and Acknowledgments
- Interpretative Essay: The Third Democracy: Tocqueville's Views of America after 1840
- PART I LETTERS
- Introduction
- A Letters: 1840–1847
- B Letters: 1848–1852
- C Letters: 1853–1856
- D Letters: 1857–1859
- Undated and Partially Dated Letters
- E Letters between Tocqueville and His French and Other Correspondents
- PART II SPEECHES, ARTICLES, AND DIPLOMATIC PAPERS
- Appendix 1 Tocqueville's American Correspondents
- Appendix 2 Chronology
- Appendix 3 Sources for the Texts and Selected Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
A - Letters: 1840–1847
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editors' Note and Acknowledgments
- Interpretative Essay: The Third Democracy: Tocqueville's Views of America after 1840
- PART I LETTERS
- Introduction
- A Letters: 1840–1847
- B Letters: 1848–1852
- C Letters: 1853–1856
- D Letters: 1857–1859
- Undated and Partially Dated Letters
- E Letters between Tocqueville and His French and Other Correspondents
- PART II SPEECHES, ARTICLES, AND DIPLOMATIC PAPERS
- Appendix 1 Tocqueville's American Correspondents
- Appendix 2 Chronology
- Appendix 3 Sources for the Texts and Selected Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Jared Sparks to Alexis de Tocqueville
London, September 5, 1840
Dear Sir,
Some months ago, I received a copy of your able and excellent Report on the Emancipation of the Slaves in the French Colonies. It seemed to me to contain many things highly interesting and important to the American public. I procured a translation to be made by a lady who was much pleased with the task and executed it well. When I left the United States on the 1st of July it was in the press and I presume that it is published before this time.
I am busily engaged here examining the papers in the public offices relating to the American Revolution. I find the material abundant and valuable. In November I expect to go to Paris, for the purpose of making similar researches in the French offices.
I have not had the opportunity to read the second part of your great work; but I hear it spoken of by good judges in terms of high approbation & praise.
With great regard, I am, dear Sir,
Most truly yours,
Jared Sparks
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Ms Sparks, 132, Vol. IX (G. 29).
Alexis de Tocqueville to Jared Sparks
Chateau de Tocqueville, October 13, 1840
My dear Mr. Sparks,
I apologize for not having replied sooner to the letter that you sent me at the beginning of last month. That letter was first mailed to Paris where I was no longer residing.
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- Tocqueville on America after 1840Letters and Other Writings, pp. 52 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009