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[ 175 ] A Note on Sources The Albert Gallatin Papers constitute the backbone of the original sources consulted for this book and are available on microfilm at the New-York Historical Society. The Papers of Albert Gallatin result from a project sponsored by New York University in 1970 and are available at the Library of Congress and the New-York Historical Society. There is a small archive of Gallatin papers at the Bibliothèque de Genève. The Archives d’État in Geneva provided background via email and copies of archive material by mail. So far as is possible, I have tried to limit the citations in the text to original source material only, mainly correspondence and published papers. Among secondary sources (see details of the publications in the bibliography that follows), two books stand out for their exhaustive research: Henry Adams’s Life of Albert Gallatin, which is the bible of Gallatin biographies and of irreplaceable value for anyone wishing to write a life of Gallatin ; and Raymond Walters’s biography, which contains a wealth of detail and context. Readers are advised to avoid the Diary of James Gallatin, Secretary to Albert Gallatin, a Great Peacemaker, which is not listed in the bibliography. It is almost certainly a fanciful invention, copying much of Adams’s Life for its context, perpetrated by Albert Gallatin’s great-grandson James, as described in Walters’s paper “The James Gallatin Diary: A Fraud?” cited in the bibliography. Ewing’s enthusiastic biography seems to be based on that Diary in too large part. John Austin Stevens’s Albert Gallatin is a readable and to all appearances reliable account by a distant relative of Gallatin’s wife. Benedict von Tscharner’s recent slim biography is a compact and accessible account from a Swiss diplomat’s urbane and admiring perspective. Adams published the Writings of Albert Gallatin in three volumes around the same time as his Life of Albert Gallatin. The Writings contain much of the most interesting material in the Albert Gallatin Papers and have the virtue of being typeset and printed, and so are much more legible. I have sought to anchor the narrative as much as possible using primary sources but have also relied on the biographies—by Adams, A Note on Sources [ 176 ] Stevens, and Walters, in particular—in constructing the story. Some of the shorter pieces, such as Rappard’s paper, which covers Gallatin’s return to Geneva in 1815, are helpful in filling in the gaps. With regard to background history, Dufour’s Histoire de Genève is a dense account of the history of Geneva. Osborne’s section on Calvin and the Reformation is helpful in situating their importance. For American history , Remini is highly readable, Morison remains a standard that is hard to beat, and Channing’s work from the early twentieth century is a model of old-school erudition. Jones’s commemorative edition of the centenary history of New York University is of the same style and quality. Many of the other sources listed in the bibliography have been consulted . All are listed so as to provide as complete as possible a picture of the information on Gallatin that is up to date for his two hundred fiftieth anniversary. ...

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