the most famous is Monroe's message in 1823.
Since 1860 they have been accompanied by a volume of "Foreign Relations",
giving such correspondence as can be made public at the time. The
full correspondence in particular cases is sometimes called for by the
Congress, in which case it is found in the "Executive Documents" of
House or Senate. A fairly adequate selection of all such papers before
1828 is found in "American State Papers, Foreign Affairs." Three volumes
contain the American "Treaties, Conventions, International Acts," etc.,
to 1918. A. B. Hart's "Foundations of American Foreign Policy" (1901)
gives a good bibliography of these and other sources.

More intimate material is found in the lives and works of diplomats,
American and foreign. Almost all leave some record, but there are
unfortunately fewer of value since 1830 than before that date. The
"Memoirs" of John Quincy Adams (1874-1877), and his "Writings," (1913-),
are full of fire and information, and W. C. Ford, in his "John Quincy
Adams and the Monroe Doctrine," in the "American Historical Review,"
vol. VII, pp. 676-696, and vol. VIII, pp. 28-52, enables us to sit at
the council table while that fundamental policy was being evolved. The
most interesting work of this kind for the later period is "The Life and
Letters of John Hay," by W. R. Thayer, 2 vols. (1915).

Treatments of American diplomacy as a whole are few. J. W. Foster's
"Century of American Diplomacy" (1901) ends with 1876. C. R. Fish in
"American Diplomacy" (1915) gives a narrative from the beginning to the
present time. W. A. Dunning's "The British Empire and the United States"
(1914) is illuminating and interesting. Few countries possess so firm a
basis for the understanding of their relations with the world as J.
B. Moore has laid down in his "Digest of International Law," 8 vols.
(1906), and his "History and Digest of International Arbitrations," 6
vols. (1898).

Particular episodes and subjects have attracted much more the attention
of students. Of the library of works on the Monroe Doctrine, A. B.
Hart's "The Monroe Doctrine, an Interpretation" (1916) can be most
safely recommended. On the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, M. W. Williams's
"Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy," 1815-1915 (1916) combines scholarly
accuracy with interest. A. R. Colquhoun's "The Mastery of the Pacific"
(1902) has sweep; and no one will regret reading R. L. Stevenson's "A
Footnote to History" (1892), though it deals but