My Diary : North and South : In two volumes
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1863.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15442
Rear hinge started volume one, light cock, edge foxing, light tone, number written on front paste-downs, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers. ; Two of two volumes, complete set. Revealing views of both Union and Confederacy during the first nine months of the Civil War by influential British war coirrespondent William Howard Russell. Eugene C Murdock; The Civil War in the North; 4768. "Russell was a caustic and penetrating critic of both the North and South, and succeeded in stirring up a storm of hostility in both sections by his faultfinding with hotels and travel facilities. He irked the North especially by his account of the rout of the Federals at First Manassas. He stirred up hostility in the South by his phobia against slavery, which he denounced time and again as barbarism. ... Discounting his bias and highly critical attitude toward all things American, one may get a remarkably vivid picture of life in the South during three months in the early period of the Confederacy. He wrote without restraint, scruples, or delicacy in describing his association with individual Southerners." - E Merton Coulter; Travels in the Confederate States: A Bibliography; 403. Russell's series of Letters to The Times had significant impact on British and European attitudes toward the Civil War, although they were more restained in language and hostile criticism than his frank views in My Diary. First Edition, First Printing (with Publisher's catalog of December 1862 in volume I) of this highly significant English account of the early Civil War. ; xvi, 424, 16 ad; xi, 442, 1 ad pages.
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