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A Quaker Goes to Spain - The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813-1816 (Paperback)
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A Quaker Goes to Spain - The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813-1816 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
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In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President
James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency
government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared
British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack
the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that
territory for America. The man Madison sent to pursue those
challenging tasks was Anthony Morris, a friend of Dolley Madison's
from their youth in Philadelphia and a devout Quaker lawyer who had
never before journeyed abroad. Morris, a widower, had willingly
accepted the president's call, despite the separation it would
impose from his four teenage children. The Morris mission did not
proceed as intended, as developments in Spain conspired to alter
its scope and prolong its duration. Long after the war had ended,
Morris was compelled to persevere at his post as the only American
link to an unfriendly Spanish monarchy. As he dutifully carried on,
ill-founded accusations by two other frustrated American diplomats
slurred his reputation. Meanwhile, he thirsted to rejoin his
maturing children, whose lives were taking paths that would have
been unlikely had he never left them. Throughout this ordeal, a
steadfastly philosophical Anthony Morris strove to counter his
distress by thoughtful exploration of a national culture and a
religious faith so very different from his own. The full story of
this distinctive but little-remembered diplomatic endeavor has not
previously been recounted. The telling of it here reveals much
about the vexation and confusion endemic to American diplomacy in
the age of sail, when events often moved faster than the mails.
Interwoven with that historical account is the poignant revelation
of the spiritual and cultural growth that Anthony Morris reaped
from his odyssey, as displayed in a stream of intimate, charming
letters to the daughters he had left at home. Published in the
ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series
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