In this book, first published in 1847, the English author Sarah
Mytton Maury gives a personal and very positive account of her
impressions of the United States upon arriving there in late 1845.
Through marriage she gains access to many American statesmen of her
day, and the book is dedicated to James Buchanan, later President
of the United States. Maury portrays prominent senators, judges,
officers, members of the clergy and Presidents John Adams and James
K. Polk. Many of the descriptions are interspersed with extracts
from speeches and letters by those portrayed. The book gives a
great deal of attention to the early nineteenth-century dispute
between Britain and the United States about territorial claims in
the north-west, the so-called 'Oregon Question'. On this question
as in other matters of contention or cultural differences between
the two countries, Maury maintains a position of neutrality.
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