Letters to Martin Van Buren

John Van Buren''s ''Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839'' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States. A fly-on-the-wall view of the political and social situation in Europe was invaluable to the President at a highly sensitive moment in Anglo-American relations,...