By 1860 he had become one of the best known and socially popular of the Washington diplomatic corps, holding intimate relations with leading Americans both North and South.

His reports on events preceding and during the Civil War were examined in the archives of Bremen in 1910 by Dr.Ralph H.Lutz when preparing his doctor's thesis, "Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten waehrend des Sezessionskrieges" (Heidelberg, 1911).

My facts with regard to Schleiden are drawn in part from this thesis, in part from an article by him, "Rudolph Schleiden and the Visit to Richmond, April 25, 1861," printed in the _Annual Report of the American Historical Association_ for 1915, pp.

207-216.

Copies of some of Schleiden's despatches are on deposit in the Library of Congress among the papers of Carl Schurz.