Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Feb.

14, 1862.] [Footnote 553: _Ibid._, p.115.To his son, Feb.

21, 1862.] [Footnote 554: Lyons Papers.

March 1, 1862.] [Footnote 555: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, I, 123.

To his son.] [Footnote 556: Palmerston MS.Feb.9, 1862.] [Footnote 557: Bernard, p.245.The author agrees with Russell but adds that Great Britain, in the early stages of the blockade, was indulgent to the North, and rightly so considering the difficulties of instituting it.] [Footnote 558: He wrote to Mason on February 10, 1863, that he saw "no reason to qualify the language employed in my despatch to Lord Lyons of the 15th of February last." (Bernard, p.