Title page from The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 1

Part of: The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, 2 vols. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 1

Volume 1 of a two volume diary which Morris kept while he was Minister to France for the new American Republic from 1792-94. It provides much detail about the social life and political turmoil of Paris during a critical phase of the French Revolution.