Adams certainly sought to influence Congress, but he used government directors and only a few agents.
Adams to George Hoar, Feb. 9, 1885, Adams to Moorfield Storey, Feb. 9, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 27, ser. 2, r. 23.
Adams to Storey, Dec. 1, 1884, UP, PO, OC, vol. 23, ser. 2, r. 20.
Adams to Colgate Hoyt, Jan. 5, 1887 (misdated 1886), UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 35.
Isaac Bromley, Memorandum, Dec. 10, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 32, f. 6: Bromley.
Adams to A. L. Williams, Feb. 16, 1887, Adams to Dawes, Feb. 19, 1887, UP, PO, OC, vol. 37, ser. 2, r. 33
Edward Kirkland, Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: The Patrician at Bay (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1965), 109-11
Charles Francis Adams, Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), 192.