Letter
George Bancroft to James Buchanan, November 3, 1846
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Buchanan.
London, November 3, 1846.
Sir: * * * * * * * *
While in the Navy Department I caused a traced copy of Wilkes’s chart of the Straits of Haro to be made. If not needed in the Navy Department, I request that the President will direct it to be sent to this Legation. It is intimated to me that questions may arise with regard to the islands east of that Strait. I ask your authority to meet any such claim at the threshold by the assertion of the central channel of the Straits of Haro as the main channel intended by the recent Treaty of Washington. Some of the islands I am well informed are of value.
Very respectfully, &c.,
GEORGE BANCROFT.
Hon. James Buchanan, Secretary of State.
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No. 2.
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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. BANCROFT AND MR. BUCHANAN.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.