Extract from letter of Messrs. Campbell and Parke to the Secretary of State. Washington, February 3, 1872. Sir: * * * * * * * A map should be examined…
Mr. Gibbs to the Secretary of State. 77 Wall Street, New Haven, February 20, 1872. Sir: * * * * * * * The superior depth and width of the…
Commodore Case to the Secretary of the Navy.[67] Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, February 13, 1872. Sir: * * * * * * * I was a Lieutenant on board…
Declaration of Rear-Admiral Wilkes. Washington City, February 16, 1872. In answer to the memorandum on the Haro question, I have to state that I have a full knowledge of the…
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Campbell.[64] New York, June 15, 1858. Sir: Your letter of May 27 has but just reached me, in consequence of my absence from home on a…
Viscount Palmerston to Mr. Bancroft. Foreign Office, November 7, 1848. Sir: I beg leave to return you my best thanks for the surveys of Puget’s Sound, and of the Gulf…
Mr. Bancroft to Viscount Palmerston. 108 Eaton Square, November 3, 1848. My Lord: I did not forget your Lordship’s desire to see the United States surveys of the waters of…
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Buchanan. United States Legation, London, October 19, 1848. Sir: I send you a man of Vancouver’s Island, recently published by James Wyld, geographer to the Queen.…
*Mr. Bancroft to Lord Palmerston.62] 90 Eaton Square, July 31, 1848. My Dear Lord: As your lordship desired, I send for your inspection the traced copy made for me at…
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Buchanan.1 United States Legation, London, August 4, 1848. Sir: * * * * * The Hudson’s Bay Company have been trying to get a grant of…