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Additional authors

1. Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849.
2. Ritchie & Heiss, printer.
3. United States. Congress (29th, 1st session : 1845-1846)

Description

1. 85 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. 29th Congress, 1st session. Senate. ; 1

Uniform title

1. Senate document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 29th Congress, 1st session, no. 1.

Subject

1. Great Britain
2. United States
3. Congressional addresses > 1845
4. 1845-1849
5. Politics and government
6. Oregon question
7. Diplomatic relations
8. Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States
9. United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain
10. United States > Politics and government > 1845-1849

Genre/Form

1. Congressional addresses – 1845.

Call number

1. Rare Books 21-411

Note

1. Includes the President's message (p. 3-30), and "Correspondence with the British minister in relation to Oregon" (p. 31-85)
2. "December 2, 1845. Read, ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed, with the accompanying documents; and that 3,500 additional copies of the message, and 1,500 additional copies of the message and documents, be furnished for the use of the Senate."
3. "December 3, 1845. Resolved, That, in addition to the copies of the President's message and documents hitherto ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate, there be printed, for the use of the Senate, 25,000 copies of the message, together with so much of the accompanying documents as relates to the negotiations between the United States and Great Britain, on the subject of the Oregon Territory."

Provenance (note)

1. Bookplate laid in at front: "The New York Public Library. Purchased from The Helen Mouat Fund In Memory of Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel"; insert with possible dealer's inventory number.

Binding (note)

1. Bound with publisher's self wrappers, added sewing.

Author

1. Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849.

Title

1. Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the twenty-ninth Congress.

Imprint

1. Washington : Printed by Ritchie & Heiss, 1845.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. 29th Congress, 1st session. Senate. ; 1
2. Senate document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 29th Congress, 1st session, no. 1.

Provenance

1. Bookplate laid in at front: "The New York Public Library. Purchased from The Helen Mouat Fund In Memory of Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel"; insert with possible dealer's inventory number. NN

Binding

1. Bound with publisher's self wrappers, added sewing. NN

Chronological term

1. 1845-1849

Added author

1. Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849.
2. Ritchie & Heiss, printer.
3. United States. Congress (29th, 1st session : 1845-1846)

Research call number

1. Rare Books 21-411