(BURR WILKINSON CONSPIRACY) Report of the Committee Appointe

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(BURR WILKINSON CONSPIRACY.) Report of the Committee, Appointed to Inquire into the Conduct of Brigadier Gen. J. Wilkinson. 5 folding tables. 217 pages. 8vo, disbound; foxing and browning; uncut. Washington: Roger C. Weightman, 1810

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a burr wilkinson conspiracy rarity. "Report of the congressional inquiry in relation to Wilkinson's having received money from Spain and having been an accomplice with Burr in a plot to dismember the Union. It is an important document of the conspiracy, containing the secret letters and correspondence of Carondelet, Wilkinson, Power, Philip Nolan, Portell and others; the reports of various members of the intrigue on the state of the Western Country and people; reports of observation, negotiation and travel through the Mississippi Valley from New Orleans to Detroit; with depositions of the informants, etc."--Eberstadt 134:89; Streeter Sale 1699; Tompkins 80. We could find no copy appearing at auction since the Streeter Sale.