Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 397

Price Realized: $ 115
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(TEXAS.) Annexation of Texas to the United States. Message from the President . . . respecting an Annexation of Texas to the United States. 18 pages. 8vo disbound; foxed and toned. 25th Congress, 1st Session, House Doc. No. 40. Washington, 1837

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"This [3 October 1837] message . . . sends to the House letters of General Hunt, envoy extraordinary of Texas, to John Forsyth, Secretary of State . . . Hunt's letter of August 4 was a formal request that the United States consider annexation. Forsyth's negative reply had cited the treaty obligations of the United States to Mexico"--Streeter, Texas 1297.