MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMUNICATING...COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO. JUNE 15, 1842.
[Washington]: 1842. 27th Cong., 2d Sess. SD325. 104pp, disbound, minor foxing, Very Good.
"(T)he correspondence respecting certain citizens of the United States captured with the Texan expedition to Santa Fe, and held in confinement in Mexico." Claims that prisoners had no hostile designs on Mexico, but were merely "traders, tourists, travellers, men of letters..." Among these is the son of Kentucky Governor Leslie Combs, as well as David Snively, and Kendall of the New Orleans Picayune.
"(A) mine of information on the prisoners of the Santa Fe Expedition." Streeter. "One of the most important Congressional documents concerning the Santa Fe expedition..." Rittenhouse.
Streeter, Texas 1433. Rittenhouse 563. Item #28822
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