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  "A LANDMARK TREATY WHICH FORGED PERMANENT FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS": RARE COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington; signed by all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant

  [GRANT, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; William Tecumseh Sherman; et al].

  Ulysses S. Grant Treaty of Washington Signed Document Collection.

  Rare collection of documents related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington including signatures of all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant, his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and the British delegation led by George Robinson, Earl de Grey and Ripon. The collection was assembled by Frederic Daustini Cremer who acted as secretary to de Grey and travelled with him and his son Viscount Goderich to Washington for the proceedings, where he also obtained letters by William Sherman amongst others for his collection and contains:  Two lined folio pages containing the signatures of the British and American signatories of the Treaty of Washington, including: the British High Commissioners (George Robinson, the Earl de Grey and Ripon (chairman), Stafford Northcote, Edward Thornton, John Macdonald and Montague Bernard) and the American delegation (U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (chairman), Robert Schenck, Samuel Nelson, Ebenezer Hoar and George Williams), with seven other protagonists. 2 pages, folio, written on recto only on lined paper, watermark 'Department of State/ US', creased, page one affixed to an album leaf, page two loose, dated at head "May 8 1871 11am." A portrait photograph of President Ulysses S. Grant seated in an armc...

  Price: $20,000.00     Item Number: 143272

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