[United States State Papers]:

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STATE PAPERS AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHIBITING A COMPLETE VIEW OF OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME [1797 - ... An important collection of United States state papers and foreign relations documents during the important period from 1789 through 1815, including Washington's first speech to Congress, his message on the situation with Algiers, Pickering's letter to Pinckney (while the latter was plenipotentiary of the United States in Paris), and many others of equal importance. The volumes also contain documents relating to French depredations on American vessels; messages relative to affairs with Spain on the Mississippi; intercourse with Indians; the XYZ Affair; commerce with St. Domingo; Jefferson's inaugural addresses of March 4, 1801 and March 4, 1805; documents concerning the Barbary Powers; notices of treaty negotiations from Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney; reports and lists of captured American vessels; and extensive official correspondence regarding U.S. relations with the European powers. This is the first edition of Wait's "State Papers" compilation, which is listed under two separate entries in Sabin, of three and five volumes, respectively, for a total of eight volumes in a complete set (the second volume of the three-volume set is lacking here). A second edition in ten volumes appeared in 1817. See Sabin for an extensive note on this useful collection. Prior to the beginning of the stan

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