No. 15. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, (confidential,) August 17, 1843. Mr.
Everett thinks the negotiation can be best carried on at Washington.
No. 16. Mr. Upshur to Mr. Everett, October 9, 1843. Full powers are sent
to Mr. Everett to negotiate on the Oregon boundary..
No. 17. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, November 2, 1843, (confidential.) The
negotiation transferred to Washington...
No. 18. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, November 14, 1843. Mr. Everett argues
for the parallel of 49°. He suggests a deflection from 49° would leave
to Great Britain the whole of Vancouver Island........
No. 19. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, (confidential,) December 2, 1843. Mr.
Everett and Lord Aberdeen discuss the boundary. Mr. Everett points
out on a map the deflection from 49° that would leave Vancouver to
Great Britain....
Mr. Everett to Lord Aberdeen, November 30, 1843. Mr. Everett presents
his proposition to Lord Aberdeen in writing
No. 20. Mr. Everett to Mr. Nelson, April 1, 1844. Mr. Everett and Lord
Aberdeen continue the discussion. Mr. Everett thinks that Great
Britain will accept the line of 49° with the proposed deflection......
No. 21. Extract of a lecture delivered by Mr. William Sturgis before the
Mercantile Library Association of Boston, January 22, 1845. Views
of Mr. Sturgis...
No. 22. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, February 28, 1845. Mr. Everett
thinks that the line of 49° deflected, so as to give the whole of Van-
couver to Great Britain, is all that either party will concede.....
No. 23. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, March 7, 1845. Lord Ashburton
thinks there will be not much difficulty in coming to an adjustment.
No. 24. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, April 2, 1845, (confidential.) Mr.
Sturgis's pamphlet regarded by a friend of the British ministry as
fair and candid...
No. 25. Lord Ashburton to Mr. Sturgis, April 2, 1845. Lord Ashburton
regards Mr. Sturgis's pamphlet as distinct and impartial....
No. 26. Mr. Bates to Mr. Sturgis, May 1, 1845, (confidential.) Lord Aber-
deen pronounces Mr. Sturgis's pamphlet clear and sensible...
Extract from an article by Mr. senior, in the [London] Examiner,
No. 1943, Saturday, April 26, 1845. The only real claim of the Brit-
ish rests on contiguity.
No. 27. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the
years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, by Charles Wilkes, United States
Navy, commander of the expedition, in five volumes, and an atlas:
Philadelphia, 1845, vol. iv, chapter xiv, 1841, page 484. Wilkes sur-
veys Canal de Haro in July, 1841....
No. 28. Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Pakenham, (extract,) July 12, 1845. Mr.
Buchanan offers the line of 49° with free ports on Vancouver.
No. 29. Mr. Pakenham to Mr. Buchanan, (extract,) July 29, 1845. Mr.
Pakenham rejects Mr. Buchanan's offer..
No. 30. Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Pakenham, (extract,) August 30, 1845. Mr.
Buchanan withdraws his offer.....
No. 31. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, October 3, 1845.
censures the rejection of the American proposition
ham.....
No. 32. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, December 1, 1845. Lord Aberdeen
would have taken Mr. Buchanan's offer as the basis of negotiations..