first edition, quarto, [viii], [1] - 86, CXXXII, 20 pp., dis-bound, retains front wrapper, rear wrap lacking, small hand-stamps on front wrapper, else a very good copy.

Very Scarce. Presents official documents pertaining to Mexico's international relations for this period. The work is of high interest for Texas as it contains documents and correspondence pertaining to George Wilkins Kendall and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.

The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a politico-military-commercial expedition of 1841, was occasioned by President Mirabeau B. Lamar's desire to divert to Texas at least a part of the trade then carried over the Santa Fe Trail and, if possible, to establish Texas jurisdiction over the Santa Fe area, which the Republic of Texas claimed on the basis of an act of December 19, 1836. Lamar in addition to establishing a trade route sought to effect a union between the government of Texas and New Mexico. The party set out on June 19, 1841 from Kenney's Fort, numbering 321 and with 21 ox drawn wagons.

The expedition finally arrived in New Mexico in September 1841 after a difficult journey. The party instead of being welcomed was met and surrounded by 1500 soldiers of the Mexican Army. The Texans, reduced in number and broken in health were taken prisoner and marched to Mexico City. They were subjected to many indignities both en route and after their imprisonment in Mexico. The affair became the subject of a heated diplomatic controversy between the United States and Mexico (official documents from both sides appear in the present volume) before most of the prisoners were finally released in April 1842. Although generally considered a failure, the expedition stimulated a renewal of interest in Texas within both the United States and Mexico and formed a basis for Texas's claim to western territory.

Not in Sabin, Decker, Eberstadt, Graff, Streeter, Texas, etc. OCLC locates nine institutional holdings.