A Guide to "Denmark and the Treaty," September 1902 "Denmark and the Treaty" 6780-g

A Guide to "Denmark and the Treaty," September 1902

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6780-g

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

6780-g

Title

"Denmark and the Treaty," September 1902

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of a 25-page manuscript, AMsS, bound in a blue morocco cover.

Creator

Gertrude Atherton

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Gertrude Atherton, "Denmark and the Treaty," Accession #6780-g , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased by the Library from David G. Holmes, Autographs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 1995.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of an original holograph working manuscript entitled "Denmark and the Treaty" written by Gertrude Atherton at Copenhagen, with substantial pen and ink revisions, criticizing the principals involved in the "negotiations between the United States and Denmark regarding the projected sale of the Virgin Islands." She defends the necessity of the purchase, "But a harbor in the West Indies we must have, and Denmark possesses two at the very gateway of those waters which divide the Americas and bristle with fort of foreign powers. Some day the great canal will be built, and we must be able to strike quickly when it is menaced. Some day the Monroe Doctrine will be ignored, and the blow will be dealt in the Carribean Sea. Germany's amibitions are almost ingeneous. The menace of Russia is known to every student of the times: she has never retraced a step, and she has never ceased to advance; her movements are as firm as deliberate as they are stealthy."