5-18-1847. Tyler, John. Letter: "When the Mexican gulph [sic] shall be crowded with innumerable ships freighted with the rich production of Texas both Coastwide and outward - meeting other ships loaded with the frieghts of all the world to give in exchange - then will it be seen that my labors were not in vain to advance the highest destinies of the country...". To Robert Tyler Esq. 3 pp. Plus address leaf. (# 65)

Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and broadsides and pamphlets serving as public statements regarding the political and social events of the time. Other items of note include George F. Dunham's "A Journey to Brazil on the Good Ship Montpelier," an 1853 first hand description of slavery and plantation life in Brazil, and the first Mexico City printing (1821) of Augustin de Iturbide's Plan de Iguala.