PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu02658::"Denmark and the Treaty")//EN" "viu02658.xml" A Guide to "Denmark and the Treaty," September 1902"Denmark and the Treaty" 6780-g Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2002 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by Alicia Pearia, 5/31/2002 Description is in English Feb 20, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu02658::"Denmark and the Treaty")//EN" "viu02658.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to "Denmark and the Treaty," September 1902 A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library The Special Collections Department 6780-g

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2002 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library "Denmark and the Treaty," September 1902 6780-g This collection consists of a 25-page manuscript, AMsS, bound in a blue morocco cover. English Gertrude Atherton Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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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."