A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents
prepared under the direction of the Joint committee on printing, of the House and Senate, pursuant to an act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States (with additions and encyclopedia index by private enterprise) ...

APA Citation

United States. President., Richardson, J. D. (James Daniel)., United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing. (1897). A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents. New York: Bureau of national literature, inc..

MLA Citation

United States. President, James D. (James Daniel) Richardson, and United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing. A Compilation of the Messages And Papers of the Presidents. New York: Bureau of national literature, inc., 1897.

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