Doyle, John T.

In the International Arbitral Court of the Hague. The Case of the Pious Fund of California.

San Francisco Geo. Spaulding & Co. 1906, First edition. 106pp. Original unsewn and untrimmed signature sections, housed in a custom cloth chemise folder with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Light soiling, chiefly to title page. A fine copy. Proceedings of the attempt to reclaim the Pious Fund of the Californias from the Government of Mexico for the Catholic Archdiocese in California. Employed by the Archdiocese, the author was chief counsel for the case and presented one of the winning arguments at The Hague in 1902. Doyle was also the founding President of the California Historical Society. Doyle wrote numerous works concerning the Pious Fund, this being the scarcest. Cowen states, "This unusual document was rigidly suppressed." "This rare treatise... was rigidly suppressed by the Doyle family for its reflections on the person of the Most Reverend Patrick W. Riordan, Archbishop of San Francisco" (Weber). [Cowan: p.180; Rocq: 9217; Weber, Select Guide...: p.30].

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