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  • Some mysterious sympathy: the foundations of friendship
  • Evident advantages: origins and objectives
  • Seward's chimerical project: public reaction and ratification
  • No longer Russian America: taking possession of Alaska
  • Paying for the "new national ice-house": approval and appropriation
  • Very uneasy and vexed: international reactions to the purchase
  • That snow-bound wilderness: from treaty to territory.