<P> I. Top to be covered in Morocco Leather & embossed to order . </P> <P> An image of the Desk purporting to be the "Gift" delivered to President Hayes appeared as a steel engraving in the December 11, 1880 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, captioned: "Secretaire Made From the Timbers of the British Arctic Ship' Resolute' and Presented by Queen Victoria to the President of the United States". Beneath the half page image is a related article, which describes the Desk inaccurately: </P> <P> The design for the secretaire is the work of a working - joiner employed at the dockyard at Chatham . England, where the Resolute was broken up . The top is covered with morocco, bordered and embossed . The front panels contained carved medallion portraits of Her Majesty and the President of the United States; the side panels, Arctic subjects, also in relief; and the space at the back of the table, corresponding with the front panels, is furnished with a set of six drawers on either side, the handles of which are formed by two hands--male and female--grasping each other, symbolic of the goodwill existing between the heads of the two countries . The top cornices of the eight corner pedestals were appropriated to carved representations of the Arctic and Antarctic circles and the American and English flags crossed, while busts of celebrated arctic explorers support the cornices . </P> <P> The image and the written description in the newspaper article are not of the Evenden President's Desk delivered on November 23, 1880, but depicts the desk in the Admiralty's September 9, 1879 design plan for the library table . </P>

History of the resolute desk in the oval office