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Letters of John Paul Jones
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A collection of 40 miscellaneous letters, documents and one volume related to John Paul Jones. The collection includes correspondence and documents in English and French which deal with the disposition of the prisoners of war and refitting American ships of war, and Jones's career as U.S. agent in Europe. Also included are Jones's application to the Society of Cincinnati (1783), and a deposition of the officers of the Alliance defending their actions in the engagement between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis (1779). Other correspondents include Paul Francois de Quelen duc de La Vauguyon and Antoine Raymond Jean Sartine, comte d'Alby. The volume, bound in red morocco leather, is titled "Unpublished Autograph Letters / JNO Paul Jones" and includes letters by Jones, with some prints and transcriptions; the volume also includes five letters to William Bixby from George H. Richmond, Bookseller, concerning the Jones' letters.
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Typewritten letter from the Sixth District Agricultural Association addressed to those "claiming to be a Board of Directors of Sixth District Agricultural Association, elected by the so-called stock holders" and mailed to H.H. Kerchoff. The letter orders the addressees to turn all property of the Board over to the president of the Agricultural Association along with an accounting of their proceeds from that property.
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