Manuscripts

Official correspondence, copies

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Description: Copies and extracts from letter books: Officers' Letters; Letters to Officers of Ships of War; Letters of the Brazil Squadron; Papers Relating to the Brazil Squadron, and others, 1853-1884. Copies concern a controversy relating to the sue of the Episcopal liturgy by the Navy; in the hand of Captain Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain, U.S.N.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1884.
Call number: mssHM 196
Creator: United States(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Probably acquired through Henkles, October 26, 1922. From the collection of Captain R.R. Hoes.

West Coast of Mexico : from Mazatlan to Texacatita Bay

Rare Books

"From a Survey by Commdr. Geo. Dewey, U.S.N. and the Officers of the U. S. Ship Naragansett in 1873-1875." "R. H. Wyman, Commo. U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation. Paciic Coast Series of General Navigating Charts from Cape Horn to the Behring Straits. No. 622. Stamp:Aug 31 1905 the date of issue from the Hydrographic Office." Sub map: Revilla Gigedo Islands. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps.

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

The William Marton Gable correspondence consists primarily of letters from Gable to his mother, Martha Gable and his sister from 1852 to 1864. The letters cover the entire period of Gable's service in the Union Army and contain descriptions of the camp life, hospitals, the military actions, including the bombardment of Fort Pulaski and the Battle of South Mountain. Also included are two prewar promissory notes, Gable's disability discharge, and letters from Gable's chaplain and commanding officers regarding the circumstances of his death and pension rights.

mssHM 49347-49419

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William Marton Gable correspondence

Manuscripts

The William Marton Gable correspondence consists primarily of letters from Gable to his mother, Martha Gable and his sister from 1852 to 1886. The letters cover the entire period of Gable's service in the Union Army and contain descriptions of the camp life, hospitals, the military actions, including the bombardment of Fort Pulaski and the Battle of South Mountain. Also included are two prewar promissory notes, Gable's disability discharge, and letters from Gable's chaplain and commanding officers regarding the circumstances of his death and pension rights.

mssHM 49347-49419

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Correspondence on the United States Mint in San Francisco

Manuscripts

Letters, telegraphs, and receipts relating to the operations of the United States Mint at San Francisco. The items mainly focus on shipping bullion from Philadelphia to San Francisco and accounting discrepancies between the Treasury Department and the San Francisco Mint. Includes correspondence from United States Treasurers Samuel Casey and James Guthrie.

mssHM 73744-73748

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Thoams Aloysius Dornin letterbook

Manuscripts

The letterbook that Dornin kept while in command of the San Jacinto, from May 14, 1860 and August 8, 1861. The correspondents include Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, officers of Africa Squadron, the sailors and officers under his command, and the United States consul in Monrovia. Included are reports of captured slavers. The last two letters, dated Sept. 9 and 16, 1861, were written onboard the Constellation. Includes laid in letter from John L. Broome regarding prizeship Bonito, 1873.

mssHM 30206

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American French Relations

Manuscripts

Copies of the original correspondence relative to the French captures and the spoliations of American seamen, the Genet Affair, and the treaty with Great Britain, including copies of letters by Edmond Randolph, Timothy Pickering, George Washington, Joseph Fauchet and P.A. Adet.

mssHM 709

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