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Letter 67: To R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877-November-2

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Letter to R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, dated November 2, 1877 which accompanied a Requisition for Postage stamps required by this Pensacola Navy Yard. The letter itself is frail, thin to the point of transparency, and has been eaten away at some points by rust due to the iron based ink used in penning the correspondence.The page number of the ledger this letter was copied into appears in the upper right. Parts of another letter are clearly visible through the paper itself as well.
Title: Letter 67: To R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877-November-2.
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Name(s): R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, Recipient
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Letter
Issuance: single unit
Date Created: 1877-11-02
Publisher: West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the UWF Historic Trust
Place of Publication: Pensacola, FL
Extent: 1 letter copy from ledger
Language(s): Eng
Summary: Letter to R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, dated November 2, 1877 which accompanied a Requisition for Postage stamps required by this Pensacola Navy Yard. The letter itself is frail, thin to the point of transparency, and has been eaten away at some points by rust due to the iron based ink used in penning the correspondence.The page number of the ledger this letter was copied into appears in the upper right. Parts of another letter are clearly visible through the paper itself as well.
Identifier: uwfHT_NYC_Box1_1877-1878_Correspondence_Page018 (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime History and Heritage Digital Portal
Subject(s): Military History -- Naval History -- Pensacola, Florida -- Gulf Coast -- Late 19th-Century
Held by: University of West Florida Archives
Held by: University of West Florida Resource Center, Hilton-Green Room
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwfHT_NYC_Box1_1877-1878_Correspondence_Page018
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF