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Letter 68: To R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877-November-15

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Summary:
Letter to R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, dated November 15, 1877 regarding a yellow fever quarantine that had been passed on Saturday, November 14th as no cases were found. The letter accompanied a communication from Mayor J. P. Jones of Pensacola concerning an official end to the quarantine. 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 68: To R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877-November-15.
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Name(s): R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, Recipient
J. P. Jones, Referenced
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Letter
Issuance: single unit
Date Created: 1877-11-15
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 15, 1877 regarding a yellow fever quarantine that had been passed on Saturday, November 14th as no cases were found. The letter accompanied a communication from Mayor J. P. Jones of Pensacola concerning an official end to the quarantine. 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_Page027 (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime History and Heritage Digital Portal
Subject(s): Naval History -- Military History -- Environmental History -- History of Medicine -- Yellow Fever -- Gulf Coast -- Pensacola, Florida -- 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_Page027
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Host Institution: UWF