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Letter to Charles D. Sigsbee, Commander of the "Blake", 1877-December-7

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Summary:
December 7, 1877 letter to Lt. Commander Charles D. Sigsbee, commander of the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake" informing him that on the letter date six specimen cylinders for use in the Coast Survey were shipped and cosigned to Lt. E. B. Thomas. 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. The page number of the ledger this letter was copied into appears on the upper right. Parts of another letter are clearly visible through the paper.
Title: Letter to Charles D. Sigsbee, Commander of the "Blake", 1877-December-7.
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Name(s): Lt. Commander Charles D. Sigsbee, Recipient
Lt. E. B. Thomas, Referenced
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Letter
Issuance: single unit
Date Created: 1877-12-07
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: December 7, 1877 letter to Lt. Commander Charles D. Sigsbee, commander of the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake" informing him that on the letter date six specimen cylinders for use in the Coast Survey were shipped and cosigned to Lt. E. B. Thomas. 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. The page number of the ledger this letter was copied into appears on the upper right. Parts of another letter are clearly visible through the paper.
Identifier: uwfHT_NYC_Box1_1877-1878_Correspondence_Page066 (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime History and Heritage Digital Portal
Subject(s): Coast Survey -- Military History -- Naval History -- Pensacola, Florida -- Gulf Coast -- Late 19th-Century -- Environmental History
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_Page066
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF