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Letter 76: To Commodore Daniel Ammen, Bureau of Navigation, 1877-December-10

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Summary:
December 10, 1877 letter to Daniel Ammen, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, informing him that the Light House Steamer "Dandelion" kept the specimen cylinders intended for the "Blake" on board to ship them to Key West personally due to the Express Office in Pensacola being unable to take them further than Cedar Key. This would have entailed another month's journey to Key West. For reasons unknown, the word "Annulled" is written in blue across the letter and much of is slashed across by the same color. The paper 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 76: To Commodore Daniel Ammen, Bureau of Navigation, 1877-December-10.
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Name(s): Commodore Daniel Ammen, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Recipient
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Letter
Issuance: single unit
Date Created: 1877-12-10
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 10, 1877 letter to Daniel Ammen, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, informing him that the Light House Steamer "Dandelion" kept the specimen cylinders intended for the "Blake" on board to ship them to Key West personally due to the Express Office in Pensacola being unable to take them further than Cedar Key. This would have entailed another month's journey to Key West. For reasons unknown, the word "Annulled" is written in blue across the letter and much of is slashed across by the same color. The paper 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_Page071 (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime History and Heritage Digital Portal
Subject(s): Coast Survey -- Naval History -- Environmental History -- Postal History -- Gulf Coast -- Pensacola, Florida -- Late 19th-Century -- Military 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_Page071
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Host Institution: UWF