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Letter 75: To R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877-December-11

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December 11, 1877 letter to R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, informing him that an inquiry into the condition oft he Engineering department of the Pensacola Navy Yard was underway. 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 75: To R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877-December-11.
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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: 1877-12-11
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 11, 1877 letter to R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, informing him that an inquiry into the condition oft he Engineering department of the Pensacola Navy Yard was underway. 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_Page072 (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime History and Heritage Digital Portal
Subject(s): Military Justice -- 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_Page072
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF