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Box 24

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

David G. Farragut letter, 1858 Dec 17

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 453
Scope and Contents

Autographed letter signed to Paul Langdon Norfolk, Va., asking him to serve as his clerk in USS Brooklyn assigned to the Gulf of Mexico. Farragut states that the pay and the travel are not inducements, but he would be pleased if Langdon accepted. Farragut discusses his orders for a trial cruise and other candidates for captain's clerk.

Dates: 1858 Dec 17