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Letter to Gideon Welles, 1862.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 21 Folder 33
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly laid in Abbott's copy of Kit Carson, the pioneer of the West, by John S. C. Abbott, 1873, located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- Gift of Robert Dechert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 21 Folder 33
- Place of Publication:
- 1862.
- Biography/History:
- Abott was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer.
- Summary:
- Original handwritten letter from Abbott to Gideon Welles, United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869. In the letter Abbott thanks Welles for "reports of the Naval engagements on the Mississippi River."
- OCLC:
- 903047916
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