Identifier

SC-0016-III-A-1-0055

Abstract

Two handwritten letters from Mrs. Grace A. Glenney. One letter, from February 15, 1877, is directed to the Superintendent of the Seamen's Retreat and the second, from February 19, 1877, is directed to the Superintendent of Sailors' Snug Harbor. In both letters, Glenney describes her son, Daniel W. Glenney, also known as Captain William D. McClain, who has gone missing after leaving New Haven in May 1876, declaring his intention to go to Bellevue Hospital. She asks if he is an inmate at the institutions in question and explains that his father was H. P. Glenney, captain of the Jersey City police. The third letter, folded and pasted to form a flattened cylinder, is dated February 16, 1877, from C. Henry King, of the Seamen's Retreat Hospital, to Captain Thomas Melville, stating that the described individual has not been an inmate of the Hospital.

Name

Name: Glenney, Grace A., 1813-1892
Role: Author

Name: King, C. Henry (Charles Henry), 1843-1883
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Seamen's Fund and Retreat (N.Y.)

Name: Melville, Thomas, 1830-1884
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor

Type Of Resource

Texts

Note

The Sailors' Snug Harbor records are the Property of the Trustees of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor. The collection is on permanent loan at the Stephen B. Luce Library of SUNY Maritime College.

Origin Info

Date Created: February 15 1877
Place: New Haven (Conn.)
; Date Created: February 19 1877
Place: New Haven (Conn.)
; Date Created: February 16 1877
Place: Stapleton (New York, N.Y.)

Genre

letters (correspondence)

Physical Description

extent: 20.3 x 25.2 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital
; extent: 17.5 x 6.5 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital