Identifier

SC-0016-III-A-1-0080

Abstract

Handwritten letter from Peter Kelley [possibly Kelly] to Captain Thomas Melville, requesting confirmation of which of Thomas Daignew's [Thomas P. Dagnew] eyes was "destroyed and was blind" when Dagnew was admitted into Sailors' Snug Harbor. He asks Melville to provide this information without Dagnew's knowledge. Kelley appears to be on trial for injuring and blinding Dagnew but believes that Dagnew was blind in one eye before Kelley hit him in "self-defense."  

Name

Name: Kelley, Peter
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

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

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: May 3 1878
Place: Richmond (Va.)

Genre

letters (correspondence)

Physical Description

extent: 20.3 x 12.7 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital