Identifier

SC-0016-III-A-1-0132

Abstract

Handwritten letter from "the undersigned inmates of Room No. 107 of the middle building" to Captain Ambrose Snow and referred on to Captain Thomas Melville, Governor, Sailors' Snug Harbor. The writers request that Oscar Stone, one of the inmates of Room 107, be moved out of the room, as "at this season of the year [winter] the Room warmed with Steam and little or not draft of outside air, the effluvia is very disagreeable." 

Name

Name: Collamore, Samuel
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Hawk, John, -1900
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Peterson, Daniel, -1896
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Prince, William H., -1888
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Snow, Ambrose, 1813-1895
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

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

Type Of Resource

Texts

Note

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

Origin Info

Date Created: December 1878
Place: New Brighton (New York, N.Y.)

Genre

letters (correspondence)

Physical Description

extent: 20.5 x 25.3 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital