Letter to Captain Thomas Melville, Governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor, from Charles B. Whiting, July 31, 1882
Identifier
SC-0016-III-A-1-0245Abstract
Handwritten letter from Charles B. Whiting, of Logansport, Indiana, to Captain Thomas Melville, informing him that he had only just received notice that day regarding the death of his father, Captain Samuel Whiting, at Sailors' Snug Harbor. He asks that his father be buried at Sailors' Snug Harbor so that Whiting can have them moved to the family plot in the cemetery at Hempstead, Long Island in the fall. He also asks Melville to send his father's effects and death certificate and bemoans the fact that his father, previously the captain of steamships such as the Marion and Columbia had died friendless at the Snug Harbor.
Name
Name: Whiting, Charles B.Role: Author
Name: Melville, Thomas, 1830-1884
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)
Type Of Resource
TextsNote
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: July 31 1882Place: Logansport (Ind.)
Genre
letters (correspondence)Physical Description
extent: 25.5 x 20.2 cmDigital Origin: Reformatted digital
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