Letter to the Superintendent of Sailors' Snug Harbor from E. H. Hart, January 10, 1883
Identifier
SC-0016-III-A-1-0271Abstract
Handwritten letter from E. H. Hart, of Federal Point, Florida, to the Superintendent of Sailors' Snug Harbor, asking if Captain Sam Whiting, who died of suicide the previous year [1882] left any papers or journals. Hart is interested in them because Hart's father, Benjamin H. Hart, was a relative of Whiting and sailed with him on what was their first voyage, on the McClellan, in approximately 1830. Received while Captain Thomas Melville was governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor. [Cataloger's note: The letter is dated January 10, 1882, but the notation on the back corrects this to 1883 and, as Whiting died in 1882, the letter is presumably from 1883.]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: January 10 1883Place: Federal Point (Fla.)
Genre
letters (correspondence)Physical Description
extent: 20.2 x 12.5 cmDigital Origin: Reformatted digital
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