Letterbook of Thomas Aloysius Dornin, 1860, May 15 -- 1861, Sept. 16.

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Letterbook of Thomas Aloysius Dornin, 1860, May 15 -- 1861, Sept. 16.

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The letterbook that Dornin kept while in command of the San Jacinto, from May 14, 1860 and August 8, 1861. The correspondents include Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, officers of Africa Squadron, the sailors and officers under his command, and the United States consul in Monrovia. Included are reports of captured slavers.

99 pages, 32 cm., bound volume.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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