North Pacific Squadron commander, letters received and forwarded, 1868.

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North Pacific Squadron commander, letters received and forwarded, 1868.

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The North Pacific Squadron Commander, Letters Received and Forwarded, consists of one copybook of letters received by commanders of the United States Navy's North Pacific Squadron (Rear Admirals Thomas T. Craven and Henry Knox Thatcher) in the period 15 June through 24 December 1868. The book includes copies of letters sent by commanders of the vessels Ossipee, Cyane, Lackawanna, Saranac, and Saginaw from various ports in California and Mexico, as well as from Panama, Honolulu, Hawaii, Victoria, British Columbia, and Sitka, Alaska. The collection also includes typed transcriptions of five of the letters found in the copybook. Four of them are letters from Lt. Commander John G. Mitchell, commander of the Saginaw, and were dispatched from Sitka and Victoria in the period 15 June through 31 August 1868. They describe social and economic conditions in Southeast Alaska and the Navy's relations with the region's Native inhabitants. The fifth transcribed letter is from an officer of the Saranac, 26 October 1868, reporting the murder of John G. Mitchell in San Francisco.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7331527

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Craven, Thomas, 1808-1887

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