Lewis Randolph Hamersly Collection, 1870, 1872, 1878 (bulk, 1870).

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Lewis Randolph Hamersly Collection, 1870, 1872, 1878 (bulk, 1870).

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The collection includes one volume of 289 letters received after the publication of Hamersly's 1870 and 1878 editions of "The records of living officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corp, Compiled from Official Sources." They include orders to purchase the publications and updates to officers' records in the previous edition, sometimes annotated on clippings from it.

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New-York Historical Society Library

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New-York Historical Society Library

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Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910

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