US Navy: Officers' ALS Collection, [before 1910].

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US Navy: Officers' ALS Collection, [before 1910].

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The collection consists of a one-volume hand-written index of all the autograph letters signed owned by John Sanford Barnes, with details about many and his additional annotations in red. Some of the letters are included in his extra-illustrated edition of James Fenimore Cooper's "History of the Navy of the United States" (see NHSC - Cooper), some in the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection (NHSC - Misc. Manuscripts), and others in various volumes from the Naval History Society's Library now cataloged in the XN section at New-York Historical Society.

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