Letter, 1842 March 15, West Point [to] William S. Robinson, Lowell, Mass.

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Letter, 1842 March 15, West Point [to] William S. Robinson, Lowell, Mass.

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Humorist. Letter, talking of mutual friends and how Derby is getting along at the Academy.

4 p. ; 25 cm.

United States Military Academy, USMA Library

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United States Military Academy, USMA Library

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Robinson, William S., fl. 1842.

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861

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George Horatio Derby was born on April 3, 1823, in Dedham, Massachusetts. He graduated from West Point in 1846 and served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Topographic Corps. He mapped the San Diego River in 1853 before moving to San Francisco in 1854 to marry Mary A. Coons. While in San Francisco, Derby began writing satiric articles for the San Francisco Herald and California Pioneer Magazine, for which he used the pseudonyms "John P. Squibob" and "John Phoenix." Derby died of a possible brain ...