W. J. Fitzwilliam letter to Lt. Charles Wilkes th [manuscript], 1842 August 2.

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W. J. Fitzwilliam letter to Lt. Charles Wilkes th [manuscript], 1842 August 2.

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Photocopy letter from W. J. Fitzwilliam, London, England, to Lt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. Navy, Washington, S.C., 3 pp, 2 August 1842, congratulating Wilkes for a safe return from the 1838-1842 expedition.

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Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

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Wilkes was a career U.S. naval officer who, as captain of the San Jacinto, provoked the Trent Affair in 1861. From the description of Letter, November 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 61770003 Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, was born on April 3, 1798 in New York, NY. He surveyed Narragansett Bay in 1832-1833, which led to his appointment to a depot of charts and instruments, which later became the Naval Observatory. In 18...

Fitzwilliam, W. J.

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