Matthew Calbraith Perry letters to John L. Cunningham, 1856-1857.

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Matthew Calbraith Perry letters to John L. Cunningham, 1856-1857.

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Six ALS from Commodore Perry to John L. Cunningham, a member of the Navy Department in Washington, D.C. Perry asks Cunningham about prize money from his service on the steamer McLane, the whereabouts of the third volume of his published report on the expedition to Japan, and gives his opinion of naval enlistment and manifest destiny.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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