One-page autograph letter signed to Lieutenants Joseph Myers and Wm. D. Newman, Sailing Master G. G. Williamson, and Purser And’w J. Watson

by Melancthon Taylor Woolsey, U. S N., Captain

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

On board the U.S. Ship Lexington at Rio de Janeiro: August 12, 1833. Folio, previous folds, very good. You will hold a strict and careful survey on all articles which were in the store previous to the arrival of the Brig Serene, ascertaining the state, condition and quantities of such as shall be condemned and also the probable cause of the deterioration of such as you shall condemn and report the result to me. Woolsey 1782-1838 joined the Navy as a

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