NAVAL HISTORY, U.S.]. PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD. Autograph letter signed as Secretary of the Navy, 23 December 1813, East River, New York, 23 December 1813, 1 page, folio , Perry to an unnamed correspondent from the U.S.S. Java , captured from the British by the Constitution just a year before, recommending a young seaman "...about fourteen years old, well educated for a boy of that age and has already given proof of an active turn for the naval profession...I shall take him out in the Java as a volunteer...." -- FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASGOW, Admiral . Autograph letter signed to Henry Coppe, Mobile Bay, 4 November 1864, 2 pages, 4to, blindstamped, tipped to another sheet , written from the flagship Hartford (from which Farragut had fought the Battle of Mobile Bay in August) to a Philadelphia editor who had requested "a sketch of my life & my Photograph. I regret to say that I have neither the sight nor the time to write such a paper...P.S. the majority of persons think the enclosed Photograph [not present] the best likeness, to which you are most welcome." -- LAWRENCE, JAMES, Captain . Autograph letter signed to Thomas Turner New York, 9 June 1811, 2 pages, 4to, tipped to another sheet , best known for his battle-cry "Don't give up the ship!," Lawrence recommends a Sargent Weatherby, referring to the well-known American vessel, the Wasp . Together three items . (3)
NAVAL HISTORY, U.S.]. PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD. Autograph letter signed as Secretary of the Navy, 23 December 1813, East River, New York, 23 December 1813, 1 page, folio , Perry to an unnamed correspondent from the U.S.S. Java , captured from the British by the Constitution just a year before, recommending a young seaman "...about fourteen years old, well educated for a boy of that age and has already given proof of an active turn for the naval profession...I shall take him out in the Java as a volunteer...." -- FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASGOW, Admiral . Autograph letter signed to Henry Coppe, Mobile Bay, 4 November 1864, 2 pages, 4to, blindstamped, tipped to another sheet , written from the flagship Hartford (from which Farragut had fought the Battle of Mobile Bay in August) to a Philadelphia editor who had requested "a sketch of my life & my Photograph. I regret to say that I have neither the sight nor the time to write such a paper...P.S. the majority of persons think the enclosed Photograph [not present] the best likeness, to which you are most welcome." -- LAWRENCE, JAMES, Captain . Autograph letter signed to Thomas Turner New York, 9 June 1811, 2 pages, 4to, tipped to another sheet , best known for his battle-cry "Don't give up the ship!," Lawrence recommends a Sargent Weatherby, referring to the well-known American vessel, the Wasp . Together three items . (3)
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