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Box 1

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Contains 1 Result:

James Barron Hope, no place, to Jane A. (Barron) Hope, no place, post 23 March 1851 - ante 23 March 1852.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176268
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. His ship's neat and warlike appearance; Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and "the peculiarities of these Negro Legislators, & their country"; encounters a funeral; dismisses the "free and easy, devil-may-care habits of these places"; wants her to write him at his next destination, Pensacola, Florida; a dispatch just arrived informing the crew that "the Commodore ?" is in a nearby town; details his efforts to become a good and moral man.

Dates: 1820-1923