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- GLC#
- GLC04572.46-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 16 July 1878
- Author/Creator
- Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891
- Title
- to William Lewis Maury
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : envelope Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Includes a letter for Maury to forward to the Collector (of Customs in New York). Failed to get the endorsement of any cabinet members because they are too busy, and presumes that if they knew the vacancy existed they would want to fill it with their own people. Admiral Porter was a former Union naval commander and superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy.
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