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Title

Letter from Joel R. Poinsett to Commodore David Porter, requesting dinner with he and his Secretary of Legation, John Mason.

Authors

Joel Roberts Poinsett

Files

Description

Joel R. Poinsett writes to Commodore David Porter, requesting a "family dinner with an old friend" and Poinsett's Secretary of Legation, John Mason.

Transcription

[recto] My dear Sir What has your baggage to do with your eating a plain family dinner with an old friend? So come any how in your in your frank or close bodied coat as the case may be + let us talk over old times_ I shall ask Mason to dine with us- no one else Yours truly [signed] J. R. Poinsett Wednesday Morning Com de Porter

Creation Date

1-1-1900

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1779-1851

Keywords

Joel R. Poinsett, Commodore David Porter, Porter, Poinsett, Mason, Secretary of Legation

Resource Identifier

110418-49

Date Digital

April 2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Social History | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Recommended Citation

Poinsett, Joel Roberts, "Letter from Joel R. Poinsett to Commodore David Porter, requesting dinner with he and his Secretary of Legation, John Mason." (1900). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 201.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/201

Creative Commons License

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