United States Squadron in the Pacific Ocean, Quarterly Return of Receipts, 1837-1838

Summary

Creators:

United States. Navy

Extent:

.2 linear feet (1 bound volume)

Language:

English.

Background

Scope and content:

1 bound volume, Quarterly Return of Receipts and Expenditures of Provisions and Stores for the United States Squadron in the Pacific Ocean, June 1, 1837 to January 1838, while at Callao Castle [Peru] and Valparaiso [Argentina]. Includes figures for food, clothing, and miscellaneous stores such as anchors, cables, cordage, spars, barrels, linseed oil, pitch, tar, and paint.

Biographical / historical:

Information about the United States Squadron in the Pacific Ocean may be found in printed works such as:

• Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the Frigate United States, with Notes on Herman Melville, edited by Charles Roberts Anderson (1937).
• United States, Office of Naval Records and Library. Letters Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons, 1841-1886: Pacific Squadron, 1841-1886.

Acquisition information:

Purchase.

Physical location:

Vault

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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