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Commandant S. H. Stringham Letter 23 April 1851

Commandants Office
Navy Yard Gosport
April 23rd 1851

Sir,
The stone and timber materials under contract and now in course of delivery for the Powder Magazine at Fort Norfolk was intended for a building far different, from that, plans of which was received with your letter of the 3rd December last. My attention has just been called to it; and I have directed schedules of the additional materials required to be purchased and will forward them by tomorrow mail.

I am Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
S. H. Stringham
Captain

Comm Joseph Smith
Chief of the Burrow of Yards & Docks
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National Archives, Record Group 71 Bureau of Yards and Docks

Letters Recieved from Commandants of Navy Yards -- Norfolk

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Box No. 156, Entry 5