Copy of a page from a Joshua Humphries letterbook
Item
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Title
Copy of a page from a Joshua Humphries letterbook
Description
Letter, discusses Jonathan Humphries' and Josiah Fox's roll in planning and constructing the early frigates.
short description
Ltr, dis J Fox's roll in frigate design
year created
1795
month created
06
day created
05
author
recipient
in collection
in image
note
Fragment. This document is a copy of a page from a Joshua Humphries letterbook, one of a few pages acquired by PPAmP from glass negatives, since destroyed, in the possession of a private collector. The page or pages proceeding this, which contain the first portion of this letter were not located.
No image?
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created note
The substance of this undated letter and another [also undated] on the same letterbook page suggests that both were written on or about 06/05/1795.
notable person/group
Timothy Pickering
Joshua Humphreys
Mr. Fox
Mr. Doughty
notable item/thing
draught
drawing
frigates
advice
assistance
dimensions
size of Scantling
mode of putting timber together & fastening it
44 gun ships
mould loft
copying
builders
laying down the 36 gun ships
facts
knowledge
merit.
notable phrase
I produced those the Frigates are to be built by without Mr Fox's advice or assistance.
These are facts I conceive had not come to your knowledge and I hope you will not consider it improper in me to state them to you at this time and altho it is so yet I do not wish to take from Mr. Fox or lessen his merit, or even give the most distant hint of his capability in this business.
These are facts I conceive had not come to your knowledge and I hope you will not consider it improper in me to state them to you at this time and altho it is so yet I do not wish to take from Mr. Fox or lessen his merit, or even give the most distant hint of his capability in this business.
document number
1795060540001
page start
1
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (0 pages) | ABC14 (0 pages) | Collection: Misc MSS | J Humphries Ltrbk p 166 |
| [view document] (0 pages) | [no image] | Collection: RF 509, Marion Brewington Papers | Partial typescript of PPAmP document. |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Joshua Humphreys | [unknown] | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Timothy Pickering | [unknown] | [n/a] |