Marine hospitals : letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the last Congress, relative to the establishment of Marine Hospitals at Buffalo, Oswego, Galveston, Detroit, Wilmington, North Carolina; Newport, Rhode Island; Erie, Pennsylvania, and Apalachicola.

  • Meredith, William M. (William Morris), 1799-1873.
Date:
[1850?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Marine hospitals : letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the last Congress, relative to the establishment of Marine Hospitals at Buffalo, Oswego, Galveston, Detroit, Wilmington, North Carolina; Newport, Rhode Island; Erie, Pennsylvania, and Apalachicola. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Buffalo, December 10, 1849. Dear Sir: Father wishes me to say to you that he is anxious to effect a sale of his land to the government, and if it becomes neeessary to effect it he will fall a dollar or a dollar and a half from his price, bringing it down to $13 50 or $14. He deems it better than the other prices that have been offered, inasmuch as it fronts on a wider street, and is also on the corner of two streets. Accept his and my thanks for your kindness in sending us documents, and believe me yours, very respectfully, Wi\L F. MILLER. Hon. E. G. Spaulding. Buffalo, December 1, 1849. We, the undersigned, offer to sell the piece-of land ronning from Fifth street to Fourth street and along the line of Hudson street—166£ feet on Fifth and Fourth streets, and 401^ feet on Hudson street—for the sum of five thousand dollars, ($5,000;) or the whole lot from Fifth street to Third' street, (on the bank of the Erie canal,) being 166^ feet on Fifth street and Third street, by 667^ feet on Hudson street—Fourth street not being yet opened—lbs the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, ($6,500.) JOHN JAY HOLUSTER. PETER CURTLSS. Buffalo, December 1, 1849i Dear Sir: I send you herewith a plan of a lot, for your consideration, as a site for a marine hospital You will see that it is the high) healthy, and fine grounds—part of blocks Nos. SI and 82, of this city—fronting on Fifth street. The pleasant location and beauties of the place are so well known to every one, that 1 need only say it is the Blossom Grove, to satisfy you at once that it is the most eligible and appropriate, at the same time most beautiful spot, for the purpose mentioned, there is in this city or vicinity. 1 hereby offer to sell two acres of that land, as laid down on the plan referred to, for the sum of six thousand dollars. Title indisputable. I am, sir, yours, truly, ALAN SON PALMER. Captain Levi Allen, Collector of the port of Buffalo Creek, New York-