Letter from Sitka, Alaska about the Angoon incident

Collection

Identifier: MS 4-22-12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Includes letter, both holograph and typescript, and accompanying information about the letter writer and circumstances around which the letter was written.

Dates

1882

Conditions Governing Access

Manuscript is open to research.

Conditions Governing Use

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.

Biographical / Historical

Letter begun Nov. 6, 1882, and continued the 20th and 24th of November, from "Frank, " an unidentified American naval officer on the USS Adams to "Charlie" in Massachusetts; Frank was stationed at Sitka, Alaska, and writes of the destruction of the Tlingit village of Angoon on Admiralty Island on October 26, 1882; he also reports on the voyage to Alaska, and life in Sitka. Frank is probably Frank H. Clark, Assistant to the Paymaster, who served on the USS Adams, Pacific Station, from 1881 to 1884.