Letter

[732] No. 1., this 7th day of October, 1871

[732] No. 1.

On the arrival of the Alabama at this port in August, 1863, I heard that the vessel required calking, and I went on board to see Captain Semmes. I arranged with him to do the work required within a period of five days. I calked her topsides and decks, and when the work was completed, I was paid the sum of forty pounds and fourteen shillings by the paymaster on board the vessel.

A. N. BLURK,
Budge & Blurk, Shipwrights.

P. H. MARTIN,
Justice of the Peace for the District of Simon’s Town.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.