Letter

Lieutenant-Commandant Eben Farrand , Commanding United States Schooner Flirt, off Navy-Yard to Lieutenant-Commander Farrand, United States Navy, August 23, 1849

Commandant Newton, United States Navy, to Lieutenant-Commander Farrand, United States Navy.

Sir: You will be pleased to prepare the United States schooner Flirt, under your command, for sea with all possible dispatch. It is highly important that all possible dispatch and diligence be used in getting her ready.

I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,

  • JOHN THOMAS NEWTON, Commandant.
  • Lieutenant-Commandant Eben Farrand, Commanding United States Schooner Flirt, off Navy-Yard.
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.