Typer Letter Signed on "Department of the Navy" letterhead
Washington, D.C. 1899. 2 pages, each two-page spread measuring 8 x 9.75 inches, Washington, D.C., September 29, 1899. Written to John Hyde, Editor-in-Chief of the National Geographic Magazine, in part: "...I have always taken a great interest in the Isthmian Canal problem, and nothing would please me more than to comply with your request (for an article) if it were possible for me to give it the necessary time, but as I said before, it is quite out of the..... More