Item #249728 Autograph Letter, signed, to B. Perry. He doesn't remember receiving a letter. Benjamin Franklin Tracy.

Autograph Letter, signed, to B. Perry. He doesn't remember receiving a letter.

Brooklyn: Nov 16, 1880.

Price: $65.00


About the item

1 page. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine, old folds.

Item #249728

Tracy was Sec. of the Navy fromn 1889-1893 in the Harrison Administration. He was noted for his role in the creation of the "New Navy", a major reform of the service, which had fallen into obsolescence after the Civil War. A major ally in this effort was naval theorist Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan.