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Letter to James Barbour, January 2, 1827, Accession #11004 , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was transfered from the Rare Books Division on February 26, 1991.
In this two page letter, John Jacob Astor, New York, New York, writes to James Barbour, Secretary of War, concerning the condition of the abandoned Fort Gansevoort, and proposing to restore the fort and the frame-house at his own expense in order to place the Fur of the American Company there until the government may need it again.
This is an electrostatic copy of the original in Barrett PS1783 .D75 1868.