Commandant Thomas Dornin Letter 10 September 1856
Commandants Office
Navy Yard Gosport
September 10th 1856
Sir,
The Magazine Keepers House, having been completed, and received from the hands of the contractor. I have directed the Keeper of the Magazine, (Gunner Thomas Robinson,) to move into it.
The drawings, which should have accompanied the Annual Report, being necessarily detained, for the completion of the copies of the “Ordinance” Building, which are to be finished to that Bureau, will be sent by tomorrow mail.
I am Sir Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
Thomas A. Dornin
Commandant
Commodore Joseph Smith
Chief of the Bureau of Yards & Docks
Washington City
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