12 November 1861
Ericsson, John, 1803-1889
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Munn & Company
Written by Ericsson, the Swedish immigrant inventor responsible for building the first Union ironclad ship, to the Munn & Company as proprietors of the magazine "Scientific American." Writes that he is returning their article "on the subject of my battery, with some few typographical errors corrected." Pleased that they are putting the matter before their readers entirely on its own merits. File also has 2 pages torn from a bound volume of "Harper's Weekly." One is dated from January 1862 and the other from 29 March 1862 and both have articles on Ericsson. The January 1862 article has a…
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