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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Charles M. Scott collection, 1883</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Scott, Charles M.</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">river pilot</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>4</extent>
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  <abstract>ALS (1883 June 30) written by William H. Hatch to Harrison Matson, ALS (1883 November 13) written by John J. O'Neill to Matson, ALS (1883 December 14) written by Matson to Martin Linn Clardy, and petition (undated) to the U.S. Congress seeking a pension for Charles M. Scott, inventor of a signal system used by Mississippi river boat pilots.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clardy, Martin Linn</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hatch, William H. (William Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1896</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, Matson</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>O'Neill, John J. (John Joseph)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1846-1896</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pensions</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pilots and pilotage</topic>
    <geographic>Mississippi River</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>River pilots</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79001702</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">791113</recordCreationDate>
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