Letter to US Consul Col. Thomas Aspinwall

Archive

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King Manor Museum

Name/Title

Letter to US Consul Col. Thomas Aspinwall

Entry/Object ID

2021.1.101

Scope and Content

1825 letter by Charles King, then editor of the "New York American" and later ninth president of Columbia College, here writing to US Consul Col. Thomas Aspinwall in London regarding the patenting of an invention to filter and cool water for large cities. 4to. Bifolium with integral address leaf. Contemporary docketing; later pencil biographical annotation.

Collection

King Manor Historical Documents Collection

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: Archival records were created by King Manor Museum for institutional and research purposes.