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This letter from Oliver Hazard Perry to Benjamin W. Crowinshield, Secretary of the Navy, was written in Newport Rhode Island on April 9, 1815. Perry was writing to recommend Doctor John R. Martin of the Army as a candidate for a Navy position.</div>
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