Title: Letters to Johnston Blakeley Creighton from Samuel P. Carter and Earl English

Identifier: 0694-s1-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/1317)

Description: These 36 letters from the Johnston Blakeley Creighton papers document a period of surveillance of the island of Japan in 1868 and offer American observations of Japan during that time period. The letters, all of which are addressed to Creighton, are from Samuel P. Carter, Commander of the USS Monocacy stationed in Yokohama and Hyogo, and Earl English, Commander of the USS Iroquois, which was traveling between Osaka, Yokohama, Hyogo and Nagasaki.