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Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to C. H. Davis

Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to C. H. Davis

U.S. Navy Chaplain Gleeson reports to Rear Admiral Davis on the state of Kingston, Jamaica, following the earthquake. According to Gleeson, many of the dead were still lying in the streets and the hospital was overcrowded, with an insufficient number of doctors to attend to the wounded. Gleeson visited Winchester Park, which the Jesuit priests had opened up to the public, where a makeshift hospital had been built. Gleeson notes that there is not an immediate danger of famine, but many are concerned about the possibility of an epidemic resulting from the number of dead bodies still lying in the streets.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-20

Creator(s)

Gleeson, Matthew C. (Matthew Carlin), 1870-1927

Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to C. H. Davis

Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to C. H. Davis

Chaplain Gleeson reports on Americans found in Jamaica after the earthquake. Some were sent to the USS Indiana and some to the Missouri, and supplies and food are being provided. The Port Kingston refused to let American women and children sleep on the deck, but Gleeson found no evidence of discrimination against American citizens.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-17

Creator(s)

Gleeson, Matthew C. (Matthew Carlin), 1870-1927

Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to Francis C. Travers

Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to Francis C. Travers

Chaplain Gleeson thanks Francis C. Travers for his good wishes after surviving an explosion on the naval ship the USS Missouri. Gleeson praises the conduct of the ship’s Captain William S. Cowles, President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law. He had hoped the Missouri would be ordered to New York for repairs, and that would allow him and others from the ship to tell the story in New York of Captain Cowles’s bravery and strong leadership in the crisis; but the ship has been ordered to Newport News. Gleeson comments that Roosevelt is a friend to the Catholics and that the Archbishop of New York, John M. Farley, and he support Roosevelt’s re-election.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-24

Creator(s)

Gleeson, Matthew C. (Matthew Carlin), 1870-1927