Com. STEPHEN DECATUR,
_Washington_.
Transcriber Notes:
Obsolete spellings of words (e.g., behove, shew, somtime, stile, etc.)
have been retained.
On page 5, "degraged" was replaced with "degraded".
On page 7, "be the folllowing" was replaced with "by the following".
On page 9, "a Miss ******" was replaced with "a Miss----".
On page 10, in "I should no otherwise notice" the phrase "should no
otherwise" could have been "should not otherwise", but then "should no
otherwise" could have been correct at the time. Thus, no change was
made.
On page 13, "henious" was replaced with "heinous".
On page 16, "sattellites" was replaced with "satellites".
On page 18, the period after "obtain my rank" was replaced with a comma.
On page 18, a period was added after "22 inst".
On page 21, "NO. 12" was replaced with "No. 12".
There was no "No. 13" letter. Instead the letter numbers jump from
twelve to fourteen.