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5 typewritten sheets. 13 x 8 ½ inches, and one manuscript addendum sheet in Ogden Burrows' hand, 16 ½ x 5 inches. Creased at folds with some wear and toning, otherwise very good. The Burrows were a very interesting family. Ogden's father, the namesake of his son, Silas Enoch Burrows, was born in Mystic, Connecticut in 1794, he died in 1870. He amassed a huge fortune through the international shipping empire he built (he also owned a number of whaling sealing vessels) and used his wealth liberally to find and help shipwrecked mariners. One such search mission was to find Sir John Franklin's ships, the Erebus and the Terror for which he purchased two brigs with the Grinnells. In 1847, Silas E. Burrows introduced the telegraph in Russia. Ogden's daughters both married into British nobility (sometimes called "Dollar Princesses"). They are both mentioned in his will. Mary married Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe 8th Baron Calthorpe, in 1891. Their only son, Frederick "Freddie" Somerset Gough-Calthorpe (1892-1935), was a first-class cricketer (best in the country), he captained England and died from cancer, age 42. Ogden's youngest child, Elsie, married Sir John Shiffner in 1894. Sir John was a veteran of the Zulu campaign in 1879. While cleaning his gun in April 1914, (preparing for an outing with his two young sons returning home from school for the Easter holidays), he accidentally shot and killed himself. The two sons were Sir John Bridger Shiffner (1899-1918), who was killed in France just 6 weeks before armistice at age 19, and Sir Henry Burrows Shiffner (1902-1941), Major, Royal Artillery, who was killed by Erwin Rommel's troops in Egypt.