At Sea: U.S.S. *Orizaba*, December 4, 7, and 8, 1918.
Price: $800.00
Unbound. Three loose issues of this shipboard newsletter. Horizontal folds with small tears at the ends, very good. All three issues are a single sheet; the first are broadsides utilizing a single side of each sheet, the last is double sided. A newsletter edited and probably largely written by Dr. Skillern for the U.S.S. *Orizaba*, which was transporting a large number of journalists traveling to France as members of the United States Press Delegation to the Peace Conference, and which included Herbert Bayard Swope, Ralph Pulitzer, W.E.B. Du Bois ("The Crisis"), Abraham Cahan ("Jewish Daily Forward"), S.S. McClure, and other notables, most of whom gave speeches or programs on the ship. Issue number 2 prints a wireless message to the journalists on the *Orizaba* from President Woodrow Wilson. Issue No. 6 uses the second page to provide lists of the officers and journalists on the ship. Although *OCLC* locates some electronic resources for the newspaper, they locate only a single physical issue (of number 1, at Williams).
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