Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CABINET MEMBERS.) Group of 5 Letters Signed by members of early Cabinets. Each 1 page, 4to, two with integral address leaf; usual folds. Vp, 1799-1837

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Timothy Pickering, as Secretary of State, to Messrs. Valck & Co., regarding a dispute with a British frigate and asking them to "make out a statement of the damages duly authenticated and proved." Np, 11 January 1799 Levi Woodbury, as Secretary of the Treasury, to Henry Simson, informing him that "the Commissions of Appraisers are unlimited." [Washington], 21 March 1837 Albert Gallatin, as Secretary of the Treasury, to the Auditor of the Treasury, requesting "the amount payable to the Clerks in your Office for the present quarter . . . ." Separations at folds repaired. [Washington], 28 December 1801 John Branch, as Secretary of the Navy, revoking orders for Dr. Barton to report for "passage in a merchant Vessel to the Mediterranean." [Washington], 11 May 1929 Oliver Wolcott [Secretary of the Treasury 1795-1800], to Roger Griswold, letter of recommendation. New York, 6 November 1804.