(CIVIL WAR) Seward Frederick W Department of State letter re

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(CIVIL WAR.) Seward, Frederick W. Department of State letter requesting Samuel Colt's prices on "ornamented revolvers." Contemporary ink transfer copy of a Letter Signed from Frederick W. Seward as Assistant Secretary of State to arms manufacturer Samuel Colt of Hartford, CT. One page plus integral blank with docket number; folds, minor wear. Washington, 28 October 1861

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In full: "I will thank you to furnish this Department with a list setting forth the cost of your best quality of ornamented revolvers, mounted with sold, silver, &c." Colt was by this point the best-known weapons manufacturer in the world, though he had been criticized early in the war for supplying both the North and South. He died of gout the following January at age 47.