Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DEARBORN, HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, "H. Dearborn," as Secretary of War, to Representative Orchard Cook, promising to urge Mr. [Gideon] Granger to help, acknowledging his concerns about the improper conduct of postmasters relating to the distribution of patronage. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; small area of loss at right edge affecting few letters of text, faint offsetting, folds. Washington, 19 June 1805

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". . . Mr. Granger has been for some time absent, as soon as he returns, I will put the papers into his hands and will endeavour to prevail on him to comply with the wishes of yourself & friends. I have no doubt but very considerable inconveniences have been experienced by the Republicans in the District of Maine by the improper conduct of postmasters, and as the opposition party in Massachusetts have every kind of aid which can be derived from State patronage, I think it would be but just to deprive them of any improper advantages they might derive from the patronage of the U.S.--it appears that one more struggle is necessary for producing a compleat triumph in old Massachusetts. The District of Maine appears to deserve well."
Gideon Granger (1767-1822) served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Jefferson, 1801-14.