?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WHITNEY, ELI. Autograph Letter Signed, "E. Whitney," twice, to Commissary General Callender Irvine, stating [on page 2] that the letter to him of July 9 was not received, sending a signed holograph copy of the lost letter [on page 1], reporting that 500 muskets are ready to be delivered and that 500 more are ready for inspection. 2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf addressed in his hand; moderate bleed-through affecting text and signature of copy. (AKF) New Haven, 30 July 1814
". . . It is three months since I have had 500 muskets ready for delivery . . . . "I will thank you to inform me by the return mail about what day an inspection will be here . . . ." The holograph copy of his letter dated 9 July 1814: "It has been agreed by the Secretary of War that I shall proceed to execute my Contract with the UStates . . . . "A copy of Gen'l Armstrong's letter to you of the 25th . . . has been furnished to me from the Department of War. . . ."
