Title: Two manuscript letters Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr., written during his tenures as Auditor then Secretary of the Treasury for the United States Author: Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. Place: [Philadelphia] Publisher: Date: 1790 & 1795 Description: Includes: Short note written while auditor at the U.S. Treasury, "I... now inclose the Loan Office Certificate mentioned thereine, to be compared with the Checks in your office..." 16x18 cm. June 4th, 1790. * One-page letter written while Secretary of the Treasury, to Nathaniel Appleton, Commissioner of Loans for Massachusetts, "I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to remit to you the sum of Six Thousand Dollars in a draught on the Office of Discount & Deposit at Boston, for the purpose of enabling you to discharge the pensions which will become due the 5th of September next to the Invalids of the United States in Massachusetts...as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War..." On 1st page of 4-page lettersheet, addressed with Wolcott's franking signature on 4th page. 25x21 cm. Letters on Treasury business by the second Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Lot Amendments Condition: First darkened, worn with small chips & tears at left and bottom edges (affecting the elaborate flourish in Wolcott's signature), else first good, second very good or better. Item number: 206452
Title: Two manuscript letters Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr., written during his tenures as Auditor then Secretary of the Treasury for the United States Author: Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. Place: [Philadelphia] Publisher: Date: 1790 & 1795 Description: Includes: Short note written while auditor at the U.S. Treasury, "I... now inclose the Loan Office Certificate mentioned thereine, to be compared with the Checks in your office..." 16x18 cm. June 4th, 1790. * One-page letter written while Secretary of the Treasury, to Nathaniel Appleton, Commissioner of Loans for Massachusetts, "I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to remit to you the sum of Six Thousand Dollars in a draught on the Office of Discount & Deposit at Boston, for the purpose of enabling you to discharge the pensions which will become due the 5th of September next to the Invalids of the United States in Massachusetts...as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War..." On 1st page of 4-page lettersheet, addressed with Wolcott's franking signature on 4th page. 25x21 cm. Letters on Treasury business by the second Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Lot Amendments Condition: First darkened, worn with small chips & tears at left and bottom edges (affecting the elaborate flourish in Wolcott's signature), else first good, second very good or better. Item number: 206452
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