Letter to James Arlington Bennet, 17–18 March 1843
Source Note
JS, Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to , , New Utrecht, Kings Co., NY, 17 Mar. 1843; handwriting of ; three pages; Simon Gratz Autograph Collection, 1517–1925, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Postal notation in the handwriting of William W. Phelps. “Single” indicated that the letter was subject to a postal charge for a single sheet. (See An Act to Reduce into One the Several Acts Establishing and Regulating the Post-Office Department [3 Mar. 1825], Public Statutes at Large, 18th Cong., 2nd Sess., chap. 64, sec. 13, p. 105.)
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.