This 5 ¾” x 10 ¼” WAR DEPARTMENT SIGNAL OFFICE order form ((89.581HD) is signed by A. W. Greely. The order is to the SPENCER LENS COMPANY in Buffalo, NY for “One Telescope, with 3 inch object glass, variable eyepiece for magnification 30 to 60 times, with mounting for fastening to posts or trees, $90.00. To be engraved on first draw tube Signal Corps, U. S. Army. April, 1898. Procured in open market at lowest rate from the manufacturers.” Adolphus Greely was a lieutenant in the US Army and comma ...click for details
This letter (89.648HD), written on a folded 8 ½” x 11” sheet of THE MERIDEN BIRD CLUB stationery and signed by Ernest Harold Baynes, is dated “7th of Feb. 1923” and is addressed to Mr. Howland. It reads, “Dear Mr. Howland, I know that there is every intention on the part of the publishers of Nature Magazine to continue it indefinitely. I have contracted to do one article a month for a year at least, and I have already written three, which have been paid for. There was some confusion in getting o ...click for details
Written on a folded 7 ¾” x 9 ½” sheet with an address of 526 Holly Avenue (penciled above is the notation ‘St. Paul Minn’), this letter (89.579HD) was written and signed by ommissary General Michael R. Morgan who as a Brevet Brigadier General sat at the court martial of General George Armstrong Custer at Fort Leavenworth in 1867. Although this letter does not address the trial, Custer was found guilty on all counts and suspended from rank and command for one year, and forfeited his pay for the s ...click for details
