Letter
Object Details
- Description
- A plentiful supply of stamps is being used in Portland, even though he [the postmaster] has not ordered or received any. He wants to know "…if I am to consider it my duty to cancel these stamps and stamp all letters as paid-and enter as 'paid by stamps' all such letters."
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- July 19, 1847
- Object number
- 1997.2001.8
- Writer
- A. L. Woodbury
- Recipient
- Cave Johnson, American, 1845 - 1849
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink / handwritten
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.1 x 19.7cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/4in.)
- Place of Origin
- Portland, Maine
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- American Expansion (1800-1860)
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_1997.2001.8
- Usage
- CC0
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