“WE MUST WAIT TILL AFTER ANOTHER VISIT FROM THE PAYMASTER FOR OUR GOOD BEER”; Letter written by the wife of a prominent West Point professor of mathematics and topography explaining to her brother why a promised shipment of beer has not been delivered
West Point, New York to Springfield, Massachusetts: 1846. Envelope or Cover. This stampless folded letter is datelined “Good Friday Morn. 1846”. It was sent by Margaret Stebbins Scammon to her brother, a banker in Springfield, Massachusetts, and displays a faint red circular West Point postmark and a fancy “5” rate..... More
