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1851 letter from printing firm Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson suggesting the destruction of dies and plates to Postmaster General Hall

Handwritten letter on elaborately decorated letterhead; Hall's response is scrawled perpendicular over two-thirds of the letter










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