#10 • 15 x 20 Framed 1859 Howell Cobb Signed U.S. Treasury Department Document

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Framed official U.S. Treasury Department manuscript letter dated May 19, 1859, signed by Howell Cobb as Secretary of the Treasury. Addressed to D. C. Linsley, Superintendent of the new Court House and Post Office at Windsor, Vermont, the correspondence details administrative terms regarding fencing and grading plans as well as superintendent commission disbursements. The handwritten document is presented in a multi-layered dark green mat alongside a descriptive brass-tone placard, housed in a reddish-brown wooden frame fitted with a braided hanging wire on the reverse.