1854 Letter Warning of “Humbug” and Advising a Strategy for Fixing a Political Appointment for Collector of the Port of New York.
New York City: March 1854. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ½ inches. A letter from “C. Riddle” with the New York City Inspector’s Department to “Sant. Mairs Esq” concerning the best way to push through their choice of appointee for the Collector of the Port of New York.....