Autograph Letter signed Nahum Capen , as Postmaster, to the Honorable W.H. English pf Washington, D.C.

by Nahum Capen

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

One page, on Post Office letterhead. 1 vols. 12mo. Three tape repairs at folds, chip from outer edge. Item #221685 Nahum Capen 1804-1886 , historian, phrenologist, and postmaster, served as Postmaster of Boston from 1857-1861, and is said to have been the first postmaster in the country to introduce street letter-boxes and to work out a free delivery system.

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