Testament of the Sheffield Manufactories & c to Management of Consular Agent

by (SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM -- STEEL MANUFACTURING -- AMERICAN CIVIL WAR)

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Raymond M. Stevenson (born 1840) was an American journalist in Pennsylvania who, after service in the Union Army during the Civil War, was appointed by Abraham Lincoln vice consul to the American Consul in Sheffield, England, a post he held until 1866, after which he headed west and resumed newspaper work in Colorado. DS, 3pp (lettersheet), 8¼" X 13½", Sheffield, Great Britain, 12 February 1864. Addressed to R.M. Stevenson. Very good. On blue stationery, a large group of makers of renowned "Sheffield steel "sign this letter to the new American consul. "In reply to your enquiries," it begins, "we the undersigned Merchants and Manufacturers in Sheffield and the [?} Neighborhood beg to say that your Consular Business has invariably been attended to with promptness and despatch, and to express our entire satisfaction with your existing [?] arrangements for the discharge of your official duties and also with the attention we have received from Messrs. Branson & Sonwith whom we have every confidence." It continues, "We further beg to say that we consider your office to be most centrally and conveniently situated for the despatch of Consular Business (having been used for that purpose for a great number of years) and that you could not meet with an office in a more suitable Locality." The bottom this of this page is then signed by twenty persons and/or firm names, the second leaf is signed by another twenty-one persons and/or firms and the third leaf is signed by twelve persons and/

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