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Box 1

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Westport post office – registered mail, 1874 - 1883

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes return registered letter bills, record of transit, receipts for registered letters, receipts for registered packages,

Dates: 1874 - 1883

Westport post office – United States Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, 1876 - 1885

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes Division of Inspection, Division of Dead Letters, and Division of Finance.

Dates: 1876 - 1885

Westport post office – manuscript correspondence, 1878 - 1885

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, Post Office Department Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, Railway Mail Service Office of Superintendent 1st Division.

Dates: 1878 - 1885

Westport post office – miscellaneous, 1879 - 1884

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Includes unpaid letter receipt, Post Office Envelope Agency form, transcript for fourth-class offices, pension office, statement of official postage stamps received, certificate of oaths of mail messengers.

Dates: 1879 - 1884

Miscellaneous post office materials, some related to Maine, possibly Westport, 1863 - 1881

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes Lincoln County News form, manuscript letter to Hugh D. McLellan, Coast Survey Office envelope addressed to Master Eugene P. Webber, Eastern Steamboat Co. receipt, Pittston Post Office receipt, Civil War manuscript letter, U.S. Postal Card Agency special notice, Postage Stamp Agency notices.

Dates: 1863 - 1881

Blank forms and printed material, mostly related to the United States Post Office, 1869 - 1884

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes United States Official Postal Guide and The Atlantic Monthly information, surplus mail locks and bags must not be allowed to accumulate at post offices form, Treasury Department circular, certificate of the oath of mail messengers form, regulations broadside, stamp and envelope information, Garfield Memorial Hospital appeal (with mention of James G. Blaine), proposals, letters of transmittal, free mail matter form, special notices, mail lettings broadside.

Dates: 1869 - 1884