ASSOCIATE JUSTICE LEVI WOODBURY - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 08/22/1836 - HFSID 174940
Sale Price $324.00
Reg. $360.00
LEVI WOODBURY
Ordering the issuance of a draft of $75,000.
Manuscript LS: "Levi Woodbury" as Jackson's Secretary of the
Treasury, 1p, 8x10. Treasury Department, 1834 August 22. To Thomas
Emerson, President of Bank of Windsor, Vermont. In full: "I have
the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August 14th. On the 12th
of August I instructed the Treasurer of the U.S. to issue a transfer draft for
$75,000, on the Bank of America at New York, in favor of your Bank, and payable
at Windsor, Septr 1st." Woodbury was Jackson's Secretary of the Navy
(1831-1834) and Secretary of the Treasury (1834-1837), continuing in the
Treasury when Van Buren became President (1837-1841). Woodbury was appointed
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Polk and served on the
Supreme Court from 1845 until his death in 1851. He wrote this letter just seven
weeks after switching from Navy to Treasury. Folds, lightly creased, not
touching signature. Fine condition.
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