Item #37956 AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, BY McLEAN AS POSTMASTER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, 8 OCTOBER 1825, TO THE CASHIER OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, INQUIRING ABOUT INFORMATION CONCERNING McLEAN'S PROSECUTION OF "A CHARGE OF ROBBING THE MAIL." John McLean.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, BY McLEAN AS POSTMASTER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, 8 OCTOBER 1825, TO THE CASHIER OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, INQUIRING ABOUT INFORMATION CONCERNING McLEAN'S PROSECUTION OF "A CHARGE OF ROBBING THE MAIL."

Washington DC: Post Office Department, 1825. Single page, entirely in ink manuscript, signed at the end, "John McLean." Very Good.

Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice McLean settled in Cincinnati, where he became its leading citizen, a Congressman, Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court. President Monroe appointed him Postmaster General; Andrew Jackson elevated him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1829, on which he served until his death in 1861. He numbered among the dissenters in the Dred Scott case. During the mid-1840s he was mentioned as a Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
His Letter reads in full: "I will thank you to inform me, by the return of the mail, if convenient, whether the Bank of the U States has ever issued a note of $100 numbered 6499, and one of $50 numbered 2290. This information may be important in a criminal prosecution against a person, whom I have lately had arrested, on a charge of robbing the mail. I am under the impression that the above numbers were made from the numbers 1499 & 229, which it is supposed are the numbers that the notes originally contained.
"I am very respectfully | Your obt sert | John McLean
"Cashier Bank U. States. Item #37956

Price: $750.00

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