More new Mint letters for browsing
RogerB
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The following PDF files have been added to the NNP free database.
E-235 Vol 007. pdf. Letters sent from Mint HQ October 9, 1875 – February 2, 1876 with alphabetical index of recipients (nothing about subjects). Using the NNP files is not only free (thanks to Eric P. Newman), but you avoid inhaling leather dust and returning home from the archives looking like the Syracuse "Orangemen" football team got mad at you.
The following four PDF files cover letters sent from Mint HQ to these two mints during 1909. This includes the Lincoln cent and New Orleans mint closure, etc. The four parts make downloading and handling the documents easier than a single large file.
E-235 Vol 378 Part 1 San Francisco.pdf
E-235 Vol 378 Part 2 San Francisco.pdf
E-235 Vol 378 Part 3 New Orleans.pdf
E-235 Vol 378 Part 4 New Orleans.pdf
Let me know or contact NNP if you have any questions. Also, if you happen to use any of the files in an article or presentation, please note the document came from NARA via NNP.
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As a reminder, National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) material on the U.S. Mint is on Newman Portal at https://nnp.wustl.edu/Library/Archives?searchLetter=U.
Maybe a little button for that URL could be added? Some people (including me...sheepishly noted) have trouble navigating to the NARA materials area.
These volumes, and those posted earlier by RogerB, are of the highest value,
not only for current researchers but those doing such work in the future. He
is owed a debt of gratitude by anyone interested in the history of United States
coinage.
Great thanks to Mr. Newman and Mr. Burdette.
Even yesterday and today am re-re-reading Burdette's "American Coinage 1916-1921....It's a pure tobacco-chewing pleasure to peruse.
Thanks for the compliment! Feel free to ask if you have any questions.
Should I have included a portable spittoon with every copy for the tobacco chewers?
Thanks!
I'll be finishing E-235 Vol 380 (1909 Misc letters) Monday. Then take a few days off when my kids visit. The next volumes will be Vol 8-12 and later. There is much treasure hidden in there. After those I'll switch to E-217 boxes 1-3 -- these are individual letters covering 1865-1872, which is a sparse data era at NARA College Park.
Entries 215 and 216 are mostly digitized and offer a lot of material from the early 1830s to 1862. Some of this duplicates E-1 which denga had digitized a couple of years ago, but many documents are unique.