Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Morton, William Thomas Green, 1819-? (dentist)
- Morton, William J.
- See more items in
- Morton Family Collection
- Morton Family Collection / Series 1: Letters and Documents
- Date
- undated
- Container
- Box 1, Folder 8
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Morton Family Collection, 1849-1911, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents note
- Letters - re: compensation for discovery. Letter to William Whiting, Solicitor of War Department from Committee on Ways and Means re: his opinion on Morton's claim against the government, March 22, 1864. Letter from N. Wilson, chairman Committee on Ways and Means to William Hammond, Surgeon General of Army asking for opinions on amount Morton should be paid. Draft letter to Whiting of War Dept about Morton's claim, March 28, 1864. Several letters, 1856, 1857, reassignment of Tuckerman's claim to 50 percent of Morton's receipts from the government to the Eastern Railroad. Claim was reduced to $3,000 and in 1862 to $1,500.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511589353-1503511589361-7
- Metadata Usage
- CC0