BIB_ID
344927
Accession number
MA 257.2
Creator
Nott, Charles C.
Display Date
1895 Apr. 27.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
On "Court of Claims, Washington, D.C." letterhead.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter; mentioning in a postscript that he read the Madison letter published in The Nation and it was "a revelation" to him, "making it plain that 'direct' tax meant a tax laid directly by the new government as distinguished from money raised by requisition on the states."
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