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Friday, May 20, 2011

Letter of the Day: May 20

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 06710

Transportation &c. of alcohol.

Surgeon General's Office,
U.S. Army medical Museum and Library,
Corner 7th and B Streets S.W.

Washington, May 20, 1903.

To the Surgeon General,
U.S. Army

Sir:

I have the honor to transmit, for your signature, a letter to the Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, requesting transportation for seven (7) barrels of alcohol from warehouse No. 4, of Columbus Distilling Co., 1st District of New York, to Army Medical Museum, and also a letter to Collector of Internal Revenue, 1st District of New York, requesting him to turn the alcohol over to the Chief Quartermaster, Department of the East.

The duplicate permit for free withdrawal of alcohol is forwarded herewith.

Very respectfully,
Calvin DeWitt
Col. Asst. Surgeon General, U. S. A.
In charge of Museum and Library Division.

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