Letter of the day, May 11

[Numbered correspondence 2240]

I like the font they use for their products:

May 11, 1897.

Messrs J.B. Colt & Co.
115 & 117 Nassau St.
New York, N.Y.

Gentlemen:

Your letter of the 8th instant and the box containing the transparency were received yesterday. I have examined the metallic frame, but I prefer the wooden frame shown by your agent, and which I consider more suitable for our purpose. Before sending the transparencies, you will please have them carefully examined to see that they are in perfect condition. I notice that on the transparency received yesterday and which I have this day returned to your address by Adams Express, are a number of defects or blemishes; the pictures will be exhibited in the Museum hall and will be seen by many visitors and closely scrutinized, and it is therefore necessary that I should have them in the best possible condition.

Very respectfully,
D.L. Huntington
Deputy Surgeon General, U.S. Army,
In charge of Museum and Library Division

The letter above was in response to this one:

James B. Colt. Charles Goodyear.
J.B. Colt & Co.
Manufacturers of
Self Focusing Arc Electric Lamps, Projection Lanterns, Lantern Slides
and specialties
P.O. Box 2773.
115 & 117 Nassau Street, New York, New York.

May 8th, 1897.

Dr. D. L. Huntington,
Surgeon General's Office,
War Department, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
We express you to-day one of the transparencies mounted in a metallic frame, which we think is to be preferred to the wooden frames our representative showed you when in Washington. These frames cost considerable more apiece than the wooden ones, but as they will be on permanent exhibition in the Medical Museum, we think we are justified in going to this extra outlay, as the attention of people who are interested in them will be called to the complete manner in which they are protected by these metallic trimmings. We wish, of course, to submit the sample to you before we send on the complete order, which will be about week after next.
Of course, there will be no additional charge to you for the frames, as we assume this extra expense ourselves.

Trusting to hear from you at your early convenience, we are,

Yours respectfully,
J.B. Colt & Co.,
R.C.D.

May 11, 1897, transparency returned