Letter of Mr. John Roach to the Postmaster-general, suggesting the experiment of advertising for proposals of the lowest rates for the transportation of the United States mails at which the merchants and capitalists of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans will establish and maintain American Steamship lines from those cities to European ports 5411431 DIM001962 letterofmrjohnro00roac durst Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection Roach, John, 1813-1887 http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio11257537 Mail steamers--United States. Postal service--United States. Shipping--Economic aspects--United States. Merchant marine--Economic aspects. Commerce Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Stamped 'Essex Institute, 1848' on t.p Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Stamped 'card catalogued' on t.p Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Has Seymour B. Durst's bookplate text Gibson Brothers, Printers 1876 1876 [United States] books 12 p. ; 23 cm. NNC eng 2021-04-09T21:17:35Z 2021-04-10T09:30:51Z 10.7916/d8-ha5g-gy49