Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 to James Tyler Ames
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02019 Author/Creator: Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Letter signed Date: 29 November 1861 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Field writes to Ames in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Writes, "As a personal favor to me will you consent to manufacture in the very best manner of the very best materials one repeating gun, similar to the one you saw exhibited to the President in Washington last summer, with four hundred steel cartridge chambers like one sent you this day by Adams & Co. Express." Asks whether Ames can take an order for fifty such guns, with twenty thousand steel cartridge chambers. Inquires as to the price for such an order, and instructs that the guns should be delivered to New York.
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