You are purchasing an autograph letter dated March 3, 1864 to Captain James Melville Gilliss, USN, from the Editors of the National Intelligencer newspaper.  The letter, written while Captain Gilliss was Superintendent of the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Astronomical and Meteorological Observations for 1862.

The mailer indicates that the recipient has been sent a copy of the recently published 1864 Astronomical and Meteorological Observations.  The mailer indicates that this copy was sent to the President of Alleghany College, on March 11, 1867.  

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