Letters
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Morton, William Thomas Green, 1819-? (dentist)
label: Collection Creator
content: Morton, William J.
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content: Morton Family Collection
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content: Morton Family Collection / Series 1: Letters and Documents
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content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Letters - re: compensation for discovery. Letter to William Whiting, Solicitor of War Department from Committee on Ways and Means re: his opinion on Morton's claim against the government, March 22, 1864. Letter from N. Wilson, chairman Committee on Ways and Means to William Hammond, Surgeon General of Army asking for opinions on amount Morton should be paid. Draft letter to Whiting of War Dept about Morton's claim, March 28, 1864. Several letters, 1856, 1857, reassignment of Tuckerman's claim to 50 percent of Morton's receipts from the government to the Eastern Railroad. Claim was reduced to $3,000 and in 1862 to $1,500.