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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I’m sure there is a rule regarding this dilemma, but I’m hard-pressed to find it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Item in hand is a quarterly account ledger form for the U.S. Post Office with the following 245:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Post Office at [blank] County of [blank] State of [blank] in account current with the United States for the service of the Post Office Department from [blank] to [blank] 186[blank].</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">On the item in hand, however, the following manuscript annotations have been made:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Post Office at [Sangerville] County of [Augusta] State of [Virginia] in account current with the <s>United</s> <b>Confederate</b> States <b>of America</b> for the service of the Post Office Department from [1st day of June 1861] to [30th day of June] 186[1].</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">(Text in bold are added ms. annotations made above the line of printed text)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Some Background information: We have a number of forms from the Confederacy that have been cataloged as published with extensive notes added about the manuscript additions. This is the first form we’ve encountered that has been so blatantly appropriated by a Confederate office. So, does one make the main entry the U.S. Post Office, with an added entry for the CSA Post Office? Or reverse the entries with CSA Post Office as the main entry and USPO as an added entry? Make USPO the main entry and leave it at that? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will Evans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Chief Rare Materials Catalog Librarian</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Library of the Boston Athenaeum</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">10 1/2 Beacon Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Boston, MA 02108</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Tel: 617-227-0270 ext. 224</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Fax: 617-227-5266 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/">www.bostonathenaeum.org</a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></b></p>
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