DOCUMENTS
The Travers Papers (3.5MB)
This manuscript was originally compiled by Wilson Hulme and is based upon a copy provided by Richard C. Celler. More than 120 documents were rediscovered after Wilson’s death. Thanks to cooperation between the NPM and USPCS, these additional papers are now on the USPCS web site, and the typescripts have been added to the original manuscript.
Wilson’s document numbers may have been intended to relate to other Travers Papers and may have been cited in some publications, so his numbers have been preserved. His original typescripts are in black. The additional documents are typed in red; they have been placed in sequence and assigned letters following the previous number, e.g., 617A. As is typical of the time, the documents contain many nonstandard abbreviations that have been retained. In some cases, punctuation marks have been altered or added for legibility. For example, date and thousand separators in this correspondence tend to be periods rather than commas.
Many documents include docketing applied by contemporaries. A bold, italicized “COMMENT” line identifies comments made by us to help readers assess significance, clarify persons or items mentioned, and find other documents that concern the same subject.
Concerning provenance of the documents, it should be assumed that we made the typescripts citing “National Archives” and “National Postal Museum” from the original documents or scans, and those citing “Travers” from Arthur Travers’ typescripts or scans. Documents, both originals and typescripts, are annotated if available on the USPCS web site.
Robert S. Boyd
September 2014
