U.S. Military Academy West Point N.Y. Aug. 25, 1854
Sir,
I have received from the Treasurer of the United States a Treasury Draft for two thousand dollars for the purchase of Barlow’s Planetarium for the use of the military academy at West Point.
I am very respectfully Your obedt. Servt.
Signed/ R. E. Lee Br. Col:
Supt: Mil: Acady
Superintendent's Daily Correspondence United States Military Academy
Superintendent's Letter Book No. 3, p. 131. Addressed “F. Burt Esq. 3rd Auditor U.S. Washington City, D.C.”