US Mil: Acady West Point. N.Y. January 21. 1853
Sir.
You will proceed to the City of New York for the purpose of procuring specie for Treasury drafts. Upon completion of which business you will return to this post.
I am very respectfully Yr Obt Ser
Signed/ R. E. Lee Bvt: Col.
Supt: Mil: Acady
Superintendent's Daily Correspondence United States Military Academy
Superintendent's Letter Book No. 2, p. 316. Addressed “Lieut: R. S. Smith 4th a. a. Qr Mr West Point.”