[OHIO IMPRINTS] [Commins, J.D. et al]

[Cover Title] The Akron Post-Office. [Drop Title] To the Public

Akron: No Publisher Given, 1838. 12mo. Sewn pamphlet; printed blue paper wrappers; 16pp. Light external soil; Very Good.

Public complaint against H.H. Johnson, Postmaster, by three citizens of Akron, accusing him of reneging on a promise made prior to his appointment that the Post Office "...should, in no contingency, be located north of the gore [i.e. the rock quarry]; and that until you had erected an office on the gore, it should remain where it then was..." Includes numerous witness affidavits signed in print by citizens of Akron. Appended to the complaint is a series of public and private correspondences between the complainants and the accused. MORGAN (Ohio Imprints) 86. Not in Rinderknecht. OCLC 2 only (AAS, Kent State) as of August 2019. Per OCLC cataloguing, there was also an undated reprint.

Price: $450.00

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