Unexpected Jewels in BEP Correspondences

You occasionally find unexpected jewels in the course of reading documents in the correspondence files of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The correspondence is often one-sided and sometimes incomplete, but you get the picture. Here are two examples.

In the first instance, the issue is that every piece of paper issued to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing by the Treasury’s Division of Loans and Currency had to be accounted for and the worth of that paper was valued at the face value of the notes to be printed on it for which that paper was drawn. If lost, the Bureau and its employees were responsible for reimbursing the Treasury for the loss.

The second, and older, will give