The post office department received the executed contract for stamped envelopes from the Plimpton Manufacturing Company

All of this information comes from dispatches from Washington that were reprinted in the Courant on October 5 and 6, 1874.  The dispatch reprinted on October 6 came from the Washington correspondent of the New York Republic.

1. E. W. Barber informed the Plimpton Manufacturing Company that the US post office department had awarded them the stamped envelope contract on September 23, 1874.
2. The Plimpton Manufacturing Company had secured extra space and equipment to fulfill this contract by September 29, 1874.

By October 6, 1874, G. H. Reay will claim the contract for producing stamped envelopes.

G. H. Reay of New York was the next lowest bidder after the Plimpton Manufacturing Company.

Unattributed.  “The Plimpton contract,” Hartford Daily Courant, October 5, 1874, page 2.

Unattributed.  “The stamped envelope contract,” Hartford Daily Courant, October 6, 1874.