The Courant reported that printing of stamped envelopes would start today

1. The Courant also reported that H. T. Sperry had been appointed to serve as supervisor of the contractors.
2. In this position, Sperry would ensure stamped envelopes met the conditions of the contract with the post office department:

• Requisitions will be sent to Hartford.
• Sperry would see to it that the requisitions were filled properly by Plimpton.
• Sperry would then turn the stamped envelopes over to John H. Burnham, who would attend to the distribution of the envelopes.

1. Burnham would work with the “clerks under his control” as he distributed the envelopes.
2. Plimpton expected to produce 500,000 envelopes per day by October 19, 1874.

According to an earlier article in the Courant, printing began on October 12, 1874.

“Mr. Sperry is well qualified for the important duties of the position.”

John H. Burnham was the local postmaster in Hartford.

Unattributed.  “The stamped envelope contracts,” Hartford Daily Courant, October 15, 1874, page 2.