Letter of the Day: January 29 (4 of 5)

Numbered Correspondence 1215

 

January 29, 1896

 

Mr. Wayland F. Reynolds,

Clarksburg, W. Va.

 

Dear Sir:

 

In answer to your letter of the 28^th inst., I would state that there is in this Museum a microscopic slide which contains the Lord’s prayer, 227 letters, in a space 1/294 x 1/441 of a square inch.

 

Very respectfully,

 

D.L. Huntington

Deputy Surgeon General, U.S. Army,

In charge of Museum and Library Division.