[ Autographs ] WILLIAM EUSTIS (1753 - 1825) American politician, Secretary of War under Madison during the War of 1812, also a Governor of Massachusetts. L.S. 1p. 4to., [Washington], July 1809, a circular letter from the War Department concerning an act of Congress "...in relation to public Agents -- You are requested...to transmit tothis Department a bond to the U.S....for the sum of Eleven Thousand Dollars, conditioned that you will faithfully account to the United Sates, for all monies that may be placed in your hands..." Light soiling, a few pin holes, otherwise very good.