REQUESTING A TOUR OF WILLET'S POINT, NY, and offering to host his correspondent s son on a return visit to Washington, D.C., in two autograph letters, signed Nov. 1, 1881 and Feb. 21, 1882, on "National Almanac Office" letterhead, to Gen. Henry L. Abbot, founder and commander of the army s "Engineer School of Application" at Willet s Point

Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909; mathematician and astronomer, head of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., 1877-1897)

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