Two-page autograph letter signed “W. T. Robey” on Robey’s printed stationery, dated “Dec. 28, 1917”, enclosing check for $17.85 ($363.00 in today’s money) and stating:

I have never started to make a collection of anything but the U.S. stamps, not even the Colonies and think that it will be sometime before I start on these as I believe money put into the old U.S. Stamps now will in a few years be worth much more and will prove a good investment for anyone procuring same now...my collection is nearly complete from 1869 to date except for some of the Revenues.

This is a notable Robey letter, written about five months before his fortuitous visit to the post office to buy a sheet of the new 24¢ airmail stamp.

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