manuscript port of entry rate on incoming cover from La Canea, Crete, George Benton manuscript endorsement at bottom of on folded cover, elaborate Syros (Greece) Lazaretto disinfection station cachet on reverse, enrolled "care of Messrs Fitch Brothers & Co., Marseilles", manuscript "Rec'd & forw'd 25th Aug 1838 by YOS, FB & Co.", Marseille transit and boxed "PD" and Paris backstamp, very fine, the earliest recorded cover from Crete to the United States