Lot Details

red datestamp with two strikes of matching straightline "Paid" on folded lettersheet to London, manuscript "Inland 18¾" and "Packet 12½" for freight money sail fee, red "New-York Jul 4" datestamp, endorsed "No 62, via New York foreign Letter Office", carried by Dramatic Line Shakespeare departing New York July 8 and arriving Liverpool July 28, backstamped "Liverpool Ship Letter" and July 29 London arrival, very fine, one of two recorded freight money letters from Portsmouth, ex-Winter