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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 605

Great Britain
Duke of Wellington
1811 (2 March) ALS written as Field Marshal from Castans (?) to Admiral Berkely writing "as there is no Packet on this sail, & it is essential that the Mail must be sent to England tomorrow, I shall be very much obliged to you, if you would make it convenient to send a vessel with it", signed "Wellington". Endorsed "2 March 1811 Lord Wellington to send Vessel with the Mail". A fantastic letter sent from the Peninsular at a pivotal moment.

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