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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1163

Bermuda
Packet Letters
G.P.O./Admiralty Period, 1806-40
1814 (9 Mar.) and 1821 (1 Aug.) entire letters ex the Watson & Astwood correspondence from London to Bermuda marked "p Packet", both showing London Paid datestamp, the first rated "2/2" and carried by the "Express" to Halifax, the second rated "5d" and carried the "Queensbury" to Halifax then the "Vixen" to Bermuda

Note: During the War of 1812, naval vessels carried the mail and the route was changed to avoid New York.

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