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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1175

Bermuda
Packet Letters
The Cunard Line, 1833-86
1845 (8 Mar.) entire letter from New Orleans to Bermuda, nominated to be carried by the Alabama to Havana but carried privately to the care of Morrison, De Cononcke & Co and marked "To be forwarded by the R Mail Steamer" which had ceased to call at New Orleans after only four months in 1842. It was put into the British Post Office in Havana and was eventually carried by the Clyde to Bermuda, rated "1/-" at Havana. Most unusual. Photo

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