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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1354

Jamaica
18th Century Overseas Ship Letters
1784 (3 July) entire letter to London, marked "p Camilla", rated "5" and showing unframed "liverpool/ship lre" with, on reverse, "liver/pool" h.s.; 1790 (18 Jan.) entire letter to Dumfries, smuggled by merchant ship and rated "7" when put in the post at London; 1790 (13 Dec.) entire letter from Montego Bay to Ripon, marked "p the Little Joe", rated "11" and showing unframed "liverpool/ship"; 1794 (1 Dec.) entire letter from Spanish Town to Edinburgh, marked "Chesterfield Packet", rated "1/-" (deleted) and "1/7"; 1796 (17 July) entire letter to London, marked "H.M.S. Intrepid", rated "5" (deleted) and "9" and showing unframed "deal/ship-lre"; and 1798 (23 Oct.) entire letter from Montego Bay to London, marked "p Man of War", rated "7" and showing curved unframed "deal/ship lre". A useful lot

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