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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 1014

x Natal 1824 (8 June) entire letter sent from a missionary in "Graham's Town" to Rev. James Whitworth in Cape Town and redirected to London, rated "1/-" and marked "Paid 6", showing "post office/Crown/grahams town", "post-office/cape of good hope" oval d.s. and framed "returned from" (applied in London). The letter gives detailed advice on the prospects for a missionary station in Natal, reference to Delagoa Bay, the writer's "experience of Kafferland", the impossible dangers of travel through "Kafferland & Tambookieland", tribal wars, ivory trade etc. Facinating reading and in very fine condition Estimate £ 500-600

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