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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 160

India 1786 (16 Feb.) entire letter from Private W. Hopkin, 6th. Company, 4th. Regiment, Madras European Infantry, from Madras Hospital, Fort. St. George, Madras to England, rated "1" (deleted) and "5" (ship Captain´s gratuity of 1d. and 4d. inland postage) alongside manuscript "all" and with a fair strike of the "london ship-lre" h.s. (S.3) and with Bishopmark on reverse; the contents include "Having an oppertunity by a Brother Soldier belonging to the 78th. Regiment who is Returning to Europe, and has promised to take great care of this letter which I make no doubt he will, I thought it my duty to embrace it...". Photo Estimate £ 200-250 Note: In early 1786 there was no established arrangement for the carriage of private or soldier´´s mail from Madras to the U.K. The first regular postal system in the Madras Presidency came into being on 1st. June 1786

Sold for
£220