Lot 1860
Portland O.T. Jul. 24, bold postmark ties 3¢ orange brown (10), horizontal pair, margins to cut in corner at top right, rich color, on 1852 folded letter to Thetford Vt. with 1852 dateline, "Steamer Willamette", which operated on the Columbia and Sacramento Rivers; pair with small scissors cut at top center between stamps, Fine and attractive.
Estimate 400 - 500
The contents, written aboard ship, suggest some of the bittersweet feelings of family separated by a continent: "I have become much attached to Oregon & the Pacific coast & were it not for the duty that I owe to my parents I would never think of returning to New England except on a visit."
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