Lot 1049
1847, 10¢ black (2), position 7R, full margins and sharp impression, fresh and Fine to Very Fine, tied by neat blue grid cancel on Sept. 1, 1847 folded letter from Baltimore to "Rev. Asher Wright, near Irving, Chautauqua County, Cattaraugus Reservation, New York"; cover flaws, Fine appearance.
Scott $1,750
The letter is from P.E. Thomas to Wright, a Presbyterian missionary among the Seneca Indian Tribe. Thomas encloses a letter [not present] for Wright to "…deliver and interpret…to Israel Jameson [a Seneca Chief] as early as it be conveniently done…".
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