Lot 30
Pacific Express Co., printed Paid frank with woodcut of rider on 3¢ red entire (U9) to Sarah Pellet at Bidwells Bar with blue "Everts, Davis & Co's Express Marysville" oval and "Pacific Express Co. Sacramento Oct. 31" oval datestamp, manuscript. instructions from American Valley requesting forwarding, reverse has notes from Miss Pellet with a list of names to be written to (petition?) incl. "Gov. Foote" (presumably former Miss. Gov. Henry S. who had moved to Cal.) and various judges, Fine & unusual.
Estimate $500 - 750
Provenance: Lichtenstein, Hall
Pellet, an associate of Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone, was a popular temperance lecturer on the west coast, especially in the mining towns where a woman standing on a box in front of a saloon represented rare entertainment for easily aroused miners. In 1854 she tried (and failed) to arrange the importation of 5,000 New England young women to California, chaperoned by the Sons of Temperance. In exchange, miners were expected to give up alcohol.
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| Realized $375 |
