2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Group of three letters penned by a Northern school teacher caught behind the lines in Kentucky during the summer of 1861, two with covers to her mother in New Hampshire, with good content pertaining to the postal system, in part: “...I am going to make a plan with a friend...to send my letters over into the Ky. P.O. and then suppose they will go without any stoppage. I hope you have not attempted sending me any intelligence through the U.S. Post Office for if you have they (the letters) are safely lodged in Washington and I shall never get sight at them...When I want to send a letter North enclose it in a small envelope with a three cent stamp and this first envelope in another on which I pay five cents as the postal rate of the Confederate States requires that for every five hundred miles. I direct the outer envelope to this friend of mine on the line. The inner envelope on which is a three cent stamp for the Federal government I direct to you...This lady will put it in the Ky. Post Office and away it goes safely, for Ky. is not seceeded yet. Then when you wish to reply you must do the same thing except that the outer envelope with you must have the three cent stamp and the inner one must have five cents to pay the Confederate tax...This is better than paying 33 cents to the Adams Express or 18 cents to the Letter Express Company. This company offers to carry letters back and forth till our trouble is over for ten cents per letter...” More. Fine.
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