Lot
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Steam Packet Columbia (Gulf of Mexico, Galveston-New Orleans), red 2-line handstamp on folded cover to Houston, Texas with manuscript "Free", addressed to "Ashbel Smith, Surgeon General of Texas", light vert. file fold, Extremely Fine, Illustrated in Milgram.Milgram No. 266 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Upon arriving in Texas in 1837, Ashbel Smith quickly became well-acquainted with Sam Houston and was appointed as the surgeon general of the Republic of Texas Army. Despite the end of the Texas Revolution, Smith established an efficient medical system and founded the first hospital in what would later become Houston.
Realized: $1,350