Lot
2515 
Liberia, Bassa Cove, 6 July 1841. Dateline on lengthy 3-page letter from Louis Sheridan to Benjamin Coates in Philadelphia, Pa., entered the mails in Philadelphia with blue "6" in octagon rate handstamp, letter mentions Seys' departure from Liberia, having no seed for a garden in the spring, requests the sending of several "Seine" (large fishing net)…Our rivers abound with fish & we have no means of taking them, etc.; some light toning, F.-V.F. Estimate $300 - 400.
Louis Sheridan had initially opposed colonization and after the North Carolina placed tighter restrictions on free people of color in the 1830s, he joined the Liberian colonization movement. He sold his slaves and moved with his family to Liberia in 1837, where he found a situation far less rosy than he anticipated and wrote (often negative) reports back to the United States. He remained there nevertheless and died there in 1844.
Realized: $375