Lot
4071 
"S.B. Feliciana", manuscript endorsement on folded letter datelined "Office Bank of United States, New Orleans 14th March 1827" and addressed to Bank State of Mississippi at Natchez Miss., manuscript "SB 37½" rating as double-weight steamboat letter for up to 400 miles, the letter charges as it was carried on a Post Road in accordance with the Act of 1824; central fold stain, fold separations have been reinforced with non-archival tape that should be properly removed, Fine, an early steamboat letter. Estimate $300 - 400.
The "Feliciana" of 408 tons was built in 1818 at Philadelphia for the St. Francisville Steamboat Co. with Paul A. Oliver as Master. By 1827 the owners were the Louisiana Towboat Co., Inc. with James Riddles as the Master.