Lot 4375
Confederacy, 1864 (Jul. 12) Incoming Blockade Letter from Edinburgh, Scotland to Charleston S.C., letter only apparently sent privately via the Bahamas, with original note from local forwarder E.G. Douglas who apparently arranged to send the letter out of the mails via unknown blockade runner into Charleston, note reads "A Friend of yours in London has enclosed this letter to me requesting me to forward it to you by what I consider a likely route. So I take the liberty of putting in this scrap requesting you of it should rech you, to inform my sister…Mr. Miue who left here for Charleston a few weeks ago was kind enough to call to see us and got a message for her. Hoping this will each you", Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $180