Lot
1352 
"Fort Brooke Tampa Bay East Florida, 2d Sept 1835", datelined folded letter with manuscript "Tampa Fla, Sept. 3 1835" postmark (Type I) and matching "25" cent rating to Cadet E.W. Morgan at West Point, contents from ex-cadet who left under unstated but unhappy circumstances, mentions support of friends, gossip about others in the military, and mention "the mail comes and goes from this place by express without any regularity"; some ink bleed through, Fine, This is the earliest recorded Tampa type I postmark. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $900