Object Details
- Description
- This envelope is from one of the Hincks brothers to his father. The letter was probably placed aboard a blockade runner and handed over in Nassau to a ship bound for New Orleans. Upon arrival in New Orleans on January 8, 1865, the letter was treated as an unpaid incoming ship letter and marked with ten cents due.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Recipient
- Hincks
- Date
- January 8, 1865
- Medium
- paper; ink / handwritten, handstamped
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
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