Summer 2025 | July 18-20, 2025

Folded letter datelined March 22, 1732, endorsed "Pr. Mr. Macheleux" and marked with "Q.D.C.", carried privately from Philadelphia to Barbados. Addressed to John Yeates. Small stain at bottom right.

Letter datelined "26 Nov 1767" from John Baird in Blandford, Virginia, addressed to Newton & Gordon, Madeira. Carried privately to a port and placed aboard the Falmouth Packet Duncannon. Received "4 Jan 1768" and answered "18 Jan 1768".

There is an article written on August 20, 1767 from the Virginia Gazette that mentions a Captain Robert Crawford who is listed in manuscript on the FL, who had a West Indies Packet that entered the  James River. The FL most likely was put on a ship on the James River in Virginia that sailed directly to Madeira.

Also, there are sailing records that the Duncannon packet departed Falmouth on December 24, 1767, and arrived at Madeira on January 4, 1768​, taking 40 days to arrive in Madeira on January 4th as well.

Sheet dated August 16, 1773, documenting postal transactions between the Boston Post Office and the Post Office at Newport, Rhode Island. The form records unpaid, paid, and free letters along with the corresponding postage in pennyweights and grains. Signed at lower right by Tuthill Hubbart, who served as Postmaster of Boston from 1756 until March 1776. A similar example is illustrated in Blake & Davis, Boston Postal Markings to 1790, p. 9. An attractive and rare example of early American postal history predating the Revolutionary War.

Bold “BALE JAN 19” Baltimore straightline with a "." period beneath the "L", on 1794 folded letter, addressed to a French resident of Philadelphia at the corner of Arch and 7th Street.

Folded letter from Boston, Massachusetts dated November 29, 1799, addressed to Nathaniel Cushing in Pembroke, Mass. Clear straightline “BOSTON” handstamp with accompanying circular “29 NO” Bishop mark. Manuscript “8” rated for a distance under 40 miles. Manuscript notation at bottom left, "Hanover Post Office, to be left at,” indicating intended delivery through the neighboring post office in Hanover.