Summer 2025 | July 18-20, 2025

Aug 15, 18444 folded letter with red "FOWARDED BY AMERICAN MAIL CO. NO 102 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA" handstamp. Docketed "R.R. Boyd Aug 15/44", who was a merchant in New York. The stamp heavily torn away, perhaps to prevent reuse by the addressee, and the letter with horizontal and vertical file folds.

Manuscript "American Mail". The letter with fold separations.

Datelined September 18, 1844, folded letter sent from Birmingham, England to Philadelphia. Carried on the Cunard Line Caledonia, which departed Liverpool on September 18 and arrived in Boston on October 2. Addressed to Philadelphia. Forwarded from Boston to Philadelphia by the American Letter Mail Co. Duplicate invoice contents noted.

Folded letter dated August 1, 1844, from New York. Struck with "Forwarded by American Mail Co. from No. 109 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia" handstamp (ALM-PHL-F10) and "Collect 6 1/2 cts New York Office" (C05). Addressed to commission merchant A. N. Thom, referencing an order.