cover 3c Dull Red (11), ample margins to very slightly in, tied by small 'Paid' in grid and faint red Boston, Mass. c.d.s. on very fresh 1856 pale gray missionary folded letter to Conn., letter headed Bhamdun (Lebanon), May 31, 1856, this cover was bootlegged to Boston where it entered the U.S. mails, mostly readable red 'Forwarded by J.M. Gordon, Treasurer, A.B.C.F.M.' (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions) forwarder's backstamp, a very desirable cover from a very scarce Middle Eastern origin, fine photo est.