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cover 1836 (31 Aug.) entire letter from Calcutta to Scotland "By the overland Mail of 16 Sept. from Bombay by way of Korna and the Persian Gulph.", rated manuscript "R7" and "3/7½" and showing "INDIA/Packet Letter/PAID" in circle in red, light "MALTA/F" d.s. and boxed "½" in green applied at Falmouth, and a London transit d.s. Perhaps the finest of the very few existing letters that can be catagorically ascribed to have been carried by Col. Chesney's ill-fated "Euphrates Route". Photo
cover 1836 (31 Aug.) entire letter from Calcutta to Scotland "By the overland Mail of 16 Sept. from Bombay by way of Korna and the Persian Gulph.", rated manuscript "R7" and "3/7½" and showing "INDIA/Packet Letter/PAID" in circle in red, light "MALTA/F" d.s. and boxed "½" in green applied at Falmouth, and a London transit d.s. Perhaps the finest of the very few existing letters that can be catagorically ascribed to have been carried by Col. Chesney's ill-fated "Euphrates Route". Photo

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cover 1836 (31 Aug.) entire letter from Calcutta to Scotland "By the overland Mail of 16 Sept. from Bombay by way of Korna and the Persian Gulph.", rated manuscript "R7" and "3/7½" and showing "INDIA/Packet Letter/PAID" in circle in red, light "MALTA/F" d.s. and boxed "½" in green applied at Falmouth, and a London transit d.s. Perhaps the finest of the very few existing letters that can be catagorically ascribed to have been carried by Col. Chesney's ill-fated "Euphrates Route". Photo