cover -- 1832 (9 Aug.) entire letter headed "H.M.S. Rapid Malta" to London and redirected to Newcastle on Tyne, rated "3/2" (deleted) and "1/-", showing fine strike at upper right (crossed by pen stroke) with arrival d.s. on reverse; the writer had just received " orders from the Commander in Chief to go and seek for the foundation of Graham's Island and then go up the Gulf of Lepanto..". Photo

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cover -- 1832 (9 Aug.) entire letter headed "H.M.S. Rapid Malta" to London and redirected to Newcastle on Tyne, rated "3/2" (deleted) and "1/-", showing fine strike at upper right (crossed by pen stroke) with arrival d.s. on reverse; the writer had just received " orders from the Commander in Chief to go and seek for the foundation of Graham's Island and then go up the Gulf of Lepanto..". Photo

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