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cover 1840 (12 Sept.) entire from the Mission Station at Kuruman to Rev. W. Ellis in London and marked "care of Revd. D. Philip, Church Square Cape Town", rated "2/4" and showing a good strike of the crowned "GENERAL POST OFFICE/CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" d.s. for 3 December, manuscript notation inside shows the letter as arriving on 17 March 1841, over six months after the letter was written. The entire with central horizontal filing fold and light crease at left. A rare early missionary entire. Photo
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cover 1840 (12 Sept.) entire from the Mission Station at Kuruman to Rev. W. Ellis in London and marked "care of Revd. D. Philip, Church Square Cape Town", rated "2/4" and showing a good strike of the crowned "GENERAL POST OFFICE/CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" d.s. for 3 December, manuscript notation inside shows the letter as arriving on 17 March 1841, over six months after the letter was written. The entire with central horizontal filing fold and light crease at left. A rare early missionary entire. Photo

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cover 1840 (12 Sept.) entire from the Mission Station at Kuruman to Rev. W. Ellis in London and marked "care of Revd. D. Philip, Church Square Cape Town", rated "2/4" and showing a good strike of the crowned "GENERAL POST OFFICE/CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" d.s. for 3 December, manuscript notation inside shows the letter as arriving on 17 March 1841, over six months after the letter was written. The entire with central horizontal filing fold and light crease at left. A rare early missionary entire. Photo
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Note: Correspondence from the Mission Station in the early days was taken by native runners, traders or others going that way and was delivered to the Rev. John Philip, the London Missionary Society's representative, who arranged with the Cape Post Office for payment of the postage and it's onward transmission. The cover was written by Roger Edwards and Robert Hamilton, artisans working under Robert Moffat, a contemporary of David Livingstone