December Auction

Closing January 5, 2009

Lot 23. Folded letter, 17 June 1782 from William's Burg Virginia to Port au Prince, marked with

very nice CAP, Jamet type 8, and manuscript 2E postage due. Item is clean and sound

and quite attractive. Contents are in French to the uncle of the writer in a clear, neat hand

and are quite readable. Date is following the British defeat at Yorktown, but before the

signing of a treaty formally ending the American Revolution.

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