Items for Sale - Blockade-Run Mail

Item# 20647

New 2-25-23

Price: $1,700

Incoming blockade-run cover with WILMINGTON N.C. MAR 17 (1863) altered rate 3 to 5 PAID circular datestamp on narrow commercially-made envelope with large manuscript Due 12, addressed to Miss Harriott Middleton, Flat Rock, Buncombe County, North Carolina. 1988 CSA certificate 01771, Ex Ralph Swap. $1,700.

Harriott Simmons Middleton: The Middleton correspondence is well known to Confederate students and the family papers are in the SC Historical Society. Harriott (1828-1905) was the daughter of Henry A. Middleton, a wealthy planting family.

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