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Item# 19965
Price: $170
CSA 1, 5¢ green (gum stains) tied blue PETERSBURG / Va. // APR / 3 (1862) CDS on cover addressed to Joseph Jackson Esq., Linden Row, Franklin Street above Second, Richmond (Va). SCV $310. $170.
Linden Row Inn was (and still is!) an elegant full-service inn and registered national landmark famous as the childhood home of Edgar Allan Poe and mentioned by him in poem as the “enchanted garden.” See here for more info. Some magazine articles on the topic accompany the lot.