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Item# 8449
Price: $170
U.S. #26, 3¢ dull red tied SAVANNAH Ga. / MAR / 8 / 1861 cds and grid on folded letter to A E Gowdy Esq, Scitua, Conn. from E. J. Gowdy, a couple of “bites” out of letter, most evident at upper right. Letter mostly business from one brother to another complaining about the high cost of shipping gin from Georgia to New York. The last line is rather telling of what is about to come,“there is not much doing in cotton, they are waiting to see what Mr. Lincoln is going to do.” Full transcription included. [GA] $170.