Lot 170
Bermuda
Sold
£400
Est.
£250 - £300
Live Auction
GPA 160: The Langton Hill Collections of Bermuda, Ascension, Saint Helena and Tobago
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Bermuda: 1804 (Jan. 9) entire letter to Philadelphia, datelined at Curaçao and endorsed ‘p Schr Sukey/Ed. Lewis Mr/for Pha.’ at lower left, the ship captured during the Napoleonic War, by HMS Driver and carried to Bermuda where endorsed ‘No.14’ at right, probably by the Vice Admiralty Court and likely to have been released on April 6 at the same time the vessel freed. With typed transcribed content. Ex Ludington. Photo.