Lot
1089 
Choctaw Agency West of Ark. July 7, 1845, manuscript postmark with matching "10" rating on folded letter to New Castle Tenn., datelined "Fort Coffee, July 6th, 1845", the letter is from a fellow missionary w interesting contents and states, in part, "…We have forty boys in school eight from the neighborhood and thirty two boarding in the school, several of them pious. Last Sunday I tried to preach my first Choctaw sermon….W.L. McAlisted", minor toning and a few scattered fly specks, Very Fine and a rare postmark.Estimate $300 - 400.
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