Lot
1094 
Doaksville C.N., 25 July 54, bold manuscript postmark franked with manuscript cancelled 1851 3¢ dull red (11, four margins) on brown cover to Grafton, Vermont; with original enclosure apparently from a missionary datelined "Pine Ridge July 12/54" [1854] and reads, in part, "…What a nice house yrs would be for some of these little Choctaw children who have no one to care for them…A few weeks since I was alone one sabbath night, with the exception of a Choctaw girl who slept above, a violent tornado with thunder and lightning came up between twelve and one the doors blew open, trees blown down their branches ledged in the kitchen…L.M. Aiken", Very Fine and choice.Scott No. 11 Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $375