Lot
781 
Pannamare [Panama City] June 29, 1851, dateline on bluish folded letter addressed to Voluntown, Conn, with bold two-line "STEAM SHIP" in black and matching "40" in circle rate marking; letter reads, in part, "…the steamer went to Havannah wher we lad to stop 1-1/2 days we had good fare on the Gorga but the Falcon is a hard oald ship…the burths was covered with lice so wee thought best to slepe on deck which was full as comfatable wee arived to shagres [Chagres] the twenty third it is the most sunkon places that I ever saw…we stoped about two hours till wee could git a bout to go up the river with 4 natives when wee had got ten miles night over tuck us…my helth has ben very good all except being sea sick on the Gorga som of the company is rather sick to day with the Diare but nothing dangers…about fifteen minets ago to blacks men brout out of the prison by the soldiers dresed in white a companed by a cathalic prest led up to the stakes the pres sat down on a stool the murders kneeled down to prests throde three cloak over Theresienstadt hedds and whispered to parden there sins then they was each one tied to the stake while forteen natives soldiers shot, one strugld but they shot him over such site I never saw before but it was two good for them they was two of the five that murderd the ten os shagres river men women and chrilden…I will write you as soon as I git to sanfrancisco I have seen a lot just returning from the mines with good nuse and I feel in couraged to go on…Henry F. Douglass", toned at edges and along folds, some staining at left and pressed out vertical file fold, Very Fine.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $575