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(Sacramento) Sacramento (Cal.) Sep 30. Magenta manuscript postmark and matching "Paid 40" manuscript rate marking on stampless folded letter to Milan, Indiana, letter is headed "Webberville Upper California Sep 23rd 1849" and reads in part "I have not dug any yet [as] we are setting up a grocery and I have been laying in the goods. I have no more time to write at present Mr. Stern is now waiting to start to the City. Direct your Letters to Sacramento City [as] it is unhandy to get letters from San Francisco.", some discoloration & silked at the folds, Fine. Estimate $300 - 400.
The Sacramento Post Office was one of seven offices established by the Postmaster General's second Special Postal Agent in California, R. T. P. Allen, beginning in June of 1849.
Realized: $375