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Sale 37: The Westpex Sale

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Hawaii - Incoming Mail

Lot 1757    

Hawaii, Boston, Mass. to "Owhyhee". Two page letter datelined "Boston, Dec 13, 1822" from L.A. Hill addressed to Elizabeth Bishop with "Care of Rev. Mr. Bishop or Mr. L. Chamberlain, Sandwich Isl." endorsement at bottom left, carried outside the mails and sent less than one month after the Bishops departure for Hawaii which is inferred in the first line of the letter…The winds & the waves are bearing you away to the Islands of the seas.; file folds, Very Fine, a very early incoming letter to Hawaii; with 1977 P.F. certificate.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $2,300

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