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(El Dorado) Culloma, Alta Cal. Red double-lined cds with "Mar 26" red manuscript date and "12½" magenta manuscript rate marking on stampless folded letter to pioneer Oregon and California merchant Benjamin Stark in San Francisco, letter from a miner (Stark's cousin) is headed "Kelseys Road 23d March 1850" and notes that "The mail [is] leaving Columa in a day or two for San Francisco…" and "Mr. Marshall, the gentleman who was to call for my letters [in San Francisco], I have heard, concluded to stop till after the steamer now due arrives [from Panama]. If you have any [letters] now in your hands you will be so kind as to enclose them… care of Little + Co. "Columa" and drop it in the Post Office in time for the [next] mail [from San Francisco to Panama], which leaves about the 1st April.", Very Fine, ex-Haas, illustrated in Coburn's Letters of Gold (page 296). Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $800