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By: H. R. Harmer Inc
lot # 175 - u.s. postal history Wisconsin Postal History
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022 13:00 to Thursday Oct 27, 2022 20:00 America/New_York
manuscript postmark on 1841 folded letter to Peoria, Illinois, matching “Paid 25” rate, datelined “Madison, Wisconsin August 13, 1841”, letter written by James D. Doty proposing an exchange of land in Illinois and Wisconsin, presumably carried by government messenger on horseback from Madison to Fort Snelling and than transported along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Peoria, very fine and rare
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