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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01896.138 Author/Creator: Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Envelope Date: August 13, 1900 Pagination: 1 envelope Height: 8 cm, Width: 13 cm Order a Copy

Envelope: "Wi[stm]inster Palace Hotel, London. Mr. E.R. Archer, Care Brown, Shipley & Co." Attached to the envelope is a forwarding slip reading: "Care of Messrs. Munroe & Co., [struck: Paris]" and marked as being received 1900/08/13. United States postage stamps (two red two-cent stamps and one green one-cent stamp) to the amount of five cents affixed. Includes a number of postage marks on reverse side

Archer, Edward Richard, 1834-1918

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