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EFFECT OF STEAM 1838 - 1840 The South America

Black Ball Line Q!iadruple Freight Money

BALTIMORE TO LONDON
(VIA NEW YoRK Al~D LIVERPOOL)

Letter posted and freight money collected by Post
Office in Baltimore. Post Office employees in
Baltimore noted the freight money and postal fees
separately in the upper right corner.

Postal Rates
United States $1.25
Ship Information
(4 x 18%) + (4 x 121h) = $1.25
South America Inland + freight money fee.
departed New York Great Britain 3/2d
February 19, 1839, (2 x 8d) + (2 x lld) = 3/2d
arrived Liverpool Ship Letter fee and inland
postage collected on delivery.
March 15, 1839.