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EFFECTOF STEAM 1838 -1840 Complete Voyage - The Orpheus

Black Ball Line

NEW YoRK TO LONDON
(VIA LIVERPOOL)

Ship Information
Orpheus departed
New York March
23, 1839, arrived
Liverpool April 14,
1839. She made one
more voyage before
leaving the packet
fleet.

Postal Rates
United States 0
Great Britain 4/9
(3 x 8d) + (3 x ltd)= 57d
or4/9

Triple letter carried to forwarding agent Gilpin's Exchange
Reading Room and Foreign Letter Office, New York.
Dispatched on packet as indicated in lower left.

LONDON TO NEW YoRK
(VIA LIVERPOOL)
Letter posted in London and
placed in bag for New York,
GPO Notice January 12,
1838, therefore no Liverpool
markings. Red rimless oval
London Paid marking is
Robertson type S51, in use
1838 to 1847.

Ship Information

Orpheus departed Liverpool
on return leg May 8, 1839,
arrived New York June 1,
1839.

Postal Rates
Great Britain 1/-
Per GPO Notice January 12, 1838.
United States 6¢