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EFFECT OF STEAM 1838 -1840                                              The Westchester-Temporary Charter

       Red Star Line




                                         NEwYoRKTO GLAsoow, ScoTLAND

                                                     (VIA LIVERPOOL)






















































                                   Letter carried to the Gilpin's Exchange Reading Room
                                   and  Foreign  Letter  Office.  Letter  traveled  through
                                   Scotland in a four wheeled coach indicated by the black
                                   "1'-,,  t
                                    r2  s amp.
                                                                            Postal Rates
                                      Ship Information
                                                                       United States         0
                                The Westchester departed New           Great Britain     1/71h
                                                                                1
                                                                                       1
                                York March 19, 1839, arrived            8d + 11d + hd = l 9 hd or
                                Liverpool April 10, 1839.  She          1/71h
                                was  a  temporary  charter  to
                                replace the Saint Andrew lost
                                 in the Liverpool hurricane.
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