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EFFECT OF STEAM 1838 - 1840 The Sheffield
Freight Money and Too Late
Red Star Line
BALTIMORE TO LONDON
(VIA NEW YoRK AND LIVERPOOL)
Letter posted in Baltimore, endorsed for dispatch on
the British Queen. It arrived too late for the British
Queen and was rerouted to the Sheffield. The freight
money was collected in Baltimore for a steam ship, 25 ¢
requiring an adjustment by the New York Post Master
of121h¢ when accounts were balanced.
Postal Rates
Ship Information United States 31 %¢
Sheffield departed 183,4¢ + 121h¢
New York December Great Britain 8d
14, 1840, and arrived
Liverpool January
11, 1841.
