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THE EARLIEST RECORDED CORRESPONDENCE FROM NORTH BORNEO

Cover from the 'Po/lock' correspondence with enclosed letter dated 'Sandakan MY 141882'
1882 (MY 25) cover to London correctly franked with a Labuan lOc stamp for mail to the UK, stamp tied
with oval of9 bars (Proud K3), thirteen months earlier than recorded plus Labuan c.d.s. (Proud D4).

Part of enclosed letter
(reduced to 60%) with
correspondents seal in
English, Jawi and Chinese

Contents of enclosed letter, contains interesting details concerning local shipping

81
Sandakan May 21 1882
MydearSis,
The SS Ju/ieta has come in unexpected/y today and will /eave tomorrow for Labuan. I have sent a letter by
the Fei Lung today via Saigon but you'// probab/y get this first. We get no mai/ as she has been to Java and
Su/u. I dare say I sha// hear more about her tomorrow morning. I thought J was going to have a quiet week
but to begin with a steamer and then probab/y at the end of the week another one, is rather different to what
it was when I came. The steamer which has come in today has come for the first time, to have a /ook round. I
am glad of it because competition is a good thing. I hear that she has got a six months charter. She /eaves for
Labuan today Monday May 22"" at 5 pm so J must stop.
Yours affec.
Barclay Pollock