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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 2

(x) The Sir Robert Rich Correspondence
1620 (24 Sept.) entire letter from John Hanmer to Sir Nathanial Rich at Allinton House, High Holborn, London, hand-carried on the Joseph, a Company ship, a purely personal letter including notice of the death of Sir Nathaniel's brother, Mr. Rich, in Portugal and "I rest at your Service from Portroyall. Photo

Note: Another letter from the Rich correspondence is illustrated on page 3 of "Bermuda Mails to 1865" by Forand and Freeland

provenance:
10th. Duke of Manchester

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Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000