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Auction: 17026 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2008

Great Britain
Postal History
1803 (13 May) entire letter from London to Edinburgh, written by Sir James Mansfield, Solicitor General and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, to James Fraser, Secretary of the Bank of Scotland, with interesting contents regarding the shattering of the treaty of Amiens ".... General Andreossi received yesterday Dispatches from Paris, and you may be assured of the fact that Bonaparte was thrown from his Phaeton and much hurt this no doubt is the reason of our messenger not arriving yesterday - but I wish I could assure you as certainly of what is added - that Bonaparte had referred to our ultimatum to the Senate, if this is really the case Peace undoubtedly will be the consequence...."; the war resumed five days later. Photo

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Estimate
£250 to £300