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Auction: 18037 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 939

Gold Coast
1844 (11 Oct.) long clean missionary letter from British Akra to London, rated "1/4" and with a fine strike of "portsmouth/ship-letter" in black, the reverse with London arrival (20.12). The letter, on two sheets of paper, is the half year accounts which were sent ont eh 'Robert Keddle'; basic details of the missions in different towns are recorded and the newly opened boys school in Cape Coast and his difficulties with the instruction prohibiting drawing more bibles

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£240