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  • Lot# : 738 Egypt Kingdom

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    Thomas Waghorn 1838: 'Mr. Waghorn's Letter Book' with manuscript copies of letters sent by Thomas Waghorn during February 1838, including a lost letter claim: 'Your letter per 'Berenice' directed to T. Waghorn, Alexandria went on to England by mistake for not having the stamp mark of one of our Agent's on it...for the future be sure to get it marked by my Bombay Agent'. Together with a copy of an invoice for the Bombay Courier 'My charge for Post Charges to you @ 6d. each on 991 papers = £24, 15s. d.', further comments incl. 'I spent last night drawing up a document about 'Steamboats on the Nile and Carriages over the Desert... would quicken the Mails by three days' and 'the boxes (from India) could be weighed at the Malta Quarantine in the presence of the French Consul..', many of the letters ending with Thomas Waghorn's signature. An extraordinary and unique historical document.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 10,500 CHF