December 2008 Society Auction

Lot 23. Folded letter, 17 June 1782, from William's Burg, Virginia to Port au Prince, marked with very nice CAP, Jamet type 8, and manuscript 2E postage due. Item is clean and sound and quite attractive. Contents are in French to the uncle of the writer in a clear, neat hand and are quite readable. Date is following the British defeat at Yorktown, but before the signing of a treaty formally ending the American Revolution.