Autograph letter signed to his agents, Messrs Cox, from Sydney

by George Johnston

A$155,000 · Offered by Hordern House

Sydney: 26 August 1794. Folded sheet of laid paper 310 x 190mm, folded to letter-size with postal marks and retaining the original seal; watermarked S LAY identified as made by Samuel Lay at St. Mary Cray Mill Sittingbourne Kent England, around 1793. A first fleeter's letter: an exceptional survival.

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