99 - New Jersey Postal History Society

messages in one envelope so three or four letters could be sent for, perhaps, onlydouble postage. The cover below, from the author's collection, is a case in point. Itis postnidrked at Gabon on 21 June 1868. It went to France, then to England, put on theCunard packet China and is backstamped New York 17 August. This two month voyage was theaverage for letters that did not miss any connections......,....„,7 .fv?__,74,,, .........___3/cieez -:• ,/ -,r. frffw1,14\i„ -- i--yk, 60e,..: -. ••••••••••a•aa7CArt ir.-(.;:1.14.,,9g 1* • I. A l' f'.-'1/-t• A ,..--; , ,./ r.:'1 ./ze. •,,c)...,1 .," , '. ',9"" •. e' 4,' '•;,e,..//,. 1,..1 f , c ( _7/, ,,, > , A et,'..••"'".••••••••• ■••• • • • •It must have weighed just under one ounce since France charged a quadruple rate, seen bythe manuscript "4" near the upper left. Four times the 274 rate, $1.08, is seen aboutright center. Paid in depreciated currency, the payment became 126 ($1.26) seen at thetop left. It is adressed to the clergyman's parents at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Fromthe docketing it must also have contained a report to the Missionary Society. Some ofhis writings appeared in various religious magazines and papers and the "account of avoyage up the Benita" may have been the text of such an article. His children lived inthe United States so more than likely there were messages for them as well.•ca-c)--irav,erw- September 1992116