Forwarded by (J)ames Jones. Clear strike of red two-line handstamp on folded cover to Cape Palmas, (Liberia) West Africa, docketing on back indicates New York origin, light vertical file fold well clear of marking, Very Fine, extremely scarce and desirable use, the recipient, Dr. Thomas S. Savage, graduated from Yale Medical College, was the first missionary sent to Africa under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was in Cape Palmas starting in 1836, returned to America and then came back in 1839 with his new wife, who died of disease in 1842, later he would publish information about a previously unknown variety of mammal, the gorilla -- this forwarding agent marking is unlisted in Rowe

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