Blockade Run, Savannah Ga. to Rome (Italy) via Charleston and Nassau. Docketed Savannah Jan. 22, 1864 on cover to Mrs, John Lorenzo Locke in Rome, in care of two forwarders incl. Baring Brothers, unnamed forwarder in Bahamas dropped it unpaid into the Bahamian mails on Feb. 1, marked 2sh due, comprising 1sh packet postage plus 1sh penalty (accounting at upper right, retained 7p of 2sh), some edge wear, otherwise Very Fine, carried by the Alice, departing Wilmington Jan. 27, 1864, arriving Nassau Feb. 1, carried on Cunarder Corsica, departing Nassau Feb. 15, 1864, arriving New York Feb. 20, then by Cunarder China, departing New York Feb. 24, arriving Queenstown Mar. 7, Baring Bros. paid 2sh, crossed out their name and re-mailed the cover on Mar. 8 at local post office on Lombard Street, prepaid 1sh10p (double 11p to Italy via France), received at Rome on July 14, the Alice was owned by the Importing & Exporting Co. of South Carolina and was active May 1863 to Mar. 1865, it was 24 for 24 in successful trips and survived the war

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