Mobile Ala. to London via Havana, Cuba and St. Thomas. Blue folded cover addressed to Rothschild & Son in London, docketed "1862 J.L. Grunn? 29 Oct" with additional pencil "Mobile" (which is probably non-contemporary), carried from Mobile by blockade runner, possibly the Cuba, which departed Mobile Sep. 29, 1862, likely mailed as an inner cover as no C.S.A. postmarks are present, from Havana it was likely carried to St. Thomas where it entered the British mails as an unpaid letter, the RMSP Atrato departed St. Thomas Sep. 29 and arrived Southampton Oct. 13, matching the "Southampton Packet Letter OC 13 1862" rimless circular datestamp, "London B6 OC 13 62" arrival datestamp and "6d" due handstamp, minor bleaching along file fold, still fresh and Very Fine, extremely rare, very little blockade-run mail went through the port of Mobile Alabama and all of it was carried to or from Havana, the Special Routes book records only five such Mobile outbound blockade-run covers (this one not listed)

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