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WEST INDIES MARITIME MAIL - PRE 1842
THE FALMOUTH PACKET
An entire written in Havana on 19th June 1838 and put on HMS Alert. She arrived at
Falmouth after a passage of 27 days when the cover was charged 9/3d, being treble the 3/1 d rate
- 2/1 d packet ex the Foreign West Indies and 1/- inland. This was denied by Frederick Huth,
the addressee, and 3/ld was probably credited to his account.
A wrapper that originated in St Thomas in 1841, carried by H. Bell, Brig Swift” during
the final year of operation of the Falmouth Packet. It arrived in London on 19 June when it was
struck with Tabeart P4 in black and charged 1/5. Since the 1840 reforms the Foreign West Indies
rate had been l/3d packet and 2d inland to anywhere in the U.K.
