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INTER ISLAND MAIL

An entire from Trinidad informing the recipient that the sender was despatching a schooner
for sale in Grenada, or if unsuccessful suggesting it should be registered in Barbados. It was franked
with an imperf brownish grey on bluish paper paying the inland fee and charged 4d for the inter­
island transit. Back stamped in Trinidad on 10th February 1853, it was carried by “Derwent” to
Grenada arriving a day later. Ex Pitts and Marriott.

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A wrapper from the Board of Health in Trinidad addressed to its opposite number in Antigua,
with enclosures, no longer preseitt; M idh necessitated the payment of a 2 oz. rate of l/4d: The cover
was franked with an imperf dark grey 1 d oil white paper paying the inland costs. The cover was back
stamped in Trinidad on 25 October 1854 and taken to Barbados by “Prince”. Here it was transferred
to “Wye” on the 27th arriving in Antigua on the 30th, a 5-day transit. Ex Pitts and Marriott.