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WEST INDIES MARITIME MAIL - THE FALMOUTH PACKET

The Admiralty took over the responsibility of operating the Falmouth Packets from
the Post Office in 1824. This letter was written in St Kitts on 20th April 1827, addressed to James
McQueen, the founder of the Royal Mail Steam packet and was carried by “HMS Sphynx”, a 10
gun brig. It was back stamped with a St Kitts small fleuron and again on arrival in Glasgow on 23rd
May. It was a treble letter and was charged 3/9d packet and 3/6d inland from Falmouth to
Glasgow together with a 'Ad Scottish wheel tax, 7/3 'Ad all in, amended from 7/4 'Ad.

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An entire concerning the revival of Surprise and Brechin Castle Estates, written in Trinidad
and back stamped there with a Type 3 fleuron, on 2nd September 1836. In Falmouth it was rated
2/2d, l/3d packet and lid inland to London, where it was back stamped on 16th October; a transit
of 48 days.