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Disinfecting Indian Mails at Malta, 1838-51
In my previous article, I had briefly touched upon disinfection of Indian mails transiting France, initially at Marseilles and then at Malta. In this, I will go into details of the latter. The Lazaretto at Malta Malta is a principal island in the center of the Mediterranean. Its harbours have provided shelter and safe anchorage…
Not Just Waghorn: Ten Facets of a Calcutta-London Letter, August 1837
Letters of the classic era (generally pre-1875), especially those to and from foreign destinations, generally contain multiple points of interest. Some facets are apparent at first glance while others need hours of research. Trying to decipher them all is a joy for a postal historian! Recently, I came across a letter pictured in Figure 1….
Indian Mails on Egyptian Steamer, October 1839: Waghorn Saves the Day
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (Figure 1) is remembered as the most important personality in the development of the ‘Overland Route’ between Great Britain and India in the 1830s. For almost 200 years, he has been hyped up as a paragon of virtue: someone with boundless energy and enterprise who toiled endlessly to realise his dream of…
Southampton Packet Letter handstamp on Indian Mails
The straight-line ‘PACKET LETTER / SOUTHAMPTON’ or the circular ‘SOUTHAMPTON PACKET LETTER’ (both ‘SPL’) handstamps (Figure 1), were applied at that southern English port on mails arriving on packet boats. I have not been able to find much documentation or literature as to the raison d’être of this stamp. In Willcocks (1975, p. 146), Alan…
An Ambulance Envelope associated with the Wreck of S.S. Ava, 1858
Postal history covers and entire letters saved from the wreck of the Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Company’s (P&O) steamer Ava1 are well-known to Indian postal historians, especially those specializing in 19th century mails. These are also sought after by collectors of worldwide maritime disaster postal history. As Hoggarth and Gwynn (2004) make it clear in…
Four Letters to Westwinstead, Connecticut
The title of this post has been inspired from that 2017 movie’ quirky title: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. For centuries, countries in Europe were at loggerheads resulting in innumerable wars. While history remembers the generals and admirals who won laurels, wars couldn’t have been fought without the poorly paid and much neglected soldiers and…
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