| SC887 |
Turned Cover -- First Use
(inside) Handcarried
outside the Postal System undated to Dr. M. E. Carrere, Charleston SC.
Receiving docketing at the top “From My Mother.” Maynard Edward Carrere
(1813-1879), a Charleston native and a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania Medical School, was a prominent physician and surgeon in
Charleston. During the war, he was a volunteer surgeon at the
Charleston Hospital. Second
Use (outside) CSA #12 (KB) (4-Margin) tied by the BLUE Columbia SC
CDS (the date is weak but appears to be in MAR 1865) addressed to Mr.
Solomon Legare, a relative of Dr. Carrere’s first wife Mary
Wilkinson Legare (d1855). Very clean cover and complete. |
$200.00
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