VA3247

USA #26 tied by the BLUE Portsmouth, Va CDS 23 APR 1861 (year is in the CDS) Virginia Independent State. College Cover with colorless embossed fancy corner card at the upper left "Collegiate Seminary for Young Ladies Rev A. J. Leavenworth Principal Petersburg Va." Addressed to Miss Nellie C. Wordin Care of Rev A. J. Leavenworth, Petersburg, Va. This cover is the listing cover and the one illustrated in the College Cover section of the CSA Catalog (CC VA-05). Very Fine. The school was founded in 1855 but did not survive the war. The addressee, Nellie Wordin (b1845), was from a wealthy Connecticut family and was a student at the school 1860-1861 returning to Connecticut at the start of the war. Rev A. J. Leavenworth (1803-1869), a Presbyterian clergyman, was her uncle.

$750.00

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