Transatlantic cover to Haarlem, Netherlands

November 30, 1845

30 November 1845 folded letter from Philadelphia to Haarlem, Netherlands, paid 5¢ U.S. inland fee to New York. When first taken to the post office window in Philadelphia the 5¢ fee was marked in pencil, upper left corner. Later, three blue handstamps were applied in a separate operation based on the pencil notation: the Philadelphia circular datestamp, the octagonal PAID handstamp, and the double circle 5 handstamp. The letter was endorsed in the upper left corner for the Havre sailing packet of 1 December.