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Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
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Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

David Shelton Edwards, American, died 1874 · June 7, c. 1839

paper; ink / handwritten
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CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

All the pencil numerical notations on the letter (front and reverse) have no postal meaning. They were written on the letter after it was received.

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