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Packet Letter to Sierra Leone
1898 Packet Letter
15 September 1898 - Gloucester to Freetown, Sierra Leone
Arrival backstamp of 3 October 1898 in Freetown.
From 1 January 1891 until 24 December 1898 the packet rate was 2½d per half ounce. The recipient, Sir
David Chalmers, was the Royal Commissioner at Freetown.
At this date, mail packets were leaving Liverpool for the West Coast of Africa every Saturday and every other
Wednesday.
Transit time for this letter was 18 days.
