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Scottish Industries

ustries which dominated Scotland's imports and export trade are highlighted: textiles, spirits, heavy industry and banking.
Each industry is represented by covers whose letter contents detail businesses engaged in these industries.
This section a!so includes mail from Scots living abroad by necessity of missionary work, military and civil service.

l 0 paid to Boston
li- unpaid onward

<-- lnside: Pr"ices
Current listing of
ag:ricultural goods:
featuring cott.on

npaid pa.0 ' letter to Greeno k., · tland. 10 paid (- X d.ar:k OTOWil arie ) in.land rate.
ew Orleans mail travcled the Great If.ail route to Boston for on ard steamer to Li erpool.
Carried b Cmi.ard Briumnia to Liverpool .., 1 Deœmber Live.JPO-Ol _ Jarruary arriva! Greenock

10 cash pd_ Boston
1/- unpaid onward

npaid letter to Greenock
·a Briti h Cunard packet
per Britannia.
30 . a , Liverpool,
31 ay Greenock.
10 handstamp applioo in
e; Orieans for US
• J
inland 1 O~ rate to Boston.
Cotton trade letter

Reverse
New Orleans, 6 May, 1848-25 days
Mc.Millian & Company: lmported cotton grown on plantations in southern US. This cotton shipped from New Orleans.