Lot 20003 – 1844 (17.6) Folded entire from Reverend Justin Perkins

1844 (17.6) Folded entire from Reverend Justin Perkins in Oroomiah (Orumiah) mission addressed to Reverend Thomas Edward Vermilye in New York City, via Boston with red transit ds « BOSTON » and straight line « SHIP », plus « 20 » in circle, very fine, attractive and rare missionary letter, cert. Persiphila (2011)

Note: Reverend Justin Perkins wrote that the French Papists had again been ejected from Persia at the instance of the Russian Ambassador and that one of the Nestorian missionaries had died at Mosul weighed down by the failure of the mission to the wild mountains

Provenance: Samad Khorshid