Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
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The rate for a single letter (one sheet of paper) traveling more than 400 miles was 25 cents. The absence of the word \"Paid\" indicates that the letter was sent unpaid and 25 cents was collected from the addressee."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "David Shelton Edwards is beginning to feel that his wife Harriet and children are \"like creations of Fancy\" because he has not heard from Harriet in so long. He remarks again that he leaves the decision up to her of what to do with the children during her visit to see him in Pensacola, Florida and gives her the latest updates on the officers at the Navy Yard."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "This letter is part of the correspondence of David Shelton Edwards between the years 1835 and 1848. The 48 letters from this period held by the National Postal Museum are primarily addressed to Edward's wife Harriet; in 1830, Edwards married Harriet Eliza Henry and they had two children, William and Harriet. They kept up a frequent correspondence when his naval carrier kept them separated. Between 1835 and 1848 Edwards served as a Surgeon at the hospital in the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida; Fleet Surgeon to the West Indies Squadron; and Surgeon aboard many vessels engaged in the Mexican-American War. His naval carrier spanned from 1818 to 1861 and his last sea cruise ended in October of 1859 after which he retired to his family home in Connecticut except for a brief time spent at New Bedford, Massachusetts recruiting for the Union Navy during the Civil War. He died in Trumbull, Connecticut on March 18, 1874."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Reference:"}, {"label": "Description", "content": "\"Florida Stampless Postal History, 1763-1861\" principal editor Deane R. Briggs, MD, published by David G. Phillips Publishing Co., 1999, p. 229, marking no. 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