Confederacy, Charleston S.C. Feb 6 1861, cds with matching circular grid cancelling 3¢ dull red (26) on cover to London Island N.Y., original letter was datelined Feb. 3rd, the day before the C.S.A. was formed but not postmarked until three days later, the writer reflected the mood of the times with a dateline of "Republic of South Carolina", Very Fine. Estimate  $200 - 300. Interesting content concerns censorship, "…a great many of the letters from the north were opened here, likewise those sent from here to the north too, for the purpose of finding out the correspondent of the Tribune who took such particular care & pleasure in writing the most palpable lies about the state of things in our so-little-understood city of Charleston…". $0 (Image)