Falkland Islands: 1750 “VUE de la Baie de l'Est de la plus grande des ILES MALOUINES, et de son Habitation”, published by Bellin of Paris from “L’ Histoire Générale des Voyages”, published by Pierre de Hondt, The Hague. Photo. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: Early Mail and Documents: 1862 Great Britain 1d. pink postal stationery envelope sent from Southwell, Notts addressed to Rev. John Ogle in London, cancelled by barred oval with Sept. 2 despatch and next day arrival backstamps. Rev. John Furniss Ogle (1823-1865) arrived in the Falkland Islands on Aug. 30 1856 as an unpaid volunteer but left the Patagonian Mission after a sharp disagreement with George Pakenham Despard, the Mission Superintendent. An attempt to organise his own mission on Picton Island in the Beagle Channel proved unsuccessful and in July 1857 he returned to England. Ogle drowned at sea in the wreck of the “Borysthène” off the coast of Algeria in 1865 and a compilation of his letters was first published in 1873. Photo. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: Early Mail and Documents: 1887 envelope addressed to Annie Stirling Juxon Jones c/o her uncle “The Right Rev. the Lord/Bishop of the Falkland Islands” in Buenos Aires, sent Oct. 7 from New York franked 10c., with arrival backstamps, some toning. Waite Hockin Stirling (1829-1923) had begun his spiritual work as a missionary with the Patagonian Missionary Society (later known as the South American Missionary Society) and became the first Anglican Bishop of the Falkland Islands in 1869, not resigning from his position until 1900. Photo. (Image1)