(Route 6003) "Natchez No. 2", manuscript steamboat endorsement at lower left on 1851 folded letter datelined "Vicksburg 1 July 1851" to New Orleans, "New Orleans La. July 4" cds and matching crisp strike of "Way 6" rating handstamp for the new 5¢ unpaid letter rate plus the 1¢ way fee, Very Fine, a rare steamboat letter written on the First Day of the new 3¢ letter rate., ex-Eggen. Estimate  $300 - 400. The second "Natchez" was the first built for Captain Thomas P. Leathers, at Crayfish Bayou, and ran from 1845 to 1848. It was a fast two-boiler boat, 175 feet long, with red smokestacks, that sailed between New Orleans and Vicksburg, Miss. It was built in Cincinnati Oh. and Leathers sold it in 1848. It was abandoned in 1852. $0 (Image)