Corsair. Southern Rhodesia / Sudan. 1939 Long cover from Umtali, Southern Rhodesia to "The Director of Posts & Telegraphs, General Post Office, Khartoum", the stamps washed off, twice handstamped "Damaged by Water when the / Imperial Airways Aircraft forced / landed near Juba, Sudan" (one a little blurred, the much finer strike applied across the opened out right side flap). Also a postcard of the plane, sheet of unused "Corsair" notepaper, contemporary news cuttings reporting the crash or the salvage of the aircraft in 1940, and a copy of the reply to the letter originally enclosed in this cover sent by the Khartoum Postmaster to Capt. Creasy in Umtali, stating the letters he sent to the Postmasters of Juba, Kodok and Khartoum were damaged in the Corsair crash and are therefore returned, together with his 6d postal order. A very scarce cachet and crash cover. Photo on Page 14. (Image1)