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1844 mercantile entire headed "Bunbury 9th Feby 1844" and endorsed within "Triplicate pr Velocity/original pr Ganges/Duplicate pr Shepherd", to London endorsed "pr Velocity", rated "4d" with very fine strike of the
boxed 'PAID/("13.3.44")/FREMANTLE' h/s in red, London 'SHIP LETTER' h/s & ' VT /20OC20/1844' arrival cds both in red & rated "8" for an inwards shipletter, ironed-out vertical fold at left. [The writer, James Kaye Child, arrived at
Australind per 'Henry' on 20.4.1841, aged 25. During 1844, he commenced a whaling venture at Bunbury but died in 1846]
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