Cover with family letter from New York care of forwarding agents Baring Brothers, London, England August 5, 1851. Sent at unpaid 24 cents treaty rate and carried on Cunard's "America" from Boston. "New 5 York" debit and 1 shilling manuscript transit and London backstamp. Ex-Pullin.

Nice 5 rate international postal marking on this cover from New York City to London.  Contents are a letter from C. D. Sackett to his son Adam who is traveling abroad.  Three pages of easy to read correspondence. In response to a letter he received from Adam he says: "Your account of your travels tho very brief are interesting and graphic and I am pleased to find that your extended stay has not turned your head, but that you still see things in their true and proper light."  Typical of letters of this era, he is trying to cram in as much news as he can and the death of one Rachell Evers in Paris is noted between "Do you think of going to Iceland" and "I was glad to hear you had written to your grandfather".