Manuscript cross-out cancel on this cover.  Listing this as 11A, but not color of stamp. Letter is from Dr. Howland Holmes, of Lexington, MA, to John Jenks, of Boston telling Jenks that he would like to take in two summer boarders for two or three months, adding that they could take four or five if they were all from the same household.  Short note from a prominent Lexington MA citizen (see excerpt below).  Stamped folded letter is in excellent condition. Crease runs through stamp.

History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: History

By Charles Hudson, Lexington, Massachusetts Historical Society

Howland Holmes was born in Halifax, Massachusetts, January 16, 1815; died in his carriage at Arlington November 16, 1893; son of Howland and Huldah (Copeland). He married at Albany, New York, August 28, 1849, Sarah Maria Wellington Cotting, of Arlington, daughter of William. He was educated at Bridgewater and Phillips Exeter Academies, Harvard A.B. 1843, Harvard A.M. 1846, Harvard M.D. 1848, and L'Ecole de Medecine, Paris. He was a member of the First Church, Lexington, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Farmers' Club of Lexington, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. He was Justice of the Peace for twenty-five years, and member of the School Committee. He practised medicine for forty-two years, having settled in Lexington in 1851. His last residence was Massachusetts Avenue, corner of Waltham Street. Buried in Cemetery opposite Bloomfield Street.