Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
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The circular date stamp indicates the letter was forwarded on 31 October 1837 from the Pensacola post office. The rate for a single letter (one sheet of paper) traveling more than 400 miles was 25 cents. This is a double rate letter (2 x 25 cents) indicating that there was one enclosure. The absence of the word \"Paid\" indicates that the letter was sent unpaid and 50 cents was collected from the addressee."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Because David Shelton Edwards thought he would be out to sea he had instructed his wife Harriet not to write to him at his Pensacola, Florida station anymore. It is an instruction he expresses regret for in this letter as he has not heard from her in a long time and it now appears that they will stay in Pensacola for the winter. All but three ships in the West Indies Squadron are out to sea and he gives news of the officers on them and at the Yard."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "This letter is part of the correspondence of David Shelton Edwards between the years 1835 and 1848. The 48 letters from this period held by the National Postal Museum are primarily addressed to Edward's wife Harriet; in 1830, Edwards married Harriet Eliza Henry and they had two children, William and Harriet. They kept up a frequent correspondence when his naval carrier kept them separated. Between 1835 and 1848 Edwards served as a Surgeon at the hospital in the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida; Fleet Surgeon to the West Indies Squadron; and Surgeon aboard many vessels engaged in the Mexican-American War. His naval carrier spanned from 1818 to 1861 and his last sea cruise ended in October of 1859 after which he retired to his family home in Connecticut except for a brief time spent at New Bedford, Massachusetts recruiting for the Union Navy during the Civil War. He died in Trumbull, Connecticut on March 18, 1874."}], "name": [{"label": "Writer", "content": "David Shelton Edwards, American, died 1874"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "American Expansion (1800-1860)"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Covers & Letters"}], "place": [{"label": "Place of Origin", "content": "Florida"}, {"label": "Place of Destination", "content": "New York"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "paper; ink / handwritten"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Postal Museum"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Covers & Associated Letters"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npm_1978.0652.25", "hash": "e64771e592e3e1f78001c780b454854ff731c917", "docSignature": "729161458b2a240ce9698eb232e4f020", "timestamp": 1663786505, "lastTimeUpdated": 1657961588, "title": "Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards"}