CSA 1, 5¢ green (4 margins) tied neat LYNCHBURG / Va. // JAN / 16 (1862) CDS on small commercially-made envelope to Judge Moncure, Powhatan House, Richmond, Va. Photo of Powhatan House (by then renamed Ford’s Hotel) accompanies. The building was demolished in 1911 for a new courthouse that was never built; small flap faults. SCV $3100. $180.

Richard Cassius Lee Moncure (1805 – 1882) was a Virginia politician and jurist, serving for more than 25 years on what became the Virginia Supreme Court.