CSA 12-AD, 10¢ bluish green (4 large to huge margins with light gum stains) used with manuscript cancel of “Macon, Va April 23rd” on clean TURNED COVER to Major Y. T. Randolph, Richmond, Va., with interesting boldly scripted “Free Negroes” at the top and docketing that contents are from W. E. Royall; inside use is CSA 11-AD, 10¢ blue (4 ample to large margins) used with manuscript cancel of “Belmead, Va. April 19, 64” and addressed to Mrs. Mary Susan Royall, Macon Post Office, Powhatan Co., Va. Two very nice uses with small town manuscript postmarks from towns in Powhatan County, Va. Ex Cox. $300.

Belmead is a historic home built in 1845 by (later) Confederate General Philip St. George Cocke, and, in 1897, conveyed to the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. It opened as St. Emma’s Industrial and Agricultural School for African American Children.