CSA 12-KB, 10¢ deep blue (4 huge balanced margins, tiny surface scrape) tied bold clear CHARLESTON / S.C. // AUG / 23 / 186_ cds on small adversity cover made from a court document, addressed to Miss Harriott Middleton, Care of J. J. P. Smith Esq., Columbia, S.C. A Charmer. $200.

Harriott Middleton: The Middleton correspondence is well known by Confederate students and the family papers are in the SC Historical Society. Harriott (1828-1905) was the daughter of Henry A. Middleton, a wealthy planting family.