CSA 4, 5¢ blue bottom sheet margin single with exceptional margins all around, tied RICHMOND Va. circular datestamp on fresh commercially made envelope to Hon. R.C.L. Moncure near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Content docketing up left side, small repaired cover nick at top left. Penciled note by Van Dyk MacBride on verso in which he declared the stamp a superb copy with remarkable margins (I agree!). Ex Boschung. $400.

Richard Cassius Lee Moncure (1805-1882) was a Virginia politician and jurist. He was born at the family estate of Clermont in Stafford County, Va. After his admission to the bar in 1825, Moncure practiced in Fredericksburg and surrounding counties. In 1849, he entered politics and won election to the legislature, which was then engaged in extensive revision of the state's legal code. Moncure owned 14 slaves per the 1860 census. Judge R. C. L. Moncure married Mary Butler Washington Conway 29 DEC 1825. They were the parents of 13 children. He was for years president of the Virginia State Court of Appeals. He resided at Glencairne in Stafford County, the ancestral home of the Chichester family, Judge Moncure bought the farm in 1825.