New Orleans to Le Havre, France, July 1861, blue folded letter datelined"New Orleans 8 July, 1861", France 20¢ Blue, tied by diamond grid cancel, blue "FORWARDED BY J. BARBE, HAVRE" octagonal handstamp, Paris datestamp, Le Havre receiving 7 Aug ’61 backstamp; letter  to H. F. McKenna Esq, Care J. Barbe Esq, Havre France from W. Bogart which relates to business and states "we are in hourly expectation of hearing of hard fighting in Virginia", file fold and minor edge nick, Very Fine, probably sent inside an across-the-lines express cover to the North and then sent outside the mails to Le Havre. Docketing on verso “Chas Lagory Hotel Byron, Rue Laffatte, Paris 21 Aug 61. Extremely clean and showy. [LA] $450.