“Mount Pleasant Va Paid 5 June 11 (1861)” manuscript postmark on tiny mourning cover with black embossed wafer closure and flap tip embossing, fully intact flaps to Lieut. R.L. Maury, Lexington, Virginia. Not opened at an end, as was typical for this correspondence. Sequential Roman numeral XXIII (23) at top and included in the Paul Bearer census of the Maury Mourning Covers. Matching 3-page letter on black-edged stationery from his girlfriend who later became later wife (1862). Click here to see the census, survey and history of Maury, son of Navy Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. Click here to see letter pages 2-3. The Paul Bearer mourning cover exhibit is also available on the Exhibits page on this site. Ex Renate Thayer. $400.