FREDERICKSBURG 5 VA PAID (integral postmark) AUG 12 with manuscript revalued “10” on small mourning cover to Lieut. R.L. Maury, Charleston, South Carolina from his wife, and Chg. Box 41 W.T.H. (likely William T. Herndon, close relative of Ann Maury). No customary sequential Roman numeral but included in the Paul Bearer census of the Maury Mourning Covers in chronological order. Click here to see the census, survey and history of Maury, son of Navy Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury.The Paul Bearer mourning cover exhibit is also available on the Exhibits page on this site. This cover pictured in Mourning Covers: The Cultural and Postal History of Letters Edged in Black by Ernest A. Mosher, page 246. Reduced at right on opening, customary for this correspondence. Ex Renate Thayer. $300.