CSA 11, 10¢ blue (4 margins) tied CHARLESTON SC JUN 19 1864 double-circle datestamp on orange and tan wallpaper cover to Miss Julia McCord, Greenville, S.Ca. From the Henry Wemyss-Feilden-Julia McCord correspondence. Ex Kohn and Raysor. SCV $1,200. $950.

Henry Wemyss-Feilden was a young British veteran of the Indian Mutiny who ran the blockade in 1862 to join the Confederate cause. He was Captain and Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General of the Head Quarters, Department of So. Ca., Ga. and Flo. serving successively under Generals P. G. T. Beauregard, Samuel Jones, and William J. Hardee. He was in love with Julia McCord of Greenville. The story of the dashing British officer and the South Carolina beauty, who ultimately married in 1865, is told in one of my columns. Rudyard Kipling deemed Wemyss-Feilden as “the bravest man I ever knew.” They were great friends in Britain after the war.