ADAMS RUN / S.C . / AUG / 12 PAID (no rate) to "Mrs. J.B. Grimball, Spartanburgh, So. Carolina", slightly reduced at top with top back flap missing, Very Fine, Ex Zimmerman

John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892), The Grimball family were prominent planters and owners of Pinebury and Grove plantations near Charleston, SC. Their well known correspondence is in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is well known to postal historians for the blockade covers.