U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 18-19, 2014

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Lot #692
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA
1867 single correspondence from a missionary Battala gundu to the Madura Mission (which embraced besides Madura, with its 70,000 population, Dindigal, Mandapasalai, Battala gundu, and other places, in all 12 stations, with 234 out stations, 36 churches, 3,233 church members, 11,881 adherents, 10 missionaries, 20 native pastors, 299 native workers of all classes, 138 common schools, with 3,215 pupils), four covers with original letters, each franked with 1/2 annas, also 1/2a stationery lettersheet, interesting markings on back include "Palana Malay" and Kodicalal transits, fine group of early missionary letters from India
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