GB 1863 Cover to Director of Harvard College Observatory

Stock Code: P190017258

1863 Missent Transatlantic mail. Very fine envelope sent from Paris and addressed to George Phillips Bond, Director of Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, (America). Bearing a Paris cds at top left for AP.17.1863. and Cambridge transit marks for AP.18-19.1863. as it was missent to Cambridge (England) it was endorsed in manuscript "America" at foot, charged "8d" and struck with a boxed "FIRST POSTAGE NOT-PAID" handstamp and re-sent back to Paris with corresponding datestamps on reverse for AP.20.1863. Finally arriving in New York on MY.4.1863. with a "30" Cents unpaid charge handstamp.

George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825 – February 17, 1865) was an American astronomer, He succeeded his father as director of Harvard College Observatory from 1859 until his death in 1865 He and his father jointly discovered Saturn's moon, Hyperion.

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