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JAMAICA

Postal history up to UPU membership
Packet mail

Letters to India

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This letter is from a well-known correspondence to Major Henry Kent who served in India with the 77 h (East
Middlesex) Regiment of Foot from 1859 to 1870. Henry Kent was born in the UK in 1825, the family moving to
Jamaica in 1834 where he later joined the Regiment in 1845 whilst it was posted there for three years. He took
over command of the Regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel on 13 h June 1868 whilst in India.
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Prior to the Universal Postal Union, letters from Jamaica to India were charged the current packet letter rate to
the UK plus the rate from there to India, minus one penny.

1865 Cover from Gordon Town to Bareilly, India

Provenance: ex Wood

A letter from Gordon Town carried by RMSP
Ruahine to St. Thomas and from there to Gordon Town: A42 numeral obliterators
Southampton by RMSP Atrato. It was carried Also PS double arc datestamp of 24 November 1865
to Alexandria by P&O packet, moved overland
Kingston: K10 single ring eds of 24November1865
to Suez and from there to Bombay by P&O.
London: Red paid eds of 14 December 1865
Franked at 1 s5d corresponding to the one
Bombay: Small red single ring eds of 28 January 1866
shilling UK packet letter rate plus the six
pence rate to India, minus one penny. Red Agra: Hexagonal datestamp of 31January1866
crayon "1/4" denoting the share to the Imperial Bareilly: Single ring eds of 2 February 1866 in red ink
Post Office and "1 " being 1 d due to Jamaica.