cover -- 1809 (29 July) entire letter from Guiseppe Tonon at Wantage (a surgeon taken prisoner on the French sloop "Roneo" ) to Peitro Pesaro (one time Venetian Ambassador to Rome) in London, the address panel with good to fine light strike of the black oval "TRANSPORT OFFICE/(crown)/G.R/PRISONERS OF WAR" overstruck by fine black "3" and showing faint red London Twopenny Post unpaid "Bge. St. West." at lower-left, also a letter insert in French dated 14 August 1809 from Pietro Pesaro to Sir Rupert George appealing for Tonon's release; fine. Photo for the entire letter
cover -- 1809 (29 July) entire letter from Guiseppe Tonon at Wantage (a surgeon taken prisoner on the French sloop "Roneo" ) to Peitro Pesaro (one time Venetian Ambassador to Rome) in London, the address panel with good to fine light strike of the black oval "TRANSPORT OFFICE/(crown)/G.R/PRISONERS OF WAR" overstruck by fine black "3" and showing faint red London Twopenny Post unpaid "Bge. St. West." at lower-left, also a letter insert in French dated 14 August 1809 from Pietro Pesaro to Sir Rupert George appealing for Tonon's release; fine. Photo for the entire letter
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