April 12, 2024
3 New Castle DELAWARE letters stampless CONGRESSMAN RODNEY, CORBIT
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Here's a set of three stampless letters, all with postal markings of NEW CASTLE Del.; the circular date stamps range from very faint to faint to okay. They are addressed to Daniel Corbit, Esq. One has a dateline of New Castle, June 20 1849. One paragraph of writing by G B Rodney. Another has a dateline of New Castle Sept 2, 1852. A page of writing with some more on the next page, by G B Rodney. Those two are folded letters. The last one is a stampless envelope with an enclosure of about a half a page of writing by G B Rodney, datelined New Castle Sept 11, 1840. There's also another loose letter datelined New Castle, July 21, 1849, signed G B Rodney. No envelope. From his Congressional biography: "RODNEY, George Brydges, (cousin of Caesar Rodney, Caesar Augustus Rodney, and Thomas Rodney), a Representative from Delaware; born in Lewes, Del., April 2, 1803; received a liberal education and was graduated from Princeton College in 1820; register in chancery and clerk of the orphans’ court of Sussex County 1826-1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and engaged in practice in New Castle; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); resumed the practice of law; delegate to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to prevent the impending
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