[Received, per Telegraph.] / Mobile, April 16, 1859. / Mobile and New Orleans Classification. / The Quotations of our Market To-Day are for / Mid. Fair Cotton, 13 ½. Market Quiet. / Good Mid. do 12 7/8 Week’s Rec’ts, 8,000 Bales. / [followed by 5 more lines of quotes and activity statements].
Boston: Dexter & Abbot, 1859. Handbill, 8 x 5 inches, printed in several typefaces in small sizes; with integral leaf, addressed and postmarked. Business report from Dexter & Abbot's Mobile office, transmitted by telegraph to Boston and printed there; a picture of the cotton market shortly before the Civil War. Folded for mailing, but very good. Item #70288
Price: $150.00