5 Older Covers - Looking For More Information

I will put up five older covers that I have some information about. The information typed on the sheets is the way they came to me when bought, so if it is wrong, please let me know. Some of you are always able to see something I missed or did not know about so aside from showing you the covers because I thought you might like to see them, I was wondering if you could add anything. Thanks as always - Jeff







Nice blue cancel

I'm curious about the next to the last cover from "V. Farwell & Co.". I wonder if it is "J.V. Farwell & Co." which had an illustrious history in old Chicago. Looked up a similar envelope corner from the internet which appears to be the same same envelope imprint, except this one shows "J.V." instead of just "V.":

No help from the back wt1 but the typeface looks the same and Chicago is right, so I am guessing same company. - Jeff

more here

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/...ticles/ffa14

If indeed it is the same company, then you should find this article quite relevant:

http://www.rfrajola.com/mercury/farwell.pdf

If my memory serves me right, William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame married a Julia Hancock, might be worth researching.

This is a page from an 1878 medical journal. Looks like the cover you have posted as addressed to a Col. W.L. Mitchell of Athens, Georgia is the named trustee conferring M.D. degrees at the Atlanta Medical College that year:

http://books.google.com/books?id=24...ge&q&f=false