Here is a RRB cover with letter sheet dated "March 27th / 1856" from Francis Painter, the wife of a newly appointed employee of the Cleveland & Toledo R.R. living in Elyria to her Husband, John Vickers Painter, probably being trained at the head office in Cleveland. Carried outside the government postal; service the 26 miles east to Cleveland receiving the railroads CDS (Towle SP-2) "Cleveland & Toledo R.R.".
This is an example of the illegal use of railroad business mail which could only travel on the companies lines without postage if related to railroad business.
