1851-57 Providence Control Mark

We do know that Evelina's family donated the land for the RI School of Design. She was the inspiration for that school. They were very much involved with Brown!

From Hoxie454 on the "Hunt " thread.

"As a lifelong resident and student of Rhode Island history, I am very familiar with the addresses on much of the mail. They are all within the shadow of Brown University. Benefit St. was the first street laid out by the town 'for the benefit of ye People' around the time of the Revolution, and 49 Benefit is still a owner occupied home--a huge wood frame Colonial dating to before 1800. If I owned that house, I would be happy to own a letter which had been mailed to that house a hundred fifty years ago! Just the steep up hill walk two blocks, 45 and 62 Prospect are multi-million dollar 19th century brick mansions set diagonally opposite each other one owned by Brown U. and one by R. I. School of Design. All three houses bear plaques as National Historic Register properties.

These few blocks of land between Brown and RISD and Nprth Main Street, Providence are one of the most historic areas of Colonial America. When you walk there, it just oozes out of the walls and sidewalks and trees and envelopes you. So, I do know that there was an Eveline or Evelina Metcalf who married a George Hunt. She was a daughter of an early Jesse Metcalf. We know that the Metcalf family owned the Providence Journal Company and also a string of textile mills. This century saw a Jesse Metcalf as U.S. Senator. Your great great grandmother may have been a member of one of the most prestigious families in America."

Edit; Hoxie454 mis spoke in the last quoted sentence.
It was not my family that was so prestigious. It was the Metcalfs.

The cover that I posted in this thread with the Providence RI Control Mark will be offered by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries,
in their United States and CSA Postal History sale # 1191, October 25th, 2018. lot # 2383. In this lot they included several interesting covers from the Metcalf/Hunt Correspondence.

Edit; I have communicated with Charles DiComo Phd. regarding this sale.

Also a cover with letter both on mourning stationary, President James A.Garfield's widow Lucretia R. Garfield, on March 7th, 1882, after her husband the Presedant was assassinated, wrote this letter to my great, great, grandfather Levi L. Burdon. This cover contaians a letter of thanks to the " Fifth Rhode Island and Battery Veterans Association" for a tribute plaque that the Association had sent.
The cover and letter can be viewed best on this thread. My post 2/12/16 on this thread https://goscf.com/t/21923&whichpage=2

Good luck!!