At first glance the six cent rate seems to indicate business documents. However, with knowledge of the first wrapper it looks as if Mr. Henry Thomas may have been receiving newspapers regularly from St. Thomas. This is about 17 pages of newsprint, not unreasonable for the size of the wrapper, but pretty large for the St. Thomas Tidende . There is no way to know for sure, but one could guess that the handwriting on the six cent cover looks like that of a younger person and therefore more likely to be business related. In any event, it would be interesting to hear if any members have seen other examples of business or newspaper rates in this period.
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Apologies to anyone not mentioned, these are all the awards we are aware of since the last issue. Their card catalog and a great deal of historical information is accessible. They have an almost complete set of the St. Thomas Tidende from 1844 to 1917 and copies are available on microfilm. Contact the editor regarding loan or search. The most likely explanation seems to be that a return address was written on the front of the card, technically against postal regulations, and a picky postal clerk judged it to be letter mail.