- £225.00
Spanish Colonies, (Fernando Po - Great Britain). 1874. Folded letter written from "A & M Herschell/ Liverpool" with oval firms chop and endorsed 'Paid' on face, addressed to 'John Holt Esq,' Fernando Po, West Coast Africa' bearing Great Britain SG 143, 3d rose plate 12 (pair) tied by Liverpool/ 466 duplex dated '7th Feb 74', endorsed 'pr "Monrovia".
The Royal Mail Steamer "Monrovia" was part of the 'African Steamship Company' , she sailed from Liverpool on Saturday 7th February at 2pm for Madeira, Tenerife, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Cape Palmas, Cape Coast Castle, Accra, Jellah Coffee, Lagos, Benin, Bonny and Fernando Po.
John Holt left Liverpool in June 1862 accepting the post as secretary to James Lynslager, British Consul on the Spanish Island of Fernando Po. John Holt spent 12 years on the African coast. The papers of John Holt can be found in the National Maritime Museum, Liverpool.
