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Bryant's 1881 postal card article
Bryant
thanks for your recent article in the LPS about the 1881 postal card.
To add to your list of postally used but not cancelled by the Liberian PO I have a card to Koln/Cologne. According to the message on the back it's dated Grand Bassa 14 October 1884. There's a Liverpool cancel for 2 November 1884 and a Cologne cancel for 14 November 1884.
It's addressed to someone at the Kolnische Newspaper
The message at the back mentions the President of Liberia (Hilary Johnson) but if anyone can translate I'd love to know the rest!
thanks for your recent article in the LPS about the 1881 postal card.
To add to your list of postally used but not cancelled by the Liberian PO I have a card to Koln/Cologne. According to the message on the back it's dated Grand Bassa 14 October 1884. There's a Liverpool cancel for 2 November 1884 and a Cologne cancel for 14 November 1884.
It's addressed to someone at the Kolnische Newspaper
The message at the back mentions the President of Liberia (Hilary Johnson) but if anyone can translate I'd love to know the rest!
Comments
This postcard is for your stamp album. This morning we arrived here from Monrovia, where I was on land for 3 days. The President of the Republic learned about my (upcoming) articles about Liberia / send him any copies you want, and the Woermann company in Monrovia would be very pleased to receive further copies.
Kind regards
Wonder what the articles were? Presumably written for the Kolnischer Zeitung
The Zeitung has been digitised and can be searched
https://zeitpunkt.nrw/ulbbn/periodical/search/9715711?query=Liberia&offset=361
Found a few articles (all in ornate German) for 1884 and 1885 from "our special correspondent"
No name given but location shows as Grand Bassa and Monrovia
The articles cover several page columns so are in depth and must have been of interested to the readership (the Zeitung was one of the main newspapers of its day)
Each article appears to cover several different topics eg October 1884 from Grand Bassa
Black cabin passengers. - A flirtatious mulatto woman -
-The helpers of the European merchant. - Low German speaking Kru-Negroes -
- The uprising in Grand Bassa. - The Liberian Army on Woermann's steamer. - Sinoe and Cape Palmas.