Lot 46030 - 1847 (February 24th) – Irish Famine Relief: Entire from the Quaker citizens of Fairhaven and New Bedford, Massachusetts, concerning funds raised “for the relief of the destitute inhabitants of Ireland” during the Great F

1847 (February 24th) – Irish Famine Relief: Entire from the Quaker citizens of Fairhaven and New Bedford, Massachusetts, concerning funds raised “for the relief of the destitute inhabitants of Ireland” during the Great Famine. Signed by the prominent New Bedford Quaker merchant and philanthropist James Arnold, and carried across the Atlantic aboard the Cambria, with AMERICA/LIVERPOOL/MR.16.1847 backstamp and “1/-” handstruck ship-letter charge at Liverpool. Accompanied by Brown, Brothers & Co. proof of transfer for the remarkable sum of £753 2s 3d in relief funds. An exceptional and highly evocative pair of documents providing direct evidence of American Quaker humanitarian assistance to Ireland during Black ’47.