HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker. 12851

£100

Description

Envelope Front only, signed ‘Edmund Head’ lower left, addressed to Sir George Lewis at the Home Office in London. 2 x 4 inches, irregularly trimmed, in clean condition, laid down. 6d. Stg. Paid marking. Postmarked Quebec 25 April 1861, London arrival cds. Sir Edmund Walker Head (1805-1868) was simultaneously Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1854-1861) and formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1847-1854).