CSA 7-R, 5¢ blue pair on local paper, used with Mossingford Va Feby 18th 1863 manuscript postmark on lovely green adversity cover fashioned from a list of Missionary Books; addressed to Rev. H.P.R. McCoy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. $250.

The Reverend H.P.R. McCoy (1830-1914) was a 19th-century Presbyterian minister who earned his Master of Arts at UVA. He received his theological education from the Union Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sydney. During the war, he served as a missionary chaplain.