1859 QV GB cover LONDON to CALCUTTA franked with SG72 1/- green

Very nice example with less commonly seen printed VIA MARSEILLE cachet. Sent to LADY COLVILE aka Frances Elinor Colvile nee Grant husband of Sir James Colvile, chief advocate of the East India Company and later vice chancellor of Bombay University - a role he relinquished the day before this letter was sent.

Marriage between two imperial power families from Scotland. His Father Andrew Colvile was Governor of the Hudson Bay Company. Her father Peter Grant was lieutenant governor of Bengal and later Governor of Jamaica.

Bengali annotation on reverse to be deciphered.