The entire below dated August 1796 was sent from Salcombe (according to the address inside, close to Kingsbridge which was its post town) to Edinburgh with a horseshoe "KINGSBRIDGE" handstamp.
The contents are a letter explaining the costs of carpentry to repair the brig Edinburgh, including getting insurance "of Four hundred pounds by Jame Work at New Loyd Coffee House Broker London".The letter below was sent in April 1834, with contents relating to the tithes of the parish of Churchstow, two miles north-west of Kingsbridge.

