For Melbourne, Australia from Battery Wharf, the fast sailing, first class British ship “Veritas”, only 632 tons register … Boston, Nov. 25, 1865

Thomas Carrey, Commander. Will receive prompt despatch for Melbourne, direct. For freight or passage, apply to Samuel Stevens & Co., 209 State Street, or Neal & Crowninshield, 6 Central Street. Agents in Melbourne, Messrs. Newell & Co., Commission merchants. Boston, Massachusetts : Fred Rogers, Steam Job Printer, 1865. Clipper card, 165 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in carmine, azure, and gold on white enamel card; at the head is a vignette illustration with the Samuel Stevens & Co. Australian Line house flag, flanked by the United States and Australian coats of arms; fine condition.

Scarce and attractive clipper card advertising a sailing of the Veritas, an Australian Line ship, from Boston to Melbourne in November 1865. She arrived in Hobson’s Bay, Melbourne on 16 April 1865 (The Age, 17 April 1865) – just seven days after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox:

‘Veritas, ship, 632 tons, Thomas Carrey, from Boston, U.S., 17th January. No passengers. Newell and Co., agents.’