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A rare envelope from the 1860s, the only one ever sent to Vermont via the fabled Pony Express, is going up for auction this month.

A rare piece of American history with ties to Vermont hit the auction block later this month. As our Elissa Borden reports, it's the only pony express envelope ever sent to Vermont.

--- Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freeman’s 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks. “Look,” he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. “Look how skinny she is.” --- Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes seal...