| Description | Describing his service off the coast of Argentina, Newfoundland, France and Spain with periods at Pymouth and Portsmouth. c120 letters all except four years to 1810. letter of 10 Oct 1808 refes to a seal skin canoe that he has and two geese which he suggests might 'ornament the Avon at Longford'. 7 Jan 1809 describes a visit to the church at Christchurch, Hampshire, and its restoration under the rev Bingley. Copies of his report about placing a gun above the town of Getaria, Sapin, but retreating from a superior force of French soldiers, and bulletin following the battle of Salamanca, 1812. letter 1799 and two undated.
Typescript transcripts of six letters and a biographical note of his naval career. |