BIB_ID
107295
Accession number
MA 38.17
Creator
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.
Display Date
1782 Aug. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 23.7 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Capt. Burney / of Her Maj. Ship / Bristol / Portsmouth."
Burney was appointed captain of the "Bristol" in June 1782 and led twelve ships to Madras for the East India Company.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written from 72 Titchfield Street, London.
Burney was appointed captain of the "Bristol" in June 1782 and led twelve ships to Madras for the East India Company.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written from 72 Titchfield Street, London.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Sending sketches of ports along the coast of Brazil and sketches of the coast of Choromandel near the Armagon [shoal]; warning of the dangers of the shoal; sending a packet of letters that he wishes him to carry to India; wishing him a "prosperous voyage."
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