BIB_ID
338450
Accession number
MA 38.4
Creator
Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Display Date
1772 Nov. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 31 cm
Notes
Endorsed on the verso, "Son James Burney appointed Lieutenant by the late Capt. Cook at the Cape of Good Hope 1772 - Copy of his Warrant by Capt. Cook appointing son James Lieutenant."
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.
The sloop "Adventure" was the sister ship to Captain Cook's ship, "Resolution."
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.
The sloop "Adventure" was the sister ship to Captain Cook's ship, "Resolution."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Being a copy of an order, written in an unknown hand, issued by Captain Cook to James Burney appointing him to Second Lieutenant "of his Majesty's Sloop, Adventure."
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