Richard Dale A.L.S., Philadelphia, December 12, 1797 : to Dr. Charles Carter, Fredericks Burg, Va.

Richard Dale A.L.S., Philadelphia, December 12, 1797 : to Dr. Charles Carter, Fredericks Burg, Va.

Philadelphia 1797

[4] p. ; 25 cm.

MSS L1989.6.5 M MB

"I paid the money you left in my hands, and shall pay in two days more, twenty eight dollars. I have heard nothing of Mr. Lambert, you will make your self [sic] easy untill you come here."|Some discussion of "the China business": "There will several vessels go, the Woodrope Sims, which you know. I have said nothing to sims about you. I don't think she will do. Haight is a going. I have spooke [sic] to him about you. He has no objections. You know there is nothing like being on the spot."|"You will please to make my respects to my old friend and shipmate Doctor [Lawrence or Laurence?] Brooks."|"Dr. Lawrence Brooke was surgeon of the Bon Homme Richard, of which ship another Virginian, Richard Dale, was first lieutenant." -- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, VII, (1899), p. 289. Laurence Brooks" may also appear in records as "Lawrence Brook," "Lawrence Brooke," and "Laurence Brooke." -- Barbara Crookshanks. Local Doctor's House of Heroism.|After his discharge from the Continental Navy, Dale became part-owner of a merchant ship for the East Indies trade and by 1787 "was Captain of the Asia, the first Philadelphia ship built for the China trade." He did not, however, sail for China until 1795, when "he turned to the China trade in earnest." -- John Kilborne. Virtutis praemium (1998), vol. 1, p. 350|"In 1795 Carter secured a position as surgeon on a ship in the China trade." -- note published with Carter letter to George Washington, 2 June 1797.|Pages [2] and [3] are blank; p. [4] is addess leaf

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