Montagu Burgoyne, James Kirke, and Jonas Hanway A.L.S., Victualling Office, 23 Novem. 1781 : to Commodore Sir Richard Bickerton Bar.t, [S.l.]

Montagu Burgoyne, James Kirke, and Jonas Hanway A.L.S., Victualling Office, 23 Novem. 1781 : to Commodore Sir Richard Bickerton Bar.t, [S.l.]

[London?] 1781

[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1992.1.479

"We received your letter of this date, and ... have ordered your proportion of tongues to be sent from hence to Portsmouth ...."|"We shall be much obliged to you if you will order a state of the quantity and quality of the provisions in store in the East Indies to be sent to us as soon after your arrival as possible."|For a list of the commissioners of the Victually Office, see Wikepedia entry for "Victuallying Commissioners"|Commodore Bickerton sailed from England on 6 February 1782 in command of a squadron escorting a convoy to India, possibly the area targetted for the requested supplies. John Burgoyne,|Pages [2[ - [4] are blank. Watermark: J P above a rampant lion, both within an oval circle, crowned. Apparently not in Gravell. -- see also in this collection MSS L1992.1.524.

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