COPY LETTER BOOK OF H.C.S. NEPTUNE
a West Indiaman bought and adapted for the use of the East India Company, 47 and 33pp., 1811-12, folio, P.1, delivering a box to the President at Canton; P.4, letter respecting opium; P.5, an order of no clocks or pieces of mechanism exceeding £100 be exported to China; P.6, water not to be taken on Penang as it causes dysentery; P.6, about the risk of sending a boat on shore at Macau; P.8, ordering to receive on board Mrs Anne Torin on her journey to her husband in Bombay accompanied by her black servant Clara Theresa and also Miss Julia Brown; P.13, concerning a charter-party of passengers on board for China; P.23, prices for hemp lines and twine; P.35 and P.46, instructions for putting convicts on shore at Penang; P.45, receipt for packets at Prince of Wales's Island [Penang]; P.47, prohibiting the lading of syce silver in China or officers going ashore; reverse ms. P.6, describing a present to the King of Johanna [Anjouan] and the kindness of that kingdom's inhabitants; P.32, describing the arrival of the fleet at China; and numerous other letters, mostly to the Neptune describing cargo (and its faults), convicts, stores, tin plates and many other subjects

Condition Report
Good overall condition commensurate with age.

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