One-page autograph letter signed to James Beatty, Navy Agent, in Baltimore

by Charles Gordon, U. S N., Captain

$600 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Norfolk: 4 December, 1814. 4to, integral address leaf with docket attached; previous folds, very good. I have this moment learnt that Mr. Archer, Purser of the Flotilla has left this place for Baltimore to procure cloathing for the men of the Flotilla. He has gone without my permission and will be arrested. He has not my authority to procure it. And as the few men attached to the Flotilla can be furnished here, no engagement of his so far as it relates to

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