Autograph letter signed, to Charles Thomas Coggan, asking for the release of a press-ganged sailor

by James Cook

$425,000 · Offered by Hordern House

HMS Resolution at Deptford, 9 March 1772. Autograph manuscript in ink on paper, on one side of a single sheet, small folio, amounting to about 12 lines, with a fine signature by Cook; docket-title on verso in a different hand. An extraordinary Cook letter, entirely in his hand

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