Autograph letter signed, to his father

by Newton Fowell

$165,000 · Offered by Hordern House

HMS Sirius, Portsmouth, 10 May 1787. Quarto, three pages and address leaf, manuscript in ink on paper, with original wax seal, two filing holes in lower margin of each leaf; stamped Gosport , small collector's stamp with manuscript cancellation. Written from the Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet

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