Autograph Letter Signed from Liverpool merchant Tyndall Bright to 'Mrs Alexander', wife of Captain John R. Alexander, Royal Navy, daughter of Henry Bruce, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, making suggestions regarding a voyage to Central America.
Author:
Tyndall Bright, nineteenth-century Liverpool merchant with extensive business interests in Australia [director of the Anglo-Australian Steam Navigation Company]
Publication details:
Undated ('Sunday afterno[o]n.') and with place not stated.
£56.00
SKU: 10364
12mo, 3 pp. In bifolium. Forty lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He cannot get her 'a good berth in the middle of he ship', but he recommends that she take a 'good side one near the Ladies Saloon which is aft'. He draws a diagram of the position of this berth, which is 'under offer' to her. He gives the number and price to Colon, Panama, and on to Valparaiso, Chile. He has written her letters of introduction, and offers his further services.