Last part of Autograph Letter Signed ('John Corbett') from Admiral Sir John Corbett, Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, written as a young man to an unnamed recipient, declaring his impatience to return to sea: 'Shore is a stupid place I think'.

2pp., 12mo. 31 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Begins abruptly: '<...> rather wait a little & get it without its having made a great favour.' He declares that he is 'perfectly ready however to go to sea tomorrow & have no wish to remain on shore, the reverse in fact, I would rather be afloat if I could choose - Shore is a stupid place I think - perhaps as soon as I leave it I shall commence to think otherwise'. References to 'sharpish weather' and dinner 'with the Chads' follow. He has been 'living rather a la Hermit'. He will 'wish Anglesea far enough I expect before many weeks are over in spite of the young ladies - its too far'. He concludes: 'The Duke of W. is a splendid looking ship - No Naval news Don't catch cold bathing'.