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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'.

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Admiral Sir John Corbett (1822-1893), KCB, RN, from 1875 Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria
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Without date or place.
£45.00

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'.

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Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'John Corbett') from Admiral Sir John Corbett, Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, to 'Miss Bruce', daughter of 'the Commodore' [ Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce].

Author: 
Admiral Sir John Corbett (1822-1893), KCB, RN, from 1875 Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria [Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce (1792-1863)]
Publication details: 
The first without place and date; the second from 'Hotel V<?>', 29 January [no year].
£95.00

One: 3pp., 16mo. 42 lines. Fair, on aged paper.

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