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Title
Letter to [Thomas Towns-hend] Lord Sydney
Names
Great Britain. Admiralty, Board of (Author)
Towns-hend, Thomas, Lord Sydney (Addressee)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection

The Signers to the Declaration of Independence

New Hampshire

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1788-05-02
Place: Great Britain.—Admiralty, Board of
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: L. S., R. Howe, Cha. Brett, J. Leveson Gower. 2 pp. Fo
Description
Transmitting to him, for His Majesty's information, a copy of a letter dated at Leghorn, April 14, from Commodore Cosby, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, acquainting them that in consequence of news from James M. Matra, British Consul-General at Morocco, of the hostile disposition of the Emperor, he was about to proceed to Gibraltar for the security of His Majesty's trade, calling first at Naples to collect a state of the trade there; they also inclose a transcript of the circular letter to the several Consuls in the Mediterranean, referred to in the former.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 2026
Archives EAD ID: 275818
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e10e6260-6a40-0139-fca1-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1788: Created
  • 2025: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to [Thomas Towns-hend] Lord Sydney" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1788. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bac0a75c-2524-b981-e040-e00a18067fd9

Chicago/Turabian Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to [Thomas Towns-hend] Lord Sydney" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 9, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bac0a75c-2524-b981-e040-e00a18067fd9

APA Format

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1788). Letter to [Thomas Towns-hend] Lord Sydney Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bac0a75c-2524-b981-e040-e00a18067fd9

Wikipedia Citation

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Letter to [Thomas Towns-hend] Lord Sydney