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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C A1 E5/10
TitleLetter from Butscher to Pratt: 12 July 1815: Sierra Leone
Extent1 doc.
Date1815
DescriptionHe and Renner have visited Leic. Mt. and he now requests tools for the project. He encloses 2 bills (£135 and £39) and intended to send the whole balance due the Society from him but was prevented.
He expects the Society's vessel, 'The William Wilberforce', at S. L. soon. Governor MacCarthy has not yet arrived from Goree. Sutherland, the schoolmaster, is returning to England after 4 months in S.L. where he has poorly attended to his duties.
Butscher's daughter, Mary, is well but his son is very ill. 2 of his boys, Stephen Goode and John Maxwell, are to be put to a tailor.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionE5-8: The numbers are all original numbers with minor amendments.

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