British Royal Navy officer (1790-1885). Autograph letter signed. ("G. R. Sartorius"). No place. 8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium.
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To John Morris of the Bombay civil service and director of the East India Company: "What nonsense have you been talking about in your Note, 'of making a return to your presidency, of similar letters of Introduction to the enclosed which I forward for our young Mid, if I should require them.' I shall give you a blowing up for this when we meet. No name, amongst a long list of Friends & acquaintances, can excite kindlier feelings & associations than that of Morris, in my memory. I shall mention James again in my letter to Smith [i.
e. Sir Sidney Smith, 1764-1840]. He must tomorrow go on board of the Senior Officer's Ship (it is quite sure there will be 'one' certainly there, under present circumstances) & there be initiated in the Mysteries of the Trader. There will be no difficulty then to get leave from the Commandery Office to visit his Friends. Tell him to deliver the letters personally. Our best wishes to you all [...]". - John Carnac Morris (1798-1858), son of the recipient, served in the Royal Navy as a midshipman during the last two years of the Napoleonic Wars, and afterwards he too entered the civil service of the East India Company. George Sartorius was present at the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte, and on the conclusion of the war in 1815 John Morris senior sent a note to his son's captain Sartorius: "Your trade is up for the next half-century. Send my son John home by the next coach" (DNB 39, 100). - With slight browning to the upper margin..