Letter from a Scottish lawyer requesting information from a ship captain in Baltimore about an ill-fated Indian Ocean voyage aboard the Semaramis that included accusations of drunkenness, incompetence, theft, and mutiny
Greencock, [Scotland]: 1849. Unbound. Four-page letter. In nice shape with mailing folds and minor soiling. Transcript included. In this letter, a ship captain’s attorney, Jonathon Macdougall, requests information from his client, Captain James Welsh, in order to pursue a legal action in Scotland against a ship owner named Cairnie. It..... More