Letter
1998/6996
1800-1850 / Document / Letter / Ministers, Preachers & Associates / Paper / World Parish
Paper; ink
Thomas Coke to Robert Carr Brackenbury Esq, Raithby-Hall, near Bolingbrooke, Lincolnshire, 7th February 1808
Envelope page and first page of a letter from Thomas Coke to Robert Carr Brackenburty acknowledging subscription for two sets of (Coke's) History of the West Indies, £20 for missions and relating intelligence regarding maltreatment of missionaries in Jamaica, as well as the deaths of a Mr and Mrs Firth.
There is also an interesting comment, "Awful times, very awful times, You may depend upon it,..., are at hand: and we, as a nation, have cause to tremble". This may refer to the ever growing threat of invasion from Napoleon and the French around this time.
Thomas Coke to Robert Carr Brackenbury Esq, Raithby-Hall, near Bolingbrooke, Lincolnshire, 7th February 1808
Envelope page and first page of a letter from Thomas Coke to Robert Carr Brackenburty acknowledging subscription for two sets of (Coke's) History of the West Indies, £20 for missions and relating intelligence regarding maltreatment of missionaries in Jamaica, as well as the deaths of a Mr and Mrs Firth.
There is also an interesting comment, "Awful times, very awful times, You may depend upon it,..., are at hand: and we, as a nation, have cause to tremble". This may refer to the ever growing threat of invasion from Napoleon and the French around this time.
