Reference code
HU/3/29
Title
Ozias Humphry, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, to Mary Boydell, No.90 Cheapside
Date
10 May 1785
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
They made Cape Town in fourteen weeks, during which they saw not one vessel. This letter is sent via a Danish vessel, the Achilles, bound for Copenhagen. There are a large number Europeans at Cape Town. He promises to send a longer letter by the Hillsborough and Captain Hardcastle.