Scope and Contents Ledger with accounts of wages for the crew of the merchant ship Tarquin during its 1863 voyage from Marseilles to Sumatra, and contemporary handwritten copies of three letters written or addressed to Captain Thomas Hogh, dated, June 1864, Paris. The first two letters concern the appointment of George Gardner as supercargo of the French merchant ship Julie, with instructions for a voyage to Sumatra, where Gardner is to procure a cargo of pepper "on the best terms ... and without unnecessary...

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