Letter of C. Douglas Smith to W. Sidney Smith, Military Hospital Deal

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4 pp. in-quarto; handwritten; signed: C. Douglas Smith, remnants of sealing-wax.;Letter of Douglas Smith, handwritten in english, dated 6.3.1800 to his brother W. Sidney Smith, captain of the Tigre. Not having received any acknowledgement and not knowing whether any of the packets and newspapers sent monthly, have reached its destination Douglas makes some assumptions that post is being intercepted (maybe at Bonaparte instance, to obtain intelligence). He continues to write to his brother on family and common acquaintances tidings, and reports on news he reads in newspapers.