Letter from Richard Hughes to the Court of Directors. Awaits appointment and instructions as packet agent in Cairo. Dated Cairo, 15 March 1781. Received 12 June 1781. Read in Court, 13 June 1781
Duplicate letter from Richard Hughes to the Court of Directors. Awaits appointment and instructions as packet agent in Cairo. Dated Cairo, 15 March 1781. Received 20 August 1781. Read in Court
Letter from Richard Hughes to Peter Michell, Secretary to the Company. Reports on movements of Europeans travelling through Egypt. States that there is an outbreak of plague in Cairo and Alexandria. Dated Cairo, 29 April 1781. Received 20 August 1781. Read in Court
Duplicate letter from Richard Hughes to the Court of Directors. Still suspicious of the 'Germans' named George Fornbauer and Frederick Van Saver, a military captain. Dated Cairo, 18 May 1781. Received 20 August 1781. Read in Court
Duplicate letter from Richard Hughes to Peter Michell, Secretary of the Company. Previous letters have been held back due to the lack of sailing opportunities for Europe. Risk of plague receded - Egypt will be out of confinement soon. Received 20 August 1781. Read in Court
Letter from Anthony Hayes to Peter Michell, Secretary of the Company. Forwards packet of letters from Richard Hughes. Dated Smyrna, 3 July 1781. Received 25 August 1781. Read in Court
Duplicate letter from Richard Hughes to the Court of Directors. 'Germans' were Germans, but in the pay of the Dutch Company. Anxious that Company has not yet determined an agent at Cairo and request that the Company make good his expenses incurred under the misapprehension of being the Company's ...
Letter from Richard Hughes to Peter Michell, Secretary of the Company. Resents loss of two years waiting for Company's decision. Asks for compensation. Dated Cairo, 7 September 1781. Read in Court.
Letter from John Coore to Peter Michell, Secretary of the Company. Requests payment of monies due to George Baldwin. Dated 16 January 1782. Read in Court.