Dispute with local merchants over tea supply to Cape; supplies for St Helena; advances to Lt W B S Blenkins, Bombay Native Inf and Ens R Hay, Bengal Native Inf
Draft of letter from the Company to George Baldwin. Requests that Baldwin gives any necessary help to John Whitehill, accompanied by John Baynton, who is travelling from Cairo to Suez and intends to embark on the Terrible Bomb. Dated London
Letter from Richard Willis to Sir George Wombwell. Reports on the rate of exchange for the Turkish Dollar. Dated 16 September 1778. Laid before Committee of Correspondence
Draft paper entitled 'Relative to the plan for conveying the Honourable East India Company's Dispatches to and from the East Indies by the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea'. Marked 'Mr Dundas'.