Unpublished letter, from W H [William Henry] Smyth to P M [Peter Mark] Roget
Reference number: AP/18/5e
Date: 19 April 1834
Description
Smyth offers support for de Roos's account of the recovery of stores and treasure from the wreck of HMS Thetis, suggesting that, were it to be published, the details would be 'of great interest to mariners and engineers'. He compares de Roos's account with Thomas Dickinson's.
Written by Smyth at Crescent, Bedford [England].
- Reference number
- AP/18/5e
- Earliest possible date
- 19 April 1834
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished letter, from W H [William Henry] Smyth to P M [Peter Mark] Roget, 19 April 1834, AP/18/5e, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_18_5e/unpublished-letter-from-w-h-william-henry-smyth-to-p-m-peter-mark-roget, accessed on 18 April 2026
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Unpublished paper, 'An account of some operations executed at Cape Frio [Cabo Frio] by the officers and crew of HMS Algerine, for the purpose of raising part of the stores etc lost in HMS Thetis' by Commander J F F [John Frederick Fitzgerald] De Roos
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Archived papers: volume 18, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1833-1834
1834 Reference number: AP/18
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