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Letter, 'Update on Endeavour voyage' from James Cook to Charles Morton

Reference number: L&P/5/115

Date: 20 November 1768

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Sent from Rio de Janeiro [Brazil].

Subject: Correspondence

Read 9 November 1769.

Reference number
L&P/5/115
Earliest possible date
20 November 1768
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Cook

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James Cook, Letter, 'Update on Endeavour voyage' from James Cook to Charles Morton, 20 November 1768, L&P/5/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_115/letter-update-on-endeavour-voyage-from-james-cook-to-charles-morton, accessed on 04 December 2023

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