[Admiralty Office] 7h September 1775.
Sir
A Box containing Fifty Impressions of Mr Des Barres Chart of the Harbour of Boston, with as many Copies of the Nautical Directions, addressed to you having been sent to Commissioner [James] Gambier to be sent by the Phoenix, or if she should be sailed, by the first Ship that proceeds from Spithead to join you; I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you therewith, and to recommend it to you to distribute the said Charts and Nautical Directions to such of the Ships and Vessels under your Command as you shall judge proper. I am &c
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sent to Commissr Gambier, by the Portsmouth Coach
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/550, 112.