Dear Sir
It is intended to send Lord Dartmouths Dispatches to Sir James Wright & Governor Tonyn by the Hawke which is now on her passage from the Nore to Spithead ー If you wish to send Duplicates of Your Dispatches to Lord Wm Campbell & Governor Martin (which are on board the Syren) they may go by the Hawke Sloop. ー
I shall send away tomorrow Your Dispatches for Boston & the Northern Colonies by the Triton instead of the Actaeon ー I am, Dear Sir, [&c.]
PhP Stephens
Admiralty 10 Novr 1775
1. PRO, Colonial Office, 5/122. Pownall was deputy Secretary of State.