Sir. In Answer to. your Letter of the 4th Inst with their Lordships directions for me to receive on board the Actaeon a quantity of Jackets for the use of the Marines at Boston. ー I beg leave Sir to signify to you for their Lordships information, that it will be impossible for us to carry them out without a very great risk of damaging the Cloathing, the Ship is so very full already, that we cannot find room enough to put away our own Slops, ー I have the honor to be with all imaginable respect Sir
Xpher Atkins
Actaeon Spithead the 8th Novr 1775
1. PRO, Admiralty 1/1445.