NAM.2002-01-251-17

Manuscript letter with typed transcript from Thomas Applewhaite at Holborn, London to William Lee, later Lieutenant Colonel, at Hartwell, near Aylesbury, April 1780 (c). The letter tells him with great pleasure that he has left Harrow and is going to the Academy at Chelsea to study Merchant Accounts and French, then returning to the West Indies. From a collection of 112 letters and envelopes addressed to Lt Col William Lee, 5th Baronet, 16th (or The Queen’s) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, 1749-1810. Also includes photocopies of other letters from the same correspondence.