Four letters to Lt Col C Bird, Deputy Colonial Secretary, Colonial Office, from William Warre, 1, 2 and 3 Sep 1818.
Copies. Relates to public claims on the estate of Capt Thomas Sheridan, Colonial Paymaster, draws attention to the apparent embezzlement of funds by Sheridan’s clerk Mr John Benn and a loss on a foreign exchange transaction by Lt Ledingham, acting paymaster of the Cape Regiment.
One of 101 papers in the collection relating to William Warre’s period as Deputy Quarter Master General, Cape of Good Hope, 1814-1819.
From a collection of 566 papers of Lt Gen Sir William Warre (1784-1853) relating to his military career, 1807-1851.