Sarah Wilmer, Sheen Lane, Mortlake, to Ozias Humphry, High Road, Knightsbridge

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/5/102

Title

Sarah Wilmer, Sheen Lane, Mortlake, to Ozias Humphry, High Road, Knightsbridge

Date

5 Dec [1801]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

She offers her family's thanks for his testimony in support of her late lamented brother, concerning the business on which she wrote to Mr. Penneck. Their distress was heightened by the nature of the last letter from her brother, where he detailed his suffered after "a stroke of the sun" in India. She is persoanlly acquainted with any of the Directors and needs a friend to help their cause.

Mrs Whitmore has died at Surinam.