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K004 - Records of the Legge family of Sandwell and Patshull, Barons Dartmouth, Earls of Dartmouth
- D(W)1778 - Papers of the Legge Family, Earls of Dartmouth
  - III - Public Office

Located At	Staffordshire Record Office
Level	Item
Alt Ref No	D(W)1778/III/320
Title	L Valtravers to [Earl of Dartmouth]
Date	30 Dec 1774
Description	Salisbury Street, adjoining the Adelphi "The Honourable Judge Barrington (the first proposer of a Polar Voyage attempted by the Honorable Captain Phipps, and whom I have since brought into a direct correspondence with B Engel of Berne) has lately convinced the impartial and unprejudiced part of our Royal Society, by innumerable instances of the navigability of the Polar Seas, far beyond the non plus ultra of Captain Wood cast on the shore of Nova Zembla and of Captain Phipps, stuck fast on the icy straits of Spitzbergen, his irresistible proofs entirely corroborate B Engel's assertions and render them still more deserving his Majesty's attention" For full description see HMC 15th Report Appendix 1