BARROW
(Sir John, 1764-1848, Secretary of the Admiralty)
Fine Autograph Letter signed to Sir Graham HAMOND
(1779-1862, Admiral of the Fleet) saying that he has "laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 7th December ... enclosing on from Commodore Mason, on the subject of the storehouses at Valparaiso. I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to cause one store only to be continued until further orders ...", 1 side folio, Admiralty, 9th March
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
39681
£200
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BARROW
(Sir John, 1764-1848, Secretary of the Admiralty) and George ELLIOT (1784-1863, Admiral, served in the Napoleonic Wars and the First Opium War)
Fine Document signed, printed with the details filled in by hand by Barrow, to Mr James Mayning
Boatswain of H.M.S. Donegal appointing him "Boatswain of His Majesty's Ship Talavera ...", from the Commissioners of the Lord High Admiral, signed at the end by Barrow, Elliot and Troubridge, 1 side folio with blank address leaf annotated Talavera N7, Admiralty, 19th March
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
39673
£225
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A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER
[BARROW
(Sir John, 1764-1848, Secretary of the Admiralty)]
Interesting manuscript notebook by Laura BATTY, (1832-1909) his granddaughter
entitled "A Brief Sketch of the Life of the late Sir John Barrow Bart", starting by talking about the Hoad Monument "It stands not only as a memorial of a 'Self made man' whose memory is still cherished in this Native place, but is also of great use as a landmark to Sailors on that Coast ...", she goes on to speak of his childhood and his love of gardening and planting trees, on his 80th birthday "a Flag was hoisted in the Rowan Tree which he had planted when a boy ...", it goes on to recount how he and a friend managed to get a Sunday School started in Ulverstone, she continues with his after school career "he was sent, with Mr Walkers nephew, to take an accurate and complete survey of the very extensive estates of Conished Priory. He says he learnt much in this way and a few years afterwards wrote a book on Mathematical Instruments, and was not a little delighted to send the first fruits of his pen, £20 to his mother ...", she quotes Barrow as saying that he always had "an inherent and inveterate hatred of idleness ..." and so he studied "Mathematics, Magnetism and Astronomy. He then at the age of fourteen he had an offer to Superintend the workmen and to keep the account of a large Iron Factory in Liverpool ...", a post he continued in after the death of the owner Mr Walker, "it is interesting here to remark that he made acquaintance with Leonardi, who came to the factory to ask if he could be supplied with iron filings in order to inflate his Balloon with inflammable gas, the first he believed that had been sent up in England, at least with any persons in it. 'This new species of flight into the air took hold of my fancy and I prevailed on Leonardi to let me accompany him, to which he made no objection provided the balloon would rise with both which was a point he could not say however when the day of trial came the balloon was found wanting it rose tardily with Leonardi alone and I was to be content to remain below' ...", later he met "Captain Potts who had been recommended to take a trip to Greenland for his health. This gentleman offered to take John Barrow as his companion in his whale ship to the frozen seas. 'Nothing ... could have occurred more opportune or more consonant with my wishes' and this, no doubt, commenced his ardour for Arctic Expeditions ...", the text continues about his growing naval career and navigational skills, how he took a job teaching mathematics at Greenwich, then, "through the influence of Sir George Staunton ... he had the good fortune to have his name enrolled as Comptroller of the Household to Lord Macartney in his Embassy to China, who desired him to look after and hasten the completion of several mathematical, Philosophical, and scientific instruments and works of Art, to be taken as presents to the Emperor of China ... he left Portsmouth 1792, and returned to England in 1794, having travelled some twelve or thirteen hundred miles through the heart of the Chinese Empire ..." the journal follows his travels to the Cape of Good Hope, where he explored the unmapped country and enquired into "the quarrels which were constantly taking place between the Boars and the Kaffirs ..." and he was pleased to find some Moravian Missionaries with a well orderer colony, "Six hundred Hottentots had been brought together by these good people, and the number was daily increasing ... member of the English poor are not half so well off ... Many learn trades, and are paid as soon as they can earn wages ...", she then relates more of his journey and problems with lack of water, Barrow said that he had "travelled every part of the Colony of that Cape of Good Hope, and visited the several countries of the Kaffirs, the Hottentots and the Bosjesmen, performing a journey exceeding three thousand miles on horseback, on foot and very rarely in a covered waggon ....", Lord Macartney said of his journey that "his map must be particularly valuable as it is the only one that can be at all depended on ...", there is then an account of an uprising of the Boars that he took over and a brief outline of the rest of his life, his marriage, his publications and his appointments, 31 sides 8vo., Ridgmount House, no date but circa
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
39690
£1750
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EXPERIMENTS ON HORSE POWER
BASTARD
(Lieutenant, Lieutanant and Commander in the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars)
Small collection of Autograph material addressed to Lieutenant Bastard R.N.
comprising two long letters from James Brown, the first says that "in looking over the memo of Firebrands Experiments, I perceive the Cause why your friends in their mode of reckoning came so near the truth as to the result of the Speed per hour, and if you will again look over the times you will perceive, the up and down Exp. vary only about a minute. The nearer therefore those approximate the closer will this mode approach the truth. But, now take and Extreme case ... suppose you had continued your trials ... you would have had the current stronger with and against you, consequently you would have completed the mile down in less time and the one up in a longer period ..." and then he calculates the average speeds, and ends that "you may in case of further conversation entrap your opponent by suggesting a case similar to the above ...", the next letter hopes he has recovered from his Party and tells him that he will send the tools he has ordered on to him at "Falmouth. This arises from their only having been ordered by the Admiralty on the 12th Inst ... Boiler complete with Steam Box & Chimney ... Engines complete ... Coal Box ... Duplicate Piston ..." and gives their total weight, together with a manuscript account headed "Horse Power", "Consider that a horses power is equal to raising 33,000 lbs through the space of one foot in one minute, and on this data the power of the Steam Engine is calculated ... each square inch of the Piston is supposed equal to 7 lbs ..." he goes on to give examples and calculations relating to Safety Valves, Injection of water, Paddle Wheels and Coals per hour, in total 6 sides 4to., the letters no place and 25 Jewry Street, no date and 27th October 1832 together with his handwritten notebook with pages of different notes with pages titled "Tide Table", "Magnetic Bearings & Distance in Nautical Miles" and "City of Edinburgh and James Watt Engines 26 Nov. 1821" which has listings of the various strokes of the engines, the paddle wheel and the rings and then the original of the manuscript account on Horses Powerand the calculations from the experiments, the leatherbound notebook 4½" x 3", 34 sides are written on, May
a few pages from the notebook removed
Item Date:
1829
Stock No:
39457
£775
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"SHALL I SEND YOUR DOG DOWN TO YOU"
BASTARD
(Lieutenant, Lieutanant and Commander in the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars)
Small collection of material relating to Captain Richard Bastart R. N., including an Autograph Letter addressed to him
on H. M.. S. Flamer, saying that he had seen him arrive "at Woolwich in the Napier, I have sent this line to ask you if I shall send your Dog down to you. He is in high preservation and I think you would like him. He is what you may call a clear color viz black and tan, rather large, and a capital watch dog, but at the same time very good natured ..." asking him to send him a line and he will get him deliver "or perhaps I had better send him to my own livery stables and any of your party coming up might send there for him ...", 3 sides 8vo., with integral autograph address, Taplow Court, Maidenhead, 21st January 1834,
together with a later printed document with the details filled in by hand from the Bank of England concerning a transfer of stock, 19th February 1853 and an autograph envelope of 1862
Item Date:
1834
Stock No:
39805
£175
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