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No. 14
Bounty at St Helens [near Spithead]
Decr. 10th 1787
Dear Sir
I have received the favor of your letter dated the 6th Inst. and shall at all times most sincerely thank you for your very kind endeavors to serve me. I can only say the chief pleasure I had to undertake and now have to perform this Voyage is knowing you to be concernd in it, and I should be sorry the success of it should be riskd with any other person.
I had supposed from the polite manner Lord Howe behaved to me when I took leave of him that I stood a fair chance of promotion the first time there was any, and as I presumd to consider with respect to service Mr Moorsom's situation and mine nearly similar I look'd for it only at the time of his advancement which now I am told has taken place, and is certainly a violation of all justice with respect to me, who they have now kept, to pass a remote part of the Globe at an unseasonable time of the year from mere neglect, and myself may be subject to blame for what no man can accomplish. This is a glaring circumstance
[A Robert Moorson was later to become Admiral]