Modern note, in the place of, quote ‘a letter from Midshipman Hoste … AGAMEMNON, 24 August 1794' (whereabouts of original letter unkown); Letter from John Weatherhead to Dixon Hoste (William's father) about William breaking his leg, dated 22 August 1796 (At the age of 17, Weatherhead joined the Royal Navy and was, along with William Hoste, one of a group of boys from Norfolk who went to sea in the year of 1793, and who served under Horatio Nelson. (White, 2002, Nelson Encyclopedia));
Letter from Gardiner to Dixon regarding William’s recent action, 3 June 1796; Note by Alex Wilson, 1805; Letter from Lord Radstock 27 July 1811; Copy of letter from Captain of the French Frigate Danae regarding a collision between FLORA and AMPHION, March 1811; Letter to Rear Admiral Fremantle 19 June 1813; Two page letter beginning ‘I beg leave to state a case to your Lordship’, no date, by Hoste, unfinished, regarding 2 seamen who committed a crime on the MUTINE in 1801, one of whom has applied to the Admiralty 15 years later for his pay and prize money; Letter from William a Court, 1 July 1818.