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Letterbook (contemporary copies of letters sent and received) kept by the Honourable Captain Walter Cecil Carpenter.

Between 1871 and 1872, the period the letterbook covers, Carpenter captained HMS BRISTOL and HMS ARIADNE.

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ID:	LBK/23
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1871-1872
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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