| Description | Letters and copies of letters between Ronald M Butler (of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments) and Sarah Pearson, and between Sarah Pearson and Roger A Morriss of the National Maritime Museum, regarding the journal of Captain Thomas Smith (see E S PEARSON/1/7/2/1 for the original) which was judged to be of historical interest due to it's relevance to the First Opium War.
Also two folios of handwritten notes on the biographies of Thomas Smith and his son, also Thomas Smith, establishing whether it was the father or son to whom the records related. |