[NAUTICAL] Autograph Letter Signed. 1 ½pp.Havana, April 10, 1829. 8 X 10". Joshua Smith to Enoch Silby with integral address leaf. Smith writes of a storm at sea in his voyage from Havre to Havana, Cuba: "! have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival ... after an uncommonly dull passage of fifty tow days from Havre ... On Feb 25th when in a violent gale from the northward and heavy sea we were scudding under a close reef fore top sail one of the wheel rope bolts in the deck broke ... shifted the ballast and everything else that we could move ... we should probably have lost it all ... " An wild account of the raging seas and wind follows. Later Smith details future business matters in New Orleans and mentions " ... the Ship will probably carry trenty four hundred bones ... " In Fine condition.
