Four autograph letters signed or in the third person, two to Captain Robert Fanshawe, Commissioner of Plymouth Dockyard, both written in 1793 when Admiral Howe was Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet; in the first offering reassurance – "you expressed some uneasiness on account of a delay in the conveyance of my Letters by the Post, which in the want of more timely information of Articles requisite for the Fleet, might have the appearance of less attention given in your Department, than it is your character as well as inclination ever to be justly charged with" (subscribed with Fanshawe's draft reply), in the second thanking Fanshawe for information about "the situation of the Rocks within the Eddistone" and for supplying the wants of the Channel Fleet – "The marks [on the chart of the Eddistone Rocks] however, seem still to require further correction, for the reasons you mention; objects on the Land differing so much as it often happens, when seen from a lower or more elevated Station at Sea. Our weather has been such lately, as to render it peculiarly necessary to keep off as much as possible from friendly, as well as hostile Shores. But whilst it has lain us under the necessity of giving you much trouble for supplying our losses & defects, it had given us repeated opportunities to notice, the peculiar zeal & ability manifested (and in consequence of your letter received this moment from the Alfred, I must add – foresight) in providing for our wants at the Port of Plymouth"; one to Admiral Lord Keith, wishing him "every happy occurrence in your attachment to the Channel Fleet" and enquiring after a young man by the name of Mudge, son of the late master of the Charlotte; the fourth letter to Mrs Wood, extending to her an elaborately-worded compliment, 5 pages, in fine fresh condition, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frames), 4to, the Charlotte, Torbay and Grafton Street, 1773, 1793 and 1797