To: Mr. Manigault
In
South Carolina
Hon’d Sir Bristol 5th June 1750
We arrived here last Sunday after a pleasant though dangerous Passage, for off of the Banks of Newfoundland we met with several monstrous Islands of Ice, which with the Help of a Gale of Wind, had like to have shortened our Passage some hundred leagues, and indeed consider the Darkness of the Night twas great good Fortune, we had not all perished.
Mr. Corbett & myself intend to set out for London tomorrow Morning from whence I shall take care to write by the first Opportunity for you & Mamma, to whom pray give my Duty; I would write to her now but as this will let her know I’m well, and there is no Ship to sail from hence soon I hope she’ll excuse.
Your dutiful Son,
Peter Manigault
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