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56_Masson_SH| identifiant | 56_Masson_SH |
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| fait partie de | Masson |
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| est validé | oui |
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| date | 1815/08/17 00:00 |
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| titre | Lettre du docteur O'Meara à l'amiral Keith |
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| texte en markdown | <h1><span style="font-family:Chivo;font-size:60%;line-height:1;"><b>56_Masson_SH -</b> DOCTEUR O'MEARA À L'AMIRAL KEITH</span></h1>
<h2 data-kind="letter-context;" style="text-align: right; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal">His Majesty's Ship Bellerophon, Torbay 17<sup>th</sup> of August 1815</h2>
My Lord,
Application having been made to me yesterday by Count Bertrand to accompany General Napoleon Bonaparte to St Helena in quality of surgeon (as the surgeon who embarked with him in France is unwilling to proceed farther) I beg to inform Your Lordship that I am willing to accept that situation (provided it meets with your Lordship’s approbation) and also on the following conditions viz. That it shall be permitted me to resign the above situation should I find it not consonant to my wishes, on giving due notice of my intention thereof. That such time as I shall serve in that situation shall be allowed to count as so much time served in full pay in His Majesty's Navy, or to be indemnified in some way for such loss of time as surgeon on full pay as it may occasion to me. That I am not to be considered in any wise depending upon, or to be subservient to or paid by the aforesaid Napoleon Bonaparte, but as a British officer employed by the British Government and lastly, that I may be informed as soon as circumstances will admit of what salary I am to have, and in what manner and from whom I am to receive it.
I have the honour to remain My Lord With the greatest respect etc.[^1]
Signed Barry E. O'Meara
Surgeon H.M. Ship Bellerophon
Copy *Hudson Lowe*
[^1]: Copie d'expédition, Bibliothèque Thiers, fonds Masson, carton 8, fol. 233. |
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