BASKER, Edward
342/343
Bristol 10th August 1819
Sir,
Understanding that Government has in view a project for encouraging the emigration of our industrious but necessitous countrymen to the Cape of Good Hope, and having learnt that all applications from individuals wishing to take advantage of this laudable offer should be made to you, I take the libert therefore of thus applying for instructions as to the manner in which I might obtain a passage to the above mentioned place of settlement and I most earnestly hope that altho’ a stranger to you my name may be included in the list of those whom you have already selected.
It may be necessary to state that I am a young single man extremely anxious to obtain my livelihood by industry, have a good constitution and having resided for some months at a farm house am enabled pretty well to undertake the duties of husbandry.
I take the liberty of requesting an early answer and have the honour to be Sir
Your very obt hum svt
Edward BASKER