| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Includes letter from Edward Balfour explaining what items of food on the navy roll are; the diet of the sick in all European hospitals in the Bombay Presidency, 1827; rations of troops in the West Indies [Jamaica], comparing white and black troops; and victually of the navy, including an extract from Bengal General Orders, 1840. An annotation by Poole states that the documents were supplied by Balfour. |