Docketed "1625 / New England."
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
Reflecting on the disaffection in the London Company aforeseeinging the failure of the plantation at Pautext [i.e., Plymouth]. Discussing the investments in his voyage and planning his voyage for the next year, resolving to "adventure this ways again, but never to have any other but myself to be the chief manager of it." Mentioning other financial matters and asking him to send some goods to New England for trading with the Native Americans. With a post script sending a tobacco pipe, "being the first and rarest that I ever saw," and noting that "it became a king's pipe in this country."