Percy Edwards (1870-1889), midshipman and Anne Edwards (1840-1908) his mother: letters (33) documenting his loss at sea on the Bay of Cadiz in 1888/9 on a voyage from Sydney to San Francisco, and the attempts by Anne to obtain news on her son’s disappearance 1884-1889
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