India.- HMS Grampus.- Elliott (William, officer on board HMS Grampus) Long Autograph Letter signed to his sister A Elliott in Portsmouth, 10pp. & address panel, 200 x 160mm., Bombay Harbour, 4th July 1806, expressing his sorrow at the lack of letters from home, his consolation in literature, hoping his family and friends are well, and searching for news from a newly arrived ship, "The Woolwich store ship arrived... I went on board hopeing to have some satisfaction. I saw a parcel for a brother officer who came out in Culloden now in Lancaster (Gilborne whose mother lives beyond the Halfway Houses or at New Town [Portsmouth]) but at that time I had heard that the Lancaster had saild for England. I then took the liberty of breaking it open and found in it a Steels List and a Newspaper (the Hampshire Telegraph)... I read of the death of a Mrs Marder relict of Capt Marder of Royal Marines who it was thought died from eating some of the berries of the deadly night shade in mistake near Bath... . However I met with that... ship Cornwallis... & I repackd them and then gave them to Mr Watson for Mr Gilborne as he told me the Lancaster was to return to take home the March Convoy for 1807", folds, slightly creased, small tear where opened.