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home with a cargo ‘very richly fraught with gold, silver, pearls and precious stones’, valued at over £100,000,* one of the most profitable of all the voyages of discovery.
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Almost exactly a year after the petition had been drafted, on 23 September 1600, the subscribers were finally given the go-ahead: ‘It was her Majesty’s pleasure’, they were told, ‘that they shuld proceade in ther purpose … and goe forward in the said viage.’
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits;
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Yes, if I am not allowed to write, I shall perish.
Shaun Usher • Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
One hour’s writing daily is my allowance for the next few weeks; and having hoarded it this morning I may spend part of it now, since L. is out and I am much behindhand with the month of January. I note however that this diary writing does not count as writing, since I have just re-read my year’s diary and am much struck by the rapid haphazard gall
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