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Letter from Bigongiari to Samuel Swaffield

12 November 1853

From: 1853 To: 1853

“…While on our way to Sardinia the Genl proposed I should be the paymaster general & the proposal was accepted by the others – thinking I could not refuse the proposal, I replied that I should accept provided I was to keep no account whatever, having not the necessary things to do it & knowing to a penny the money I had with me, I added I shall put down the amounts you give me & when ever I shall ask you for more. The reply was we will not trouble you with any accounts…but I had actually from Porto-Terres in Sardinia to Genoa paid his & my expense with my own money…when I asked him for more money he said, I wish you had asked me sooner for I have packed up all my things & added pay with your own money till we reach Genoa…I was out of pocket £10.10s…I laid before him the above statement…[he] began to complain of his having spent too much & saying why I had not kept an account of what I paid…”

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Bigongiari,
Swaffield, Samuel,
Fox, Charles Richard (1796-1873)

CORRESPONDENCE, Cagliari (Province), Sardinia, Genoa