The letters are dated 1800 and 1801. The 1801 letter comes with a typed note which reads "Addressed to: Mr Jon Linnell, Silverstone Near Towcester, Northampton Shear. Post marked March 14th 1801". The letter itself is written in a shaky hand, signed G. Capern (?) "in the Yarmath Aspitel" (Yarmouth Hospital). The writer says he is very ill, that he was impressed into service previously aboard the LEYDEN (?), and is asking Linnell for ten pounds "if not agreeabel send what you can for I have no mony". The 1800 letter is signed J. Linnell, and concerns a loan of fifteen pounds he intends to borrow from his uncle, but does not come with a note saying to whom it was addressed. The letters were found in "an old shop in Bletchley" according to Luton Museum and Art Gallery.