Letter written by Lieutenant-Commander Charles G Grylls to his father Reverend Henry Grylls.

A Letter written by Lieutenant-Commander Charles G Grylls, HMS FANCY, Ghenitehi, Sea of Azov, to his father Reverend Henry Grylls, Vicar of St. Neot, Cornwall with envelope. It concerns his actions as lieutenant commander of the gunboat FANCY, tender ship to the CORNWALLIS (60 guns). He writes about being constantly hard at work; the weather being cold with constant gales of wind ‘which in our little gunboats is no joke I can tell you, for we are like halftide rocks in a sea way; hard work and cold one may get on with, but when wet comes in too and where to dry ones clothes tain’t so pleasant.’ Grylls’s main task is ‘burning, sinking and destroying’ along the coastline, wherever he can.