A typescript letter (with brief manuscript end-note), dated 25 October 1928, from W. G. Perrin of the Society for Nautical Research to an undisclosed recipient enclosing a transcript, c. 1823, of a letter, dated 1 August 1823, written aboard HMS Fury by William Harvey Hooper, ship's purser. HMS Fury, under the captaincy of William Edward Parry, was on an exploratory voyage to seek out the Northwest Passage.
Hooper's letter contains a sketch map of part of the voyage (f. 6) and a table containing meteorological data (f. 11). The material also includes typescript notes relating to HMS Fury, HMS Hecla and Captain Parry.