Letters and papers, 1781-1810, of Morgan Thomas, Norfolk Street, the Strand, London, and William Makepeace Thackeray, grandfather of the novelist W. M. Thackeray, executors appointed under the will of Hopkin Walters, surgeon with the East India Company in Bengal, who died at sea in 1781. The documents include references to the seizure of the testator's original will by the authorities in Cadiz and an attempt to recover his effects and part of his fortune in gold and silver from the ship Diana.