Letter from Francis Beaufort, Admiralty to Edward Sabine Beaufort thanks Sabine for a copy of his letter to the ‘Ast R’, [Royal Astronomical Society]. Beaufort has been trying to find passage in ‘the report of the visitors’. Beaufort asks Sabine if he able to relay the contents of that letter. Beaufort informs Sabine that the government is now passing their estimates. 13 December 1848