Powell to Storer, reporting the return of his ship from the river La Plata, and conditions in Montevideo

Abstract

This item forms part of a larger collection which contains a series of letters written from Commander Levin M. Powell of the USS John Adams to Commodore George W. Storer. Powell comments on the ships supplies and condition, his sailing orders, and the slave trade, while the ship was off the coast of Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro.